Nicolosi has played recitals and as a soloist with prestigious orchestras in some of the most famous concert halls in the world:
Queen Elizabeth Hall and
Wigmore Hall in
London,
Victoria Hall of Geneva, Radio Nacional in
Madrid,
Salle Gaveau in
Paris,
Teatro alla Scala and Sala Verdi in
Milan, Teatro dell’Opera and
Accademia di Santa Cecilia in
Rome,
Teatro di San Carlo in
Naples,
Herkulessaal in
Munich,
Brahmssaal in
Vienna,
Kennedy Center in
Washington,
Megaron in
Athens among others. He has toured in
Iceland, the
United States,
Argentina,
Russia,
Japan,
China,
Canada, and
Singapore, and is a regular guest at festivals such as the Festival dei Due Mondi in
Spoleto, Rossini Opera Festival, Ravenna Festival, Festival di
Ravello, Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo, Taormina Teatro Musica, Settimane Musicali in
Stresa, Estate Musicale Sorrentina, Settembre Musica in
Turin, Leuciana Festival, Marathon Internacional in
Seville, Festival de Musique in
Menton, Rencontres Musicales en Artois, Weimar Kunstfest, Budapest Liszt Festival, and many others. The authoritative
Corriere della Sera critic and musicologist
Paolo Isotta wrote of Nicolosi on the occasion of the recent recording of two rare concerts of
Paisiello:
(...) listening to him playing is enough to remind us that no one today can match his luminosity of sound, his ability to draw out the song-like legato qualities of a keyboard instrument ... he has acquired a reputation as one of our greatest living pianists ... The great Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli performed eighteenth-century works, his inspiration came principally from the same source as Nicolosi’s, but perhaps lacked some of the latter’s lucidity and coherence. Nicolosi is now perfecting the process begun by Michelangeli. His recordings include works of
Thalberg,
Mozart (complete piano
variations),
Rachmaninoff,
Clara Schumann,
Scarlatti, and
Paisiello (complete piano concertos). Nicolosi's website provides a complete list. == Reception ==