…a musician of broad vision.
                                                        -- Massimiliano Damerini


New York City has two of the greatest improvising pianists, Cecil Taylor and Tonino Miano. An Italian who lives in the Bronx, Miano has developed a style that comes out of both the Western classical and jazz traditions, and plays with fearsome technique, intelligence, and passion."  
             -- G. Grella, The Brooklyn Rail

 

Among the best new talents of 2013!  
                                                                                      --Musica Jazz Magazine

"...a very wise pontillist...
                -- Mario Gamba, Il Manifesto

                                                        "...he gives a splendid and definitve proof of his eclectisism..." 
                                                                                                                       --  Ettore Garzia, Percorsi Musicali
 
"...the rigor and grace of Miano are assured reflections of his embrace of piano repertoire..."
                                                                                                                                  -- Clifford Allen, Ni Kantu
 

"Miano’s virtuosity is all over the piano. [...] He never lacks for textural and
gestural ideas that contribute a sense of designed space to the improvisations..."
--The Whole Note