David Salvage (b. 1978) is an American composer and pianist who lives in Bologna, Italy. He has composed for orchestra, film, choir, and ensembles of all kinds and has received over a hundred performances at venues ranging from the Juilliard School to the British Institute of Florence. His music can be as familiar as songs you’ve heard a thousand times or as strange as the latest musical novelty. What he strives for is not so much stylistic consistency as a faithfulness to human experience in all its variety.

Taking its name from the Etruscan word for the area around Bologna, Italy, Felsina is a love letter from American composer-pianist David Salvage to his adoptive city. By turns tender and irreverent, fanciful and sober, Salvage takes the listener on excursions around the city, into the surrounding countryside, and back into distant time periods, casting this ancient city’s richness and depth into sound. Salvage’s playing style is simple and direct, drawing the listener into his musical world: a Bologna observed, lived, and imagined.