Jury President
ANNA KRAVTCHENKO
Italy
Described by the Dutch newspaper Het Parool as “the miracle of the keyboard,” Anna Kravtchenko made a name for herself on the international piano scene after winning unanimous first prize at the prestigious “Ferruccio Busoni” International Piano Competition in 1992, when she was only 16 years old.
Anna Kravtchenko
Described by the Dutch newspaper Het Parool as “the miracle of the keyboard,” Anna Kravtchenko made a name for herself on the international piano scene after winning the unanimous first prize at the prestigious “Ferruccio Busoni” International Competition in 1992, when she was only 16 years old. Throughout his career he has played for major European musical institutions such as: the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Goldener Saal of the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in the “Meesterpianisten serie,” the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Sala Verdi in Milan for the “Musical Evenings,” the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Ruhr Klavier-Festival, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the La Roque D’Antheron Festival, Wigmore Hall in London, Victoria Hall in Geneva, the “Piano Aux Jacobins” Festival in Toulouse, the Bergen Festival, the Brescia and Bergamo Festivals, to name a few. She has also performed in Japan, South Africa, the United States and Canada. She has played with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra, Essen Philharmonic, London Royal Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, etc. In 2006 he recorded a CD for DECCA Records, with a program entirely devoted to Chopin. In the same year Anna Kravtchenco won the International Web Concert Hall Competition in the USA. Her latest CD for DECCA dedicated to Liszt was reviewed with five stars and was awarded the title “Cd of the Month” in major Italian magazines including Amadeus, Classic Voice, Suonare News and Musica. Anna Kravtchenko, after being a lecturer at the Imola Piano Academy for 15 years, has been teaching piano at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano since 2013. She studied at the Imola Academy where she had been admitted “ad honorem.”
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Anna Kravtchenko
Italy
Anna Kravtchenko
Described by the Dutch newspaper Het Parool as “the miracle of the keyboard,” Anna Kravtchenko made a name for herself on the international piano scene after winning the unanimous first prize at the prestigious “Ferruccio Busoni” International Competition in 1992, when she was only 16 years old. Throughout his career he has played for major European musical institutions such as: the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Goldener Saal of the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in the “Meesterpianisten serie,” the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Sala Verdi in Milan for the “Musical Evenings,” the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Ruhr Klavier-Festival, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the La Roque D’Antheron Festival, Wigmore Hall in London, Victoria Hall in Geneva, the “Piano Aux Jacobins” Festival in Toulouse, the Bergen Festival, the Brescia and Bergamo Festivals, to name a few. She has also performed in Japan, South Africa, the United States and Canada. She has played with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra, Essen Philharmonic, London Royal Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, etc. In 2006 he recorded a CD for DECCA Records, with a program entirely devoted to Chopin. In the same year Anna Kravtchenco won the International Web Concert Hall Competition in the USA. Her latest CD for DECCA dedicated to Liszt was reviewed with five stars and was awarded the title “Cd of the Month” in major Italian magazines including Amadeus, Classic Voice, Suonare News and Musica. Anna Kravtchenko, after being a lecturer at the Imola Piano Academy for 15 years, has been teaching piano at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano since 2013. She studied at the Imola Academy where she had been admitted “ad honorem.”
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Jurors 2025
Fu Hong
China
Fu Hong
Fu Hong is an associate professor at the China Conservatory of Music (CCMusic) and a renowned pianist. After studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she moved to Germany to further her musical education at the National Conservatory of Music in Karlsruhe, where she received the Konzert Examen for solo piano and the Kuenstlerische Ausbildung for chamber piano. Notable teachers in Shanghai were KANG Quefei, ZHANG Yuqing, XIAO Ming and WU Leyi. During his stay in Germany, he studied with W. Genuit, D. Joffe, D. Bashkirow and A. Braginsky. Fu Hong has won numerous prizes in international solo piano and piano chamber music competitions, including the Fostering Young Musicians Association in Hannover, Germany (1990), the Richard Wagner Association prize (1995), the first prize of the 8th International Piano Chamber Music Competition in Paris (1996). Since 2007, he has been teaching piano not only for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, but also at CCMusic Middle School. In 2009, he established postgraduate courses in piano chamber music. He is also a Master Tutor at CCMusic. Her students have won numerous prizes in piano competitions in China and abroad. Fu Hong has performed on various stages in Europe and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition, she has collaborated with many famous conductors such as Peter Eotvos, YE Cong, YANG Youqing and JIN Ye. He has made recordings at Germany Southwest Broadcast (SWR2), playing Schumann, Chopin, Debussy and Prokofiev. In 2010 he formed the Yu piano duo with Yu Meina and also formed the Transcendent ensemble for chamber music. Together with Professor P. Eicher of the Mannheim National Conservatory of Music, Fu Hong founded the Mannheim Chinese-German Piano Summer Camp in 2009 to foster musical exchange between China and Germany. In addition, she has been invited to perform and give lectures at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, CNU, MUC National Piano Teachers Association and Heilongjiang Music Association. She has been invited as a judge for Chinese and international piano competitions such as the Wiesbaden International Piano Competition (Germany), the Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition (Portugal) and the Friuli Venezia Giulia International Piano Competition (Italy). In recent years, Fu Hong has recorded several video tutorials and published in academic journals such as Piano Art and Shanghai Conservatory Music Journal.
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Joseph Andaloro
Italy
Joseph Andaloro
Born in Palermo in 1982, he began an intense concert activity at a very young age, offering audiences a vast repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to modern and contemporary music. His transcription of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” for two pianos and two cellos met with sincere critical approval and great public acclaim at the sold-out evening of the first performance. He has been a guest at major festivals (Salzburger Festspiele, Ruhr Klavier, Spoleto Due Mondi, Bucharest Enescu, Ravello, “Chopin” Duszniki-Zdròj, A.B. Michelangeli in Brescia and Bergamo, “Al Bustan” Beirut, “Mehli-Mehta” Mumbai) and in some of the world’s most celebrated concert halls, including La Scala in Milan, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Gasteig in Munich, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall idi London, Santa Cecilia in Rome’s “Parco della Musica,” Rudolfinum Dvořák Hall in Prague, Simón Bolívar Amphitheater in Mexico City, Teatro Oriente in Santiago del Chile, Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, Esplanade Auditorium in Singapore, City Hall Concert Hall in Hong Kong, and so on. He regularly plays with renowned orchestras (London Philharmonic, Tokyo NHK Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Philharmonische Camerata Berlin, London Mozart Players, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) and great conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gianandrea Noseda, Andrew Parrott, Giuseppe Lanzetta; His collaborations with other acclaimed artists include those with Sarah Chang, Giovanni Sollima, Sergej Krylov, Anna Tifu, Svetlin Roussev, and John Malkovich. Winner of the First Prize in several of the most prestigious international piano competitions – including the “Ferruccio Busoni” in Bolzano, the London Piano Competition, Porto, Sendai, Hong Kong – in 2005 he was awarded the prize for artistic merit given by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. He has to his credit recordings for several record labels (Sony, Warner, Naxos, Fontec) and has been a guest on many Italian and foreign radio and television stations, such as NHK-BS2 Tokyo, BBC London, Radio France Musique, Amadeus 103.7 Buenos Aires, Classic FM Radio Allegro Johannesburg, RTSI Lugano, RDP Radiodifusão Portuguesa, Rai Radio3 Italia, German Radio SWR2, Vatican Radio, WRR Dallas Classical Radio, Hong Kong Radio 4, Singapore Symphony 92.4FM, Fresno Valley Public Radio, etc. Giuseppe Andaloro regularly gives masterclasses in Italy and abroad (mention must be made of his collaborations with Tokyo Showa University, Fresno California State University, International Keyboard Academy of Thailand, Kuala Lumpur Chopin Society, Hong Kong Chopin Society) and has been a jury member in several piano competitions.
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Muriel Chemin
France
Muriel Chemin
At the age of five, Muriel Chemin began her musical studies under Jean and Marguerite Manuel, graduating from the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris, in the class of Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi (Cortot’s pupil), later obtaining the Licence de Concert. He decided to specialize with Maria Tipo in Florence and later in Geneva at the Conservatoire de Musique, where he obtained the Premier Prix de Virtuosité then the Italian Diplôme with 10 cum laude and honorable mention. He gives numerous concerts in Paris at the Salle Gaveau, Salle Pleyel, the Théâtre de Paris and other cities in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, UK, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Chile and the US, where the artist performs not only as a soloist but also in piano duo, chamber music, and with orchestra, under such conductors as Árpád Gerecz, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Nicolas Rauss, Daniel Barda, David del Pino Klinge, Simon Over, and Nicolas Krauze… She participated in several integrals of the Sonatas and Concertos of Mozart and Beethoven, composers for whom she is unanimously regarded as one of the most convincing interpreters. Thanks to a first-rate musical personality, she was awarded First Prize at the Hennessy-Mozart International Competition in Paris, arousing the enthusiasm of the jury, especially President Paul Badura-Skoda. Even the great conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, hearing her in 1998 in the last three Beethoven sonatas, has expressions of strong admiration for the pianist. On the occasion of her concerts in France, the eminent critic Philippe van den Bosch speaks of Muriel Chemin as a performer of great personality and maturity. Gerard Honoré of Répertoire magazine emphasizes the splendid introspective qualities of the artist, who is able like few to restore the lines of musical thought in all their purity. Le Monde de la Musique appreciates the profound balance the performer demonstrates, combining rigor, spiritual richness and analytical skills. In Italy she has been a guest of prestigious musical institutions such as theOrchestra Regionale Toscana, the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, and the Auditorium Verdi in Milan in a duo with cellist Alain Meunier. In 2012, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth, he gave several concerts with his 12 etudes. He lives in Venice, where he teaches principal piano at the Conservatorio di Musica B. Marcello since 2014. He has always devoted much time to teaching, and many of his students have been awarded prizes in national and international competitions. His recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, in 2017 for the U.S. label Odradek, won great acclaim from the specialized press. For the same label, Muriel Chemin recorded Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas, released in 2022, which are honored in numerous international journals such as: Musicalifeiten, Le Monde, Diapason “5 Diapasons,” Artamag, Piano News, Zeitschrift Frankfurt, Mundoclassico, Classics Today, Le Devoir, “Grand Frisson” 2022 Audiophil-Magazine, Artamag’, Utmisol, FonoForum, “Clic 2022” Classicnews, International Piano. She is regularly invited to juries of international piano competitions.
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Pavel Gililov
Ukraine
Pavel Gililov
Born in Donetsk, southeastern Ukraine, he received his first piano lessons from his father, a music lover and amateur musician. Soon young Pavel was playing in public. He made his first appearance with an orchestra at the age of eight, and in his eleventh year he played the third piano concerto by the famous composer Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky so extraordinarily well that the great master invited him to study in St. Petersburg at the same school from which such talents as Boris Pergamenschikow, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Grigory Sokolov and many others emerged. During his studies, Pavel Gililov received great honors at the Russian Piano Competition in Moscow (1972) and the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1975). Gililov also showed exceptional skills as a teacher and became the youngest piano professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Pavel Gililov in 1978 applied to emigrate from Russua. He moved first to Austria and then to Cologne, Germany, where he taught. Shortly after his arrival in the West, Pavel Gililov won first prize at the Viotti competition in Vercelli, Italy. Pavel Gililov has played with the philharmonic orchestras of Leningrad, Moscow, and Warsaw; with the Polish Broadcast Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, Vienna Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra, RAI-Turin, Irish National Orchestra, and Detroit Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with such renowned conductors as Lawrence Foster, Andris Jansons, Valery Gergiev and James Conlon. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Vienna’s Musikverein, La Scala in Milan, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Barcelona’s Palao de la Musica, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Brussels’ Palais de Beaux-Art, Cologne’s Theatre in Buenos Aires, and countless others. Pavel Gililov’s recording career includes albums and CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Toshiba EMI, Virgin and Orpheus. Pavel Gililov is also guest of honor at major festivals such as Edinburgh, Newport, Schleswig Holstein and Rheingau; at the Salzburg and Ludwigsburg festivals and many others. He enthusiastically pursues projects with contemporary composers and has premiered many of their works. He founded the Gililov Piano Quartet. Pavel Gililov continues teaching. He is a professor at the University of Cologne,and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Many of his students are first prize winners. He serves on the jury in many international competitions. In 2005 Pavel Gililov founded the Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn, for which he is currently artistic director and jury president.
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Jurors 2026
Carles Lama
Spain
Carles Lama
Steinway artist and concert pianist, co-founder and director of the KNS Classical label and artistic director of several music cycles and festivals, Carles Lama has also earned a reputation as a mentor to a vast number of young talents. Along with higher studies in piano performance in Spain, Paris and the United States and directing the Girona Conservatory of Music from 2006 to 2012, he studied Music Business, Branding and Digital Marketing and founded Music Talent Lab, and presented workshops and lectures in several institutions in order to guide and enlighten musicians’ careers. At the same time, he has taught Master-Classes around the world and been a jury member of many renowned international competitions. He is a member of the acclaimed “Carles & Sofia piano duo” with his wife Sofia Cabruja, with whom they have performed all over the world, including venues such as Carnegie Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana, Sala Verdi or Teatro Solís, among others. They have been praised by audiences and critics as one of the best piano duos in the world. Their discography of more than 10 CDs includes brilliant and challenging four-hand masterpieces and orchestral transcriptions, as well as original and exclusive projects created by the duo, including the transcription of the opera “Goyescas” or a “Lieder Project,” featuring four-hand transcriptions of the Lieder repertoire of Brahms, Schumann and Schubert. Always committed to social needs, he received a UNICEF award for his humanitarian aid. In 2012, together with his wife, they founded Concerts4Good, Music on a Mission, an outreach project. And in 2020, they created their own foundation: the Carles & Sofia Music Foundation. He has been recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation and received the Golden Star for the Professional Excellence, the Golden Medal for the Merit at Work and the European Golden Cross.
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Fu Hong
China
Fu Hong
Fu Hong is an associate professor at the China Conservatory of Music (CCMusic) and a renowned pianist. After studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she moved to Germany to further her musical education at the National Conservatory of Music in Karlsruhe, where she received the Konzert Examen for solo piano and the Kuenstlerische Ausbildung for chamber piano. Notable teachers in Shanghai were KANG Quefei, ZHANG Yuqing, XIAO Ming and WU Leyi. During his stay in Germany, he studied with W. Genuit, D. Joffe, D. Bashkirow and A. Braginsky. Fu Hong has won numerous prizes in international solo piano and piano chamber music competitions, including the Fostering Young Musicians Association in Hannover, Germany (1990), the Richard Wagner Association prize (1995), the first prize of the 8th International Piano Chamber Music Competition in Paris (1996). Since 2007, he has been teaching piano not only for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, but also at CCMusic Middle School. In 2009, he established postgraduate courses in piano chamber music. He is also a Master Tutor at CCMusic. Her students have won numerous prizes in piano competitions in China and abroad. Fu Hong has performed on various stages in Europe and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition, she has collaborated with many famous conductors such as Peter Eotvos, YE Cong, YANG Youqing and JIN Ye. He has made recordings at Germany Southwest Broadcast (SWR2), playing Schumann, Chopin, Debussy and Prokofiev. In 2010 he formed the Yu piano duo with Yu Meina and also formed the Transcendent ensemble for chamber music. Together with Professor P. Eicher of the Mannheim National Conservatory of Music, Fu Hong founded the Mannheim Chinese-German Piano Summer Camp in 2009 to foster musical exchange between China and Germany. In addition, she has been invited to perform and give lectures at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, CNU, MUC National Piano Teachers Association and Heilongjiang Music Association. She has been invited as a judge for Chinese and international piano competitions such as the Wiesbaden International Piano Competition (Germany), the Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition (Portugal) and the Friuli Venezia Giulia International Piano Competition (Italy). In recent years, Fu Hong has recorded several video tutorials and published in academic journals such as Piano Art and Shanghai Conservatory Music Journal.
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Pascal Roge
France
Pascal Roge
Pascal Rogé represents the best of French pianism. Born in Paris, he was a student at the Paris Conservatoire and was mentored by Julius Katchen and the great Nadia Boulanger. Winner of the Georges Enesco piano competition and 1st prize in the Marguerite Long piano competition, at seventeen he became an exclusive Decca artist. His playing of Poulenc, Satie, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and especially Ravel and Debussy is characterized by elegance, beauty, and stylistically perfect phrasing.
Rogé has performed in almost all of the world’s major concert halls and with all of the world’s major orchestras and has collaborated with the most distinguished conductors in history, including Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Mariss Jansons, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Alan Gilbert, David Zinman, Marek Janowski, Sir Andrew Davis, Raymond Leppard, and others.
Pascal Rogé, one of the world’s most distinguished recording artists, has won many prestigious awards, including two Gramophone Awards, a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison Award for his interpretations of the Ravel and Saint-Saens concertos and the complete piano works of Ravel, Poulenc, Debussy and Satie.
Each season he devotes more than fifty concerts to French music in Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, Finland), the United States, New Zealand, and Asia, particularly Japan, where he teaches and plays regularly.
Rogé’s interest in emerging generations of young artists led him to chair the former Geneva Piano Competition. He also enjoys devoting himself to teaching and is currently an adjunct professor at Trinity Laban College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also gives regular master classes in France, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. Since 2021, he has been appointed professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.
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Pavel Gililov
Ukraine
Pavel Gililov
Born in Donetsk, southeastern Ukraine, he received his first piano lessons from his father, a music lover and amateur musician. Soon young Pavel was playing in public. He made his first appearance with an orchestra at the age of eight, and in his eleventh year he played the third piano concerto by the famous composer Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky so extraordinarily well that the great master invited him to study in St. Petersburg at the same school from which such talents as Boris Pergamenschikow, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Grigory Sokolov and many others emerged. During his studies, Pavel Gililov received great honors at the Russian Piano Competition in Moscow (1972) and the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1975). Gililov also showed exceptional skills as a teacher and became the youngest piano professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Pavel Gililov in 1978 applied to emigrate from Russua. He moved first to Austria and then to Cologne, Germany, where he taught. Shortly after his arrival in the West, Pavel Gililov won first prize at the Viotti competition in Vercelli, Italy. Pavel Gililov has played with the philharmonic orchestras of Leningrad, Moscow, and Warsaw; with the Polish Broadcast Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, Vienna Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra, RAI-Turin, Irish National Orchestra, and Detroit Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with such renowned conductors as Lawrence Foster, Andris Jansons, Valery Gergiev and James Conlon. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Vienna’s Musikverein, La Scala in Milan, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Barcelona’s Palao de la Musica, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Brussels’ Palais de Beaux-Art, Cologne’s Theatre in Buenos Aires, and countless others. Pavel Gililov’s recording career includes albums and CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Toshiba EMI, Virgin and Orpheus. Pavel Gililov is also guest of honor at major festivals such as Edinburgh, Newport, Schleswig Holstein and Rheingau; at the Salzburg and Ludwigsburg festivals and many others. He enthusiastically pursues projects with contemporary composers and has premiered many of their works. He founded the Gililov Piano Quartet. Pavel Gililov continues teaching. He is a professor at the University of Cologne,and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Many of his students are first prize winners. He serves on the jury in many international competitions. In 2005 Pavel Gililov founded the Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn, for which he is currently artistic director and jury president.
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Roberto Prosseda
Italy
Roberto Prosseda
Roberto Prosseda, born in Latina in 1975, is one of the most active and multifaceted Italian musicians on the current international scene.
He gained international notoriety as a result of his Decca CDs dedicated to the piano music of Felix Mendelssohn, which he recorded in its entirety on 10 CDs (2005 – 2014), released in a single box set in 2017 (“Mendelssohn Complete Piano Works”).
Over the past twenty years Roberto Prosseda has played regularly with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including London Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Moscow State Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Bruxelles Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Netherlands Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus. He has played under the baton of David Afkham, Marc Albrecht, Christian Arming, Harry Bickett, Oleg Caetani, Riccardo Chailly, Pietari Inkinen, Yannik Nezeit-Seguin, George Pehlivanian, Dennis Russel-Davies, Tugan Sokhiev, Jurai Valcuha, Jan Willem de Vriend.
With the Gewandhaus Orchester conducted by Riccardo Chailly, he recorded Mendelssohn’s unpublished Concerto in E minor, published by Decca in September 2009. In Italy he is a regular guest of major concert halls, including the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Teatro alla Scala, Unione Musicale di Torino, Teatro la Fenice, Accademia Chigiana di Siena, and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Prosseda is also particularly appreciated in interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin, composers to whom he has also devoted himself in his most recent Decca recordings. His recording of Mozart’s Sonatas, recorded on Fazioli piano with unequal Vallotti tuning (6 Decca CDs, 2015-18), has received considerable international acclaim. In 2022 he completed the recording of all Mozart’s piano music. In 2010, Deutsche Grammophon selected twelve Prosseda recordings for inclusion in the “Classic Gold” box set, released in May 2010.
Since 2011, he has also played piano-pédalier in public, having rediscovered and premiered several pieces by Alkan and Charles Gounod’s Concerto for piano-pédalier and orchestra with the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma, and which he has re-performed with the Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Lahti Philharmonic, and Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. He has given more than 100 concerts and pedal piano recitals around the world. Roberto Prosseda is equally active as a music popularizer, being also the creator of innovative and internationally oriented musical programming.
He is the creator and co-author of three television documentaries, directed by Angelo Bozzolini, produced by RAI and distributed internationally by Euroarts, dedicated to Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt.
His book “The Piano,” a listening guide to the piano repertoire, was published by Curci in 2013.
He is currently the artistic director of Cremona Musica International Exhibitions & Festival, the Ascoli Piceno Festival and the Patmos Chamber Music Festival.
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Vincenzo Balzani
Italy
Vincenzo Balzani
Vincenzo Balzanisi graduated in piano from the “Verdi” conservatory in Milan under Alberto Mozzati with highest honors. At 14, 1st prize at the “Ricordi” in Milan. At 16 “Liszt” prize at the “Maria Canals” in Barcelona. At 19 2nd prize at the “Pozzoli” in Seregno and 1st prize at the “Città di Treviso” and “F.P. Neglia” in Enna at the “G. B. Viotti” in Vercelli. In 1975, the centenary year of Maurice Ravel’s birth, he represented RAI in the review – competition at the ORTF in Paris . In the course of his career he has toured all over the world and performed for prestigious theaters and famous Italian festivals as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber ensembles (La Scala, San Carlo, Petruzzelli, Regio di Torino, Olimpico, Festival di Bergamo e Brescia, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, Settembre Musica). He has to his credit numerous radio and television recordings and recordings with music by Scarlatti, Mozart, Hummel, Beethoven, Chopin (complete Etudes Op.10 and Op.25), Rossini – Liszt, Schubert – Liszt, Debussy . Since 1973 he has held the chair of principal piano until 1995 at the Conservatory of Piacenza and since 1996 at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Milan. He is regularly invited to serve on juries of international competitions “Las Rozas Piano Competition”-Madrid, “London International Piano Competition- London, “Russian Piano Music Competition- Sanremo, “G.B. Viotti”- Vercelli, “Rina Sala Gallo”- Monza, “Pozzoli”- Seregno , “A. Scriabin” International Piano Competition- Grosseto, MozArte International Piano Competition- Germany, “Tchaikovsky junior” – Kurashiki, “Takamatsu International Piano Competition”- Japan, “Parnassos” Monterrey- Mexico, “Hummel “International Piano Competition-Slovakia, China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition -China, “Maria Canals” Competition – Barcelona, International Piano Competition of Lyon -France) and to give masterclasses, lectures all over the globe. He has long combined concert and teaching activities with organizational ones. He is currently the artistic director of the international competitions “Città di Cantù” and “Valsesia Musica” and the competitions reserved for young talents, “Pianotalents” in Milan, “Monterosa – Kawai” in Varallo, the “Tadini International” in Lovere and the Champion’s Keyboard Piano Competition Online. From 2010 to 2021 he was artistic advisor of the prestigious “Pozzoli” competition in Seregno and since 2012 of the Pozzolino until 2020. Since 2009, founder and Artistic Director of the Pianofriends Association of Milan. He is President of the PianoIn Association of Varese. Since January 2018, he has been regularly invited to give concerts, seminars and master classes in the most important halls in the People’s Republic of China and in Hong Kong as a testimonial of the Yangtze River Grand Piano. He was invited in October 2023 to give a seminar and masterclass at the University “F. Chopin” Warsaw. He has been a lecturer at the Accademia del Ridotto in Stradella since 2021.
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