Member of the jury 2027
Nation : Italy |
Lorenzo Di Bella, the last pupil of the Russian pianist Lazar Berman, won in 1995 the Premio Venezia, Italy’s most prestigious national piano competition and, in 2005, the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kiev.
In 2006, for his artistic achievements, he was awarded the Sinopoli Prize at the Quirinale by former Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, in memory of the late conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli. He has performed to great acclaim in some of the world’s most renowned concert halls and festivals, including the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto (by personal invitation of Gian Carlo Menotti), Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Sala Verdi in Milan (Società dei Concerti and Serate Musicali), Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Michelangeli Hall in Bolzano, Grosse Tonhalle Zurich, Maison Symphonique de Montréal, ORF RadioKulturhaus and Muth Hall in Vienna, Haydn Hall in Eisenstadt, the Liszt Academy Grand Hall in Budapest, Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall in Prague, Khachaturian Hall in Yerevan, Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, Auditorium of Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, RSI Auditorium in Lugano, as well as major venues and festivals – Chopin Festival in Marianske Lazne, Mahler Festival in Jihlava, Madeira Piano Festival, Sombor and Novi Sad Festival, PianoLoop Festival Split, Krakow Piano Festival, in Hamburg, Berlin, Utrecht, Sofia, Moscow (Gnessin Hall and Scriabin Museum), Tbilisi, Kyiv, São Paulo, Beijing, Shanghai (Oriental Center and Conservatory). He has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Thüringer Symphoniker, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Nancy Symphony Orchestra, MAV Budapest, Orchestra Sinfonica del Perù, OSUG of Guanajuato, Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra, and Philarmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin, among many others. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors including James Conlon, Kirill Karabits, Eckart Preu, Oliver Weder, Reinhard Seehafer, Vassylis Christopoulos, Hasan Niyazi-Tura, Vladimir Sirenko, Juan Carlos Lomonaco, Fan Ting, Francesco Lanzillotta, Luigi Piovano and Massimiliano Caldi. He studied with B. Bizzarri, F. Scala, Lazar Berman, and Sergio Perticaroli at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, the “Incontri col Maestro” Academy in Imola, and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He is currently Professor of Piano at the Pesaro Conservatory and is highly active as an international pedagogue, giving courses and masterclasses at institutions such as the Gnessin Institute in Moscow, the Imola Piano Academy, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Vladigerov National Academy in Sofia, and the University of Gyor. In February 2022, he performed with the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna as part of the Musik der Meister series. He is the founder and artistic director of the Civitanova Classica Piano Festival, the Mugellini Festival in Potenza Picena, and the La Palma d’Oro International Piano Competition in San Benedetto del Tronto. |