Teresa Trevisan (Presidente)
The Italian pianist Teresa Trevisan graduated with honors and special mention from the “Giuseppe Tartini” Conservatory of Music in Trieste. She has taught there since 1997, as a winner of the last National State Competition.
Luciano Gante in Trieste and Aquiles Delle Vigne, for whom she was an assistant at the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot” in Paris, were her teachers.
Their artistic and pedagogical influence was profound, combined with that of Maria Puxeddu, her first pedagogue.
Numerous national and international awards have led her to develop a concert career in important venues in Italy and abroad. Cultivating her interest in chamber music, she attended the Menuhin International Academy in Gstaad and the International Academy of the Trieste Trio in Duino. She has dedicated herself particularly to forming piano duos, first with her brother Filippo and currently with Flavio Zaccaria.
The CD recorded with Velut Luna in 2006, dedicated to works by Max Reger, received an honorable mention from the Web Concert Hall. In 2015, the duo released a DVD of Ferruccio Busoni’s complete works for two pianos for the Italian label Limen Music, marking the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Following the “In Search of Roots” project, also for Limen Music, two additional DVDs were recorded in the next years, featuring works by Reger, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff.
Passionate and dedicate teacher, Teresa Trevisan has led numerous students to receive important recognition and prizes in national and international competitions, where she is often invited to serve as a jury member.
Moreover, she regularly holds piano and piano duo masterclasses at Universities and Academies in Europe and the Balkans (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey), at the Radovlijca summer courses (Slovenia), the AGM Academy in Cervignano (Udine), and the Accademia del Ridotto in Stradella (Pavia).
Teresa Trevisan was the artistic director of the Filippo Trevisan International Piano Competition and the Città di Palmanova International Music Competition. She is currently co-artistic director of the Radovlijca International Piano Competition.
Maria Grazia Bellocchio
After studying piano and composition at the Milan Conservatory, Maria Grazia Bellocchio specialised with Karl Engel at the Bern Conservatory. She regularly holds piano masterclasses at Italian conservatories and summer music courses (Campus musica Sermoneta, Chianti in musica, Comune di Maccagno), and currently holds the piano class at the Milan Conservatory. She has performed in numerous solo and chamber music recitals (with Salvatore Accardo, Rocco Filippini, Bruno Giuranna, Franco Petracchi, Myriam Dal Don, Alda Caiello and in piano duo with Stefania Redaelli) and with orchestra for concert institutions in Italy and abroad (Amici della Musica in Padua, Perugia, Florence, Palermo, Festival Mito, Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Ferrara, Teatro Regio in Parma, Società Barattelli in l’Aquila, Società dei Concerti in Milan, Milano Musica, Rec Festival, New Music of Middelburg, Klangforum Wien, University of Valparaiso (Chile), Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Festival Musica in Strasbourg, Festival Presences in Paris, Biennale di Venezia, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo)
He collaborates regularly with Divertimento Ensemble directed by Sandro Gorli, which in 2012 joined the European network Ulysses, which brings together 13 of the major European institutions dedicated to promoting and disseminating contemporary music.
In 2011, on the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, he devised the project ‘Viaggio in Italia – Nuovo canzoniere popolare – 20 canzoni popolari transcribed by 20 composers’, premiered together with Alda Caiello at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and repeated at the Mito Festival, Musica Insieme in Bologna and in several other Italian cities.
He has recorded CDs for Ricordi and Stradivarius with works by Bruno Maderna, Sandro Gorli, Franco Donatoni, Stefano Gervasoni, Gabriele Manca, Federico Gardella, Stefano Bulfon, Marco Momi, Claudio Ambrosini, Ivan Fedele and Gyorgy Kurtág.
In 2022, together with the composer Alessandro Solbiati, on the occasion of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth, he created the project ‘soave poeta, quel mio omonimo che ancora ha il mio nome…’, a journey into his poetry that interweaves the reading of his verses by the actor Fabio Zullo, songs from the Friulian folk tradition and transcriptions of Bach performed by the soprano Laura Catrani and some piano pieces chosen from the Interludi and the Third Sonata.
In 2023, the project dedicated to Salvatore Sciarrino’s Piano Sonatas, conceived by Maria Grazia Bellocchio as part of IDEA – International Divertimento Ensemble Academy, received the ‘special prize’ from the Franco Abbiati critics.
Francesco Mirabella
Francesco Mirabella graduated from the prestigious National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome under the leadership of Sergio Perticaroli.
He often performs as a soloist and in chamber music in Italian and foreign venues, such as: Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome; Alte Oper and Bechstein Piano Center in Frankfurt; Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory Tchaikovsky in Moscow; The ware Center (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); New York Italian Institute of Culture; Hall of the Beijing Conservatory; Pushkin Theatre (Lugansk – Ukraine); Ward Recital Hall at the Catholic University of Washington D.C; SS Prokofiev Theatre (Donetsk – Ukraine); Acropolium of Carthage (Tunisia).
M° Mirabella has performed many times as soloist with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Lugansk, Dnepropetrovsk State Philharmonic, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldavian State “Sergei Lunchevici”, the Philharmonic Orchestra “S. Prokofiev” of Donetsk, Ukraine Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Oleg Danovski Theater in Constance etc.
Francesco Mirabella has held masterclasses in China (Beijing Conservatory, Wuhan Conservatory and Chengdu Conservatory), Paraguay (Asunción) and has participated annually as a faculty member of the Washington International Piano Festival at The Catholic University of America and Lancaster International Piano Festival (Millersville University) in Pennsylvania.
Frequently invited to be a juror in national and international piano competitions (such as Rachmaninoff Competition at the Gnessin Academy in Moscow – US Open Music Competition in San Francisco – LIPF Romantic Piano Competition in Lancaster – Pennsylvania – International Musikwettbewerb fur die Jugend a Oldenburg. Germany – WIPF International Piano Competition in Washington D.C. etc.), he recently received the “Diploma of Honor” by the prestigious Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation in Moscow.
Mr. Mirabella is piano professor at the “A. Corelli” Conservatory, in Messina, Italy.
Emanuele Torquati
Emanuele Torquati gained international recognition for his poetic and passionate music making, communicative performances and engaging programming. His flourishing career has taken him to some of Europe, Canada, America, Mexico and Africa’s most illustrious venues, in such diverse cities as Addis Abeba, Mexico City, Lima, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon), San Francisco, Toronto, Banff, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Boston, Paris (Fondation Vuitton, Ircam), Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Lyon, Frankfurt, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Prague, Warsaw, Krakow, Wien, Graz, Ljubljana, Kiev and Oslo. His concerts have been broadcasted by RAI, BBC Radio3, Deutschland Radiokultur, MDR Kultur, Radio France, Swiss RSI, RTE Lyric and Euroradio. As a soloist he has performed with such Orchestras as Italian National Radio Orchestra (RAI), Lithuanian National Symphony, Buenos Aires Philarmonics, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Tuscany Regional Orchestra (ORT), Haydn Orchester Bozen. Having graduated in Florence under the guidance of Giancarlo Cardini, he also worked closely with Konstantin Bogino, Alexander Lonquich, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Ian Pace. A notable performer of new music and an avid chamber musician, he enjoys a diverse and varied career as a pianist. Since 2010 he served as artistic director at music@villaromana Festival in Florence and since 2015, he regularly collaborates with RAI Radio3. His first recording, “Promenade sentimentale”, devoted to the Complete Piano Music of Albert Roussel has been followed by the Complete Piano Music by Alexander Zemlinsky and “The Vale of Dreams” (Charles Griffes Piano Music) for Brilliantclassics.
In 2021 his new solo project “L’Anima e la Danza” featuring music from Couperin to nowadays, has been released by Stradivarius. His releases with New Music includes CDs with COL LEGNO, KAIROS, NEOS, RTV. With cellist Francesco Dillon, he recorded Schumann (3CDs), Complete Works by Franz Liszt, and Brahms Lieder and Hungarian Dances. He has been invited to give Masterclasses within several Universities and Conservatories in Italy and abroad, a.o. for New York University, Longy School, Boston University, University of La Plata, Universidad Popular de Còrdoba and Distat Terra Festival (Argentina), Trinity College Dublin, Southampton University, Lithuanian Academy of Music. He is currently Professor at State Conservatory “Niccolò Paganini” in Genoa.
Andrea Turini
The concert activity of the italian pianist Andrea Turini covers forty years of public performances, focusing with particular passion on the works of major composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Listz, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré.
Thanks to his extraordinary interpretations and achievements in important international piano competitions, Andrea Turini carries out an intense concert activity in prestigious concert halls around the world. such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle “A. Cortot” in Paris, Rai Auditorium in Rome.
He is constantly invited to prestigious international piano festivals in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, North Macedonia, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Israel and the United States.
Active as a chamber musician, he is a member of the Agorà Piano Quartet and works with renowned soloists and first chairs of prestigious orchestras. His prolonged experience with the famous Trio d’archi di Firenze is important and his activity as a piano duo is extensive, which he shared first with Gianluca Passerotti and later with Maria Grazia Petrali.
Andrea Turini also regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras, collaborating, , among others, with the Orchestra Musici Aurei, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Grosseto, Orchestra OIDA, Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais and Oeiras, Talenti d’Arte Chamber Orchestra, Asolana Malipiero String Orchestra, Il Contrappunto Orchestra.
He did television recordings for RAI Uno, RAI International, for Yugoslavian and North Macedonian television and radio, radio recordings for the three national RAI networks, for Vatican Radio, for Radio Nacional de Espana, he has recorded Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Ravel’s music on CD’s. Enthusiastic reviews for his CD, recently released on the Cezanne label, Goldberg Variations.
Andrea Turini is professor of a piano chair at the “Gioacchino Rossini” Conservatory of Pesaro.