The Jury
Carlos Cebro – Uruguay/Francia, President
Vincenzo Balzani – Italia, Artistic Director
Cristina Molteni – Italia
Pavel Ionescu – Romania
Antonio Tarallo – Italia
Oleg Marshev – Russia
Roberto Plano – Italia
THE JURY IN 32 EDITIONS
PRESIDENTS
Marcello Abbado – Italy
Sulamita Aronowsky – Russia
Ovidiu Balan – Romania
Vincenzo Balzani – Italy
Carlo Bruno – Italy
Enrica Ciccarelli – Italy
Marcella Crudeli – Italy
Dario De Rosa – Italy
Sergei Dorensky – Russia
Adam Harasiewicz – Poland
Klaus Hellwig – Germany
Pavel Ionescu – Romania
Shuku Iwasaki – Japan
Julius Kalmar – Austria
Leonel Morales – Spain
Sergio Perticaroli – Italy
Boris Petrushansky – Russia
Enzo Restagno – Italy
Lucia Romanini – Italy
Hubert Stuppner – Italy
MEMBERS
Robert Andres – Portugal
Luca Ballerini – Italy
Alberto Baldrighi – Italy
Giovanni Umberto Battel – Italy
Robert Benz – Germany
Yuri Bogdanov – Russia
Elisaveta Blumina – Russia
Raimondo Campisi – France
Julio Garçia Casas – Spain
Enrica Ciccarelli – Italy
Stefan Coles – Romania
Mario Delli Ponti – Italy
Antonio Di Cristofano – Italy
Vsevolod Dvorkine – Russia
Svetlana Eganian – France/Russia
Ingrid Fliter – Argentina
Andreas Frölich – Germany
Roberto Furcht – Italy
Siavush Gadjiev – Russia
Pierangelo Gelmini – Italy
Maria Golia – Italy
Carlo Guaitoli – Italy
Catia Iglesias – Italy
Pavel Ionescu – Romania
Midori Kasahara – Japan
Vincent La Ferla – Argentina
Juan Lago – Spain
Stefano Lamon – Italy
Mark Lapsansky – Croatia
Sergio Maffizzoni – Italy
Anna Malikova – Russia
Albert Mamriev – Israel
Angelo Mantovan i – Italy
Oleg Marshev – Russia
Gabriel Mengher – Romania
Arthur Milesi – Swiss
Cristina Molteni – Italy
Leonel Morales – Spain
Yoshifumi Morita – Japan
Antonio Mormone – Italy
Tomoko Murakoshi – Japan
Lisa Navach – Great Britain
Yuko Ninomiya – Japan
Alejandro Nuñez Allauca – Perù
Dimitri Orlov – Russia
Todor Petrof – Bulgaria
Ippazio Ponzetta – Italy
Roberto Prosseda – Italy
Philipe Raskin – Belgium
Riccardo Risaliti – Italy
Piero Romano – Italy
Akioshi Sato – Japan
Myrthala Salazar – Mexico
Luis Salomon – Argentina
Reid Smith – USA
Marian Sobula – Poland
Fedora Sorrentino – Italy
Alfredo Speranza – Italy
Gabriel Tacchino – France
Antonio Tarallo – Italy
Alvaro Texeira Lopes – Portugal
Natalya Troull – Russia
Mihai Ungureanu – Romania
Adrian Vasilache – Romania
Elisabetta Villa – Italy
Arnulf von Arnim – Germany
Alexander Yakovlev – Russia
The Jury has chosen the 24 exceptional pianists moving forward in the Classic and Romantic Sections!
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CLASSIC SECTION
Alice Balan, Romania, 20 anni
Bruno Maria Billone, Italia 23 anni
Giovanni Calabria, Italia, 23 anni
Edoardo Maria Crepaldi, Italia, 19 anni
Reo Gojo, Giappone, 24 anni
Seo Jun Lim, Repubblica di Corea, 22 anni
Arda Mustafaoglu, Macedonia del Nord, 22 anni
Sakura Nagano, Giappone, 27 anni
Rina Saito, Giappone, 28 anni
Takeshi Shimozato, Giappone, 31 anni
Jiayu Ye, Cina, 26 anni
Stefano Zeitler, Italia, 24 anni
ROMANTIC SECTION
Michele Castaldo, Italia, 19 anni
Ana Sofia Chereches, Romania, 16 anni
Leonardo De Nigris, Svizzera, 25 anni
Yuka Inoue, Giappone, 34 anni
Teodora Kapinkosvka, Macedonia del Nord, 25 anni
Kangeun Lee, Repubblica di Corea, 29 anni
Ke Ma, Cina, 29 anni
Rosamaria Macaluso, Italia, 21 anni
Denys Maistruk, Ucraina, 22 anni
Davide Marcati, Italia, 24 anni
Leonardo Merlini, Italia, 22 anni
Samuele Giovanni Valenzano, Italia, 20 anni
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We extend our deepest gratitude to all candidates.
For those not selected this time, we wish you a flourishing career and hope to welcome you back in future editions!
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May 6-10, 2025
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