 Bryce Morrison
Bryce Morrison is considered among the world’s leading authorities on piano repertoire and performance. A music scholar of Kings School, Canterbury, he read English at Oxford University, later teaching in Canada and America, before settling in London where he has taught and written as a music critic for many years. |
 Jean-François Antonioli
Jean-François Antonioli, Swiss pianist of Italian origin, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1959. He studied with Fausto Zadra, (Scaramuzza’s pupil) and 3 years with Pierre Sancan in Paris. Together with these key teachers in his development, two other encounters had a crucial impact on the rest of his life: Bruno Seidlhofer, (Vienna) and Carlo Zecchi (Rome), himself a disciple of Busoni and S… |
 Vovka Ashkenazy
Vovka Ashkenazy, who is of Russian and Icelandic parentage, began piano lessons at the age of six with Rögnvaldur Sigurjónsson in Reykjavík, where his family lived at the time. Ten years later he went to England to study with Sulamita Aronovsky at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He also benefitted from occasional study sessions with pianists such as Leon Fleisher and Peter Frankl… |
 Giampaolo Nuti
Giampaolo Nuti has been first prizewinner in many piano competitions and he has performed in Austria, France, Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, USA, Canada, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Kenya and throughout Italy in solo recitals and in various chamber ensembles, appearing in many relevant concert seasons and music festivals both as pianist and as harpsichordist. He is also active in the conte… |
 Riccardo Risaliti
For many years, Riccardo Risaliti has actively pursued a career as concert performer, teacher, researcher into the performance and history of the piano, critic, and editor of piano scores. He has won many national and international awards, and has soloed and played alongside well-known musicians, singers and chamber music ensembles in an ever richer and more unusual repertoire, particularly within… |
 François-Joel Thiollier
François-Joël Thiollier is one of today’s most complete pianists and musicians. Franco-American by birth he has assimilated the best of several cultures: born in Paris, he played his first concert at the age of five in New York. As a child, he studied in France with Robert Casadesus and distinguished teachers of the Paris Conservatoire. Subsequently, he studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki at the Juill… |
 Catherine Vickers
Catherine Vickers was born in Regina, Sask. Canada and studied in Edmonton, Alberta before going to Europe on a Canada Council grant to further her studies in Hannover, Germany. |
Jury for the 12th competition (2022)