 Fabio Vacchi
Fabio Vacchi was born in Bologna (19 February 1949). In 1974 he took part in the Berkshire Music Center courses in Tanglewood (USA), where he won the Koussewitzky Prize for composition. In 1976 he won first prize at the Gaudeamus competition in Holland for his Les soupirs de Geneviève for 11 solo strings. |
 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… |
 Michele Campanella
Internationally acclaimed as one of the major virtuoso interpreters of Liszt, three-time winner of the Grand Prix du Disque awarded by the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest (1976, 1977 and 1998), the latter for his recording “Franz Liszt-The Great Transcriptions, I-II” (Philips), Michele Campanella has interpreted in over 45 years of career most of the major piano repertoire. He has been… |
 Jean Jacques Eigeldinger
Jean Jacques Eigeldinger |
 Michele Gamba
Now considered as one of the most eclectic interpreter of recent years, Michele Gamba had his debut at Covent Garden Linbury Theatre conducting Mozart Bastien und Bastienne and a staged version of Berios’s Folk Songs. He then appeared at the Berlin State Opera for a new production of Le nozze di Figaro directed by Jürgen Flimm, gaining great success from the audience and critic alike. |
 Anna Kravtchenko
In 1992, Anna Kravtchenko was awarded first prize and prize of the public at the International “Ferruccio Busoni”piano competition (the first prize hadn’t been awarded in the five previous years). Harold C. Schonberg, who was a member of a jury, writes in “The New York Times Magazine”: ”Her radiant sound and poetical interpretations could sometimes reduce the audience to tears”. |
 Jeffrey Swann
Jeffrey Swann |
Jury for the 15th competition (2025)