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Jury and Prizes<\/span><\/span><\/h3>

28th Edition – 2026<\/span><\/h3>
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Prizes include checks and grants for a total amount of \u20ac 33.000 and a series of concerts, to be held by the winner in Italy\u2019s most important classical music seasons and concert halls, through all 2027.<\/span><\/h3>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner padding_bottom_multiplier=”3x” rc_font_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ grve_css=”{“desktop“:{“margin-left“:“5%“,“class“:“grve-wpb-1682686661874“}}” rc_font_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column_text]\u2192 First prize
\n<\/strong>\u20ac 15.000 \u201cCity of Monza\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2192 Second prize<\/strong>
\n\u20ac 8.000<\/p>\n

\u2192 Third prize<\/strong>
\n\u20ac 5.000 \u201cMonza East & Monza West Rotary Clubs\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2192 Scholarship
\n<\/strong>\u20ac 2.000 combined with the Special Audience Award, awarded during the final round.<\/p>\n

\u2192 \u201cMassimo Galli\u201d Prize
\n<\/strong>\u00a0In memory of Massimo Galli, artistic promoter and record producer. Awarded to the candidate, chosen from among the 6 semi-finalists, who has reached his greatest artistic peak in one of the rounds. The Prize consists of the production of a CD<\/b>, at the Fazioli Concert Hall, published by the Piano Classics label, with a program agreed with the label and the organization of the Competition.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\u2192<\/strong> Chopin Prize<\/strong>
\n\u20ac 1.000 in memory of Febea D\u2019Andria D\u2019Eredit\u00e0, offered by her daughter Maria Rosaria Sallustio D\u2019Andria, awarded to the best performance of a piece by Chopin.<\/p>\n

\u2192 \u201cRina Sala Gallo Musical Association Council\u201d<\/strong> Prize
\n<\/strong>\u20ac 1.000 awarded to the youngest candidate among the semi-finalists.<\/p>\n

\u2192 Prize “Laura Zancarli”<\/strong>
\n\u20ac 1,000 for the competitor who, during the entire competition, has reached the highest poetic peak<\/p>\n

\u2192 “Students’ Jury” Award
\n<\/strong>\u20ac 500 and a masterclass at the Bartolomeo Zucchi Music High School, offered by Inner Wheel Monza[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row padding_top_multiplier=”” padding_bottom_multiplier=”” rc_bg_type=”color” rc_bg_color=”#f2f4f9″][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ grve_css=”{“desktop“:{“margin-top“:“-100“,“class“:“grve-wpb-1683105024599“}}”]

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Concert opportunities for the winners<\/span><\/span><\/h3>
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\u2714 A concert (2023-24 Season) of the Milan Symphony Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi at the Mahler Auditorium.
\n\u2714 A chamber music concert (2023-24 Season) at the Gerolamo Theater in Milan, with the principal chairs of the orchestra
\n\u2714 A concerto for the Un piano per la citt\u00e0 season in Monza in 2023
\n\u2714 A series of five or more concerts organized by Weltklassik am Klavier in Germany.
\n\u2714 One or more concerts for Fondazione Giovent\u00f9 Musicale d\u2019Italia
\n\u2714 A concert at the Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, for Fazioli and with the Regional Theatre of Friuli Venezia Giulia, in 2023.
\n\u2714 A concert offered by Banco di Desio and Brianza in 2023
\n\u2714 A concert offered by Hauskonzert \u2013 Amici della Musica di Ispra in 2023
\n\u2714 A concert offered by Piano City Milano 2023-24
\n\u2714 A Recital offered by the ProMusica Association
\n\u2714 A solo recital for the Societ\u00e0 dei Concerti season in Milan
\n\u2714 More concerts will be announced in the next months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eleonore B\u00fcning<\/h4>

Germany<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Dr. Eleonore B\u00fcning, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1952, studied musicology, literature and performing arts in Berlin. After writing freelance as author and moderator for various papers and radio stations, she was from 1993 to 1997 in Hamburg responsible music editor for Die Zeit<\/em>\u00a0and has worked since 1997 in the same function for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em>\u00a0(FAZ) in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. Dr. B\u00fcning\u2019s published books include Wie Beethoven auf den Sockel kam<\/em>\u00a0(1989), Streifz\u00fcge durch die Klassik mit Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau<\/em> (2005). Various lectures about musicology & music criticism were given at universities in Hamburg, Heidelberg, Dortmund, etc. Dr. B\u00fcning has won various prizes, including Joseph-Roth-Preis (Klagenfurt) and Heidelberger Musikpreis. Besides this, Eleonore B\u00fcning joined as member of the jury in diverse musical competitions, such as Bechstein-Preis (Essen), Klavierolymp (Bad Kissingen), Beethovenpreis (Bonn) and Deutscher Pianistenpreis (Frankfurt). Since 1998 she has worked continuously for Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Prize) in various jury categories, piano music, concert and chamber music. Since 2010 she has been chairman of the board for this prize. Since 2015 she has been member of the adviser board of Deutscher Musikwettbewerb.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Anna Fedorova<\/h4>

Ukraine<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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From an early age, the Ukrainian-born pianist Anna Fedorova showed an innate musical maturity and amazing technical abilities. She regularly performs at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center, Tonhalle Z\u00fcrich, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs- Elys\u00e9es in Paris, Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and London\u2019s Barbican Centre & Royal Albert Hall. She has so far released four solo piano albums, five chamber music albums, and all of Rachmaninoff\u2019s Piano Concertos with the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen under Modestas Pitrenas, exclusively on Channel Classics Records. Her highly acclaimed live recording of Rachmaninoff\u2019s 2nd Piano Concerto has over 45 million views on YouTube. Anna\u2019s recent highlights include performance at the Opening of Verbier festival with the Verbier Festival Orchestra under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic under the batons of Daniel Harding and Vasiliy Petrenko as well as a recital at the international piano festival La Roque d\u2019Anth\u00e9ron and a European and USA tour with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, including thirteen performances at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh Festival, Lincoln Center, Elbphilharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and more. The New York Times noted that \u201cpianist Anna Fedorova was a sensitive, poetic soloist in Chopin\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2. Anna is a co-founder and director of the Davidsb\u00fcndler Music Academy in The Hague. Anna Fedorova graduated from the Lysenko School of Music in Kyiv with Borys Fedorov and the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy, with Leonid Margarius. She received her Master\u2019s degree and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, London, under the guidance of Norma Fisher. Her mentors include Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, Steven Isserlis, and Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff.<\/span><\/h5>\n
annafedorova.com<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Francesco Filidei<\/h4>

Italy<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Born in Pisa in 1973, Francesco Filidei graduated from the Conservatory of Florence and the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Paris, earning top marks in both institutions. As an organist and composer, he has been invited by the most important contemporary music festivals and performed by orchestras such as the WDR, SWR, RSO Wien, ORT, RAI, Tokyo Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, La Verdi, and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Warsaw and Vilnius, as well as by specialized ensembles including Linea, L\u2019Itin\u00e9raire, Alter Ego, NEM, EOC, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Recherche, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Icarus, Ictus, London Sinfonietta, and Neue Vocalsolisten. His works have been performed in particular at the Berlin, Cologne, and Paris Philharmonies; at Suntory Hall and the Tokyo Opera House; at the Theaterhaus in Vienna; the Herkulessaal in Munich; the Tonhalle in Zurich; and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After receiving a commission from the IRCAM Comit\u00e9 de Lecture in 2005, he was awarded the Salzburg Music F\u00f6rderpreis in 2006, the Takefu Prize in 2007, the Siemens F\u00f6rderpreis in 2009, the UNESCO Picasso\/Mir\u00f3 Medal at the Rostrum of Composers in 2011, the Abbiati Prize in 2015, and the Charles Cros Academy Award in 2016. He was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2005, a member of the Casa de Vel\u00e1zquez in 2006 and 2007, a resident at the Villa Medici in 2012, and a DAAD fellow as well as composer-in-residence with Ensemble 2e2m in 2015. He has taught composition at Royaumont (Voix Nouvelles), the University of Iowa, Takefu, the Tchaikovsky City Academy in Russia, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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William Kinderman<\/h4>

USA<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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William\u00a0Kinderman\u00a0has been described by Alfred Brendel as a \u201cvery rare bird\u201d on account of his ability to combine scholarship and performance.\u00a0After studying music and philosophy at Dickinson College, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the University of Vienna, and Yale University, he received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He is author of\u00a0Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times\u00a0<\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 2020; German edition Molden, 2020; Mandarin translation 2025). His other books\u00a0include Beethoven\u2019s Diabelli Variations <\/em>(1999), Mozart\u2019s Piano Music <\/em>(2006), Beethoven\u00a0<\/em>(2009),\u00a0The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurt\u00e1g<\/em>\u00a0(2012), and\u00a0Wagner\u2019s Parsifal\u00a0<\/em>(2013); he also writes on literary and philosophical topics. As pianist, he has recorded Beethoven\u2019s Diabelli <\/em>Variations and last sonatas and performs all of Beethoven\u2019s piano concertos with orchestra. Kinderman\u2019s research has explored the creative process of major composers; his Beethoven research and performance served as a basis for the Broadway play \u201c33 Variations\u201d by Mois\u00e9s Kaufman. He has received a Killam Research Award and a Research Prize for lifetime achievement from the Humboldt Foundation. He served as scholarly advisor and co-curator for Vienna\u2019s Beethoven Museum at Heiligenstadt, which opened in 2017, and contributed recordings to the museum. During the Beethoven anniversary year 2020, Kinderman gave performances and lecture recitals in Bonn, Jena, Vienna, Berlin, Oxford, Philadelphia, New York, Houston, and Boston. In 2021, he was an organizer of the conference held at Bonn on \u201cBeethoven\u2019s \u2018Empire of the Mind\u2019: Artistic \u2018Effigies of the Ideal\u2019 and the Cultural Politics of Resistance\u201d with sponsorship of the Humboldt Foundation. Since the easing of the pandemic by September 2023, he has given presentations in Germany, Austria, Italy, Korea, and in many Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanning, Xi\u2019an, Dalian, and Shenyang. Kinderman has taught as Guest Professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin, at the University of Munich. In Vienna, Kinderman was a Director\u2019s Fellow at the International Research Center for the Humanities as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Art and Music. He is Distinguished Professor and inaugural Leo and Elaine Chair of Performance Studies at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles.<\/span><\/h5>\n
williamkinderman.com<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Robert Levin<\/h4>

USA (President from the Second Round)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Pianist Robert Levin has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia, appearing with the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Philadelphia, Toronto, Utah and Vienna on the Steinway and with the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Baroque Soloists, the Handel & Haydn Society, the London Classical Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre R\u00e9volutionnaire et Romantique on period pianos. Renowned for his improvised cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, Robert Levin has made recordings of a wide range of repertoire, including Bach\u2019s complete keyboard concertos, the six English Suites and both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier (H\u00e4nssler Edition Bachakademie<\/em>); a Mozart concerto cycle with Christopher Hogwood, Richard Egarr, Boyan \u010ci\u010di\u0107, Laurence Cummings, and the Academy of Ancient Music (Decca\/Oiseau Lyre and AAM); the Beethoven concertos with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre R\u00e9volutionnaire et Romantique (DG Archiv); the complete piano music of Dutilleux (ECM); Bernard Rands\u2019 Preludes and Impromptu (Bridge); the complete Beethoven sonatas and variations for fortepiano and \u2019cello with Steven Isserlis (Hyperion); the Brahms, Hindemith, and Shostakovich viola sonatas and a collection of elegies and a series of Spanish and Argentine song transcriptions with Kim Kashkashian (ECM); the six Bach Partitas (Grand Prix International du Disque<\/em>); the Schubert piano trios with Noah Bendix-Balgley and Peter Wiley (Le Palais des D\u00e9gustateurs); and the complete Mozart sonatas on Mozart\u2019s Walter piano (ECM). A passionate advocate of new music, Robert Levin has commissioned and premiered numerous works, including John Harbison\u2019s Second Sonata (2003), Yehudi Wyner\u2019s piano concerto Chiavi in mano <\/em>(Pulitzer Prize, 2006), Bernard Rands\u2019 Preludes (2007), Thomas Oboe Lee\u2019s Piano Concerto (2007), and Hans Peter T\u00fcrk\u2019s Tr\u00e4ume <\/em>(2012). He has a long partnerships with violist Kim Kashkashian and his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang, in duo recitals and with orchestra, and with cellist Steven Isserlis. A noted Mozart scholar, Mr.\u202fLevin\u2019s completions of Mozart\u2019s Requiem, C-minor Mass, and other unfinished works have been recorded and performed throughout the world. He was Artistic Director of the Sarasota Music Festival from 2007 to 2016 and President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig, Germany) from 2002 to 2024.\u00a0 He was awarded the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig in 2018 and the Golden Mozart Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation in 2024.\u00a0 From 1993 to 2013 he was Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and is Visiting Professor at The Juilliard School and International Chair at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
robertlevinmusic.com<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Bruno Monsaingeon<\/h4>

France<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In his own words, Birth: December 5th<\/sup> 1943, in Paris \/ Death: expected on a 27th<\/sup> of January\u2014guess why\u2014.Place and year so far unknown.\u00a0Bruno Monsaingeon is a Paris-based violinist who has devoted himself to music, writing books, and making films.\u00a0 \u00a0Among these films his profiles of legendary performers, such as Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, David Oistrakh, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Paul Tortelier, Gennadi Roshdestvensky, Julia Varady, Murray Perahia, Marie-Claire Alain, Louis Kentner, Friederich Gulda, Nadia Boulanger, Viktoria Postnikova, Dezs\u00f6 Ranki, Zoltan Kocsis, Andre\u00ef Chesnokov, Julius Katchen, Marie-Claire Alain, Gilles Apap, Francesco Libetta, the Alban Berg Quartet, the Artemis Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter, Grigory Sokolov, and more recently David Fray, Valeriy Sokolov, Piotr Anderszewski, Mstislav Rostropovich, Aleksey Shadrin, Francesco Piemontesi, The Arod Quartet, and Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 have gained worldwide acclaim. Bruno Monsaingeon is also the author of seven books:\u00a0Mademoiselle<\/em>\u00a0(conversations with Nadia Boulanger),\u00a0Le dernier Puritain<\/em>,\u00a0Contrepoint \u00e0 la ligne<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Non, je ne suis pas du tout un excentrique<\/em>, a series of three books containing the entire literary output of the great Canadian pianist, composer and writer, Glenn Gould,\u00a0Richter, \u00c9crits et Conversations<\/em>(France Culture Muses Award, Pell\u00e9as 1999 Award), \u00c9ditions Van de Velde \u2013 Arte \u00c9ditions \u2013 Actes Sud,\u00a0Passion Menuhin, l\u2019Album d\u2019une vie<\/em>, \u00c9ditions Textuel \u2013 Arte \u00c9ditions, and in 2002, Glenn Gould:\u00a0Journal d\u2019une crise<\/em>, followed by\u00a0Correspondance de concert<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Mariangela Vacatello<\/h4>

Italy<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\u201c… and even when Ginastera gives you one piece with a close family likeness to another, you listen with a sense of renewal thanks to performances by Mariangela Vacatello of a superb zest, brio and imaginative scope… she has technique in spades, making her a front-runner with Argerich\u2019s legendary live Three Argentinian Dances… no praise could be high enough for Vacatello’s achievement.\u201d <\/em>(Gramophone 2016)<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Born in Naples, Mariangela Vacatello made her debut at the age of 14 with Liszt\u2019s First Piano Concerto and, at 17, established herself on the international stage by winning Second Prize at the Liszt Competition in Utrecht. She has been awarded prizes at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano, the Van Cliburn Competition in Texas, the Top of the World Competition in Norway, and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, and has performed in over 800 concerts, from Milan\u2019s Teatro alla Scala to extensive tours throughout Europe, the United States, China, and South Africa. For more than twenty years, she has been recognized for the curiosity and versatility of her interpretative horizons, as well as for the virtuosity and passion that characterize every work in her repertoire. Her discography includes Liszt\u2019s 12 Transcendental \u00c9tudes, Debussy\u2019s \u00c9tudes, the complete piano works of Alberto Ginastera, and the ten piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin. In 2024, she became the first pianist to create a video project featuring all ten Scriabin sonatas, also presented in two episodes within the RAI program Dieci colori per 10 Sonate<\/em>. She studied with Franco Scala, Riccardo Risaliti, and Dominique Merlet. She collaborates with IRCAM\u2013Centre Pompidou in Paris and has given world premieres of works by Aperghis, Maresz, Stroppa, and Momi. She is frequently invited to serve as a jury member for competitions of the Geneva Federation, including the International Franz Liszt Competition in Utrecht, the UNISA Competition in Pretoria, and the Busoni Competition in Bolzano. For several years she has chosen to live in Umbria, combining her concert career with teaching activities in masterclasses and at the International Academy of Music in Pinerolo, and she is a tenured professor at the \u201cFrancesco Morlacchi\u201d Conservatory in Perugia. In 2024, she began her role as Artistic Director of the Cantiere Internazionale d\u2019Arte of Montepulciano.<\/span><\/h5>\n
mariangelavacatello.com<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

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