The indomitable Marcella Crudeli will celebrate her 33rd Rome International Piano Competition tonight with the final prize winner’s concert in the beautiful Oratorio del Caravita in the centre of Rome.
The first prize winner Artem Kuznetsov will play the Tchaikowsky B flat minor concerto under the expert baton of Filippo Mancini .From the first imperious notes it was obvious that here was a pianist from the great Russian school who could play with weight and passion.
The ‘Emperor’ concerto will be shared by second prize winner Zvjezdan Vojvodic and third prize Pierpaolo Buggiani,who also got the prize for the youngest competitor and at only 18 is a talent to watch out for in the future with beauty of sound and stylish expressive playing.
Vojvodic is a twenty one year old artist who feels the music passionately but needs now to listen more carefully to the sounds he is making but his true love for the music is something to cherish, but also control.
There are many other categories and prizes to be shared tonight and with this beautiful Oratorio sold out it should create the excitement and heat that was sadly lacking this morning !
The final will be streamed live and hats off to Marcella and her team who have maintained the only International Piano Competition in the Eternal City that was home to Carlo Zecchi and Guido Agosti, two of the most important figures in the history of the piano.
The jury with the three finalists at the morning rehearsal for the evening Gala Concert
Marcella Crudeli with a member of the Cuomo Foundation.
Maestro Filippo Manci
The beautiful Oratorio del Caravita
Prof Franco Carlo Ricci with Maestro Alberto Urroz
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