Simone Tavoni launches his Festival in Spain this summer at ‘Grand Passions Piano’ showroom of Muzz Shah in Newham Street Oxford Circus .
Paisajes Piano Festival will see its 4th edition next August from 12-16th when Diana Cooper will be performing as part of a collaboration with the Keyboard Trust of which Simone is an Emeritus artist.
This unique intimate and bucolic Piano Festival was launched in 2021. It was held in the gardens of the Casa Rural Las Fuentes de Agata in Hoyos, Caceres, Extremadura, Spain from the 12-15 of August 2021. Four extremely gifted international young musicians gave four evening concerts over the four days of the Festival. Admission was free, concerts started at 8.30 pm and finished by 10.15 pm with an interval mid-concert.
Simone Alessandro Tavoni, the festival’s founder and artistic director, explains:
“I have been inspired by the successful model of the late Robert Turnbull’s piano festival En Blanc et Noir held in Lagrasse, near Carcassonne, France. I wanted to bring to this part of Spain a festival that is very close to his vision of a piano festival in an atmosphere of calm, freshness and peace.”
The goals of Paisajes Festival
We offer a festival that: is free to the public – supports pianists by inviting them to perform in a nurturing, appreciative and non-competitive environment that encourages close connection with audiences – provides an educative festival programme that aims to enrich the culture of Sierra de Gata.
12/08/2025
Pedro Lopez Salas
A Chopin evening
F.Chopin: Barcarolle op 60
F.Chopin: Mazurkas op 33
F.Chopin: Etude op 25 no 10
F.Chopin: Waltz op. 34
F. Chopin: Scherzo no 2 op 31
F.Chopin: Nocturne no 1 and 2 op. 9
F.Chopin: Preludes op 28 ( 7-12)
F.Chopin: Polonaise and Fantaisie
F.Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante op. 22
8.30pm https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2025/09/27/pedro-lopez-salas-chopin-recreated-with-poetic-beauty-and-romantic-fire/
Supported by the Keyboard Charitable Trust https://keyboardtrust.org
15/08/2025
Jose Navarro Silberstein
Piano solo recital
CPE Bach – Fantasy in F-Sharp minor, Wq. 67
Chopin – Ballade No. 4, Op. 52
Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody S. 244/9
Busoni – Indian Diary Book 1
Villa-Lobos – Ciclo Brasileiro, W. 374 https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2023/06/08/jose-navarro-silberstein-masterly-performances-of-red-hot-intensity/
8.30 pm
Supported by the Robert Turnbull Foundation https://rtpianofoundation.com
The Italian pianist Simone Alessandro Tavoni has given recitals internationally, including in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Hungary, France, Spain, Malta, Estonia, Greece and across Italy. He has been awarded a place on the BBC Pathway scheme during the 2015/2016 academic year and through this, he has had the opportunity to rehearse and perform as an orchestral pianist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and some of these performances have been played by BBC Radio 3.
In 2019 Simone has been selected as a Parklane Group Artist, as Keyboard Charitable Trust Artist and received the Luciano and Giancarla Berti full-ride scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School studying with renowned Professor Fabio Bidini.
He has featured as a soloist with the East London symphony orchestra, the Kensington Chamber Orchestra, the Ashod Symphony Orchestra, the Alion Baltic symphony orchestra and the Luigi Cherubini Symphony Orchestra. Performance venues have included the Liszt House (Budapest, Hungary), Salon Christophori (Berlin, Germany), the Florence Conservatory Concert Hall (Florence, Italy), the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall, St.Mary’s Perivale, 1901 Art Club, the Brunel University, St Martin in the Fields, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Regent Hall, St. James’ Piccadilly (London. U.K.) The Winchester Cathedral (U.K.), Petit Palau in Barcelona ( Spain),The Talliin Philarmonia and Glehn Castle (Talliin, Estonia) the Hausmusik of Aarhus and the Italian institute of culture in Copenhagen (Denmark). He is also a regular guest artist at the En Blanc Et Noir Piano Festival in Lagrasse, (France) and of the Aegean international art festival in Heraklion ( Crete). During a recent recital in Spain his recording has been broadcasted by the Canal du sur ( Almeria, Spain).
After graduating from the Giacomo Puccini Conservatoire in La Spezia, Liguria (Italy) when he was 18, where he studied the piano under Marco Podestà, he then moved to Florence to study at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatoire, continuing piano studies with Giuseppe Fricelli, and studying composition with Rosario Mirigliano.
Winner also of numerous national competitions in Italy, he had also the opportunity to participate in an exchange programme in Budapest on a full scholarship at the Franz Liszt Academy studying with Professors Kesckes Balazs and Rita Wagner.
In 2014, he moved to London to study on the Master of Performance programme at the Royal College of Music with Professor Andrew Ball. After winning a second exchange bursary in Autumn 2015, he pursued his studies for one term at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany with Dr. Peter Nagy. He has received also masterclasses by Dmitri Bashkirov, Fabio Bidini, Aldo Ciccolini, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonio Pompa Baldi and Malcolm Bilson.
Simone has been generously supported by the Talent Unlimited organization and by the Henry Wood Trust at Royal college of Music. During the 2018/2019 academic year he obtained an Advanced Diploma course at Trinity Laban Conservatoire with professors Deniz Gelenbe and Peter Tuite majorly supported by a scholarship and selected as a Alfred Kitchin and Trinity College London Scholar.
Simone is supported by the Talent Unlimited organization; he is a trustee of the prestigious and long established Kensington and Chelsea Music Society and Founder and Artist Director of Paisajes Piano Festival, Sierra de Gata in Spain https://paisajespianofestival.com.
He is currently performing, closely assisted and supported by Prince Dr. Donatus Von Hohenzollern.
