She began her musical studies at the age of five, under the guidance of Jean and Marguerite Manuel. She obtained her Diplôme d’exécution and Licence de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi. She perfected her studies in Italy with Maria Tipo (later becoming her assistant), then in Switzerland at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève where she graduated, being awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité.

She held several concerts in Paris at the Salle Gaveau and Théâtre de Paris and in other cities in France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom (with the Southbank Sinfonia), Greece (with the Quatuor Psophos), Turkey, Romania, Russia, Poland, Chile (with the Orquesta Clásica Universidad de Santiago) and the United States, where she performed as a soloist, in piano duets, in chamber music groups and with the orchestra, under the guidance of renowned conductors like Árpád Gérecz, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Nicolas Rauss, Daniel Barda, David del Pino Klinge, Simon Over, Maurizio Dini Ciacci, Nicolas Krauze.

She took part in many Beethoven and Mozart concerts, composers to whom she dedicated most of her career. She won the Concours International Hennessy-Mozart in Paris, where she was enthusiastically applauded by the jury and in particular, by the president Paul Badura-Skoda. Moreover, the great Italian orchestra conductor, Carlo Maria Giulini, expressed heart-felt admiration after hearing her play the last three Beethoven sonatas in 1998.

In Italy she was guest pianist at prestigious musical institutions such as the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, the Auditorium Verdi of Milan in duet with French cellist Alain Meunier. She recorded several CDs for the Solstice record company.

In 2012, on the occasion of Claude Debussy’s 150th birth anniversary, she performed in several concerts with his 12 studies.

She lives in Venice, where she is piano professor at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello since 2014. Many of her students were awarded in international competitions.

Her Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and the complete piano Sonatas recorded for Odradek, received many astonishing reviews.

She is regularly invited as a jury member in international piano competitions.

Press reviews

“Who is Muriel Chemin? Simply one of the best interpreters of Beethoven in the world.” Hervé Pennven – Hebdo National

“Muriel Chemin reminds of Pollini’s objective purity from a few years ago, along with Brendel’s humor!” Luc Nevers – Classica

“She works as a synthesis of Schnabel’s furious frenesy, Arrau’s poetic meditation, Brendel’s nervous anxiety.” Philippe van den Bosch – Répertoire

“The breath, the balance of her concept, the combination of rigour, richness and analytical awareness are astonishing.” Patrick Szersnovicz – Le Monde de la Musique

“5 diapasons – Familiar with the work of Beethoven, the pianist embraces the thirty-three variations in a great vigorous gesture, thus creating a sense of homogeneity within this series of composite atmospheres. With frank accentuations, basses full of depth and scintillating highs, she releases the crazy energy that Beethoven has injected into Diabelli’s waltz, without ever succumbing to a demonstration of virtuosity or emphatic effusion.” Jérôme Bastianelli, October 2017 – Diapason

“The result (Op.120) is comprehensive and a very satisfying chain of beautifully realised transformations.” Jan de Kruijff, June 2017 – Musicalifeiten

“…and rediscovering her today, affirming with eloquence and elegance her devotion to Beethoven, is a joy to behold.” Jean-Charles Hoffelé, April 2017 – ARTAMAG’

“She approaches the late Opus 120 in a rather aristocratic way: the reverence for the greatness of the work sounds through, she plays technically perfectly, rich in substance and with a differentiated sound.” Isabel Fedrizzi, May 2017 – Piano News

Born in Palermo in 1982, he started a passionate and intense concert activity at a very young age, carrying out a wide repertoire which ranges from Renaissance to modern and contemporary music. He has been guest of renowned festivals (Salzburger Festspiele, Ruhr Klavier, Spoleto Due Mondi, Bucarest Enescu, Ravello, “Chopin” Duszniki-Zdròj, A.B. Michelangeli di Brescia e Bergamo, “Al Bustan” Beirut, “Mehli-Mehta” Mumbai) and in some of the most important concert venues in the world, including La Scala in Milan, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Gasteig in Munich, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Santa Cecilia at “Parco della Musica” in Rome, Rudolfinum Dvořák Hall in Prague, Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar in Mexico City, Teatro Oriente in Santiago de Chile, Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, Esplanade Auditorium in Singapore, City Hall Concert Hall in Hong Kong, etcetera.

He regularly plays with major orchestras (London Philharmonic, Tokyo NHK Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Philharmonische Camerata Berlin, London Mozart Players, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) and great conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gianandrea Noseda, Andrew Parrott and internationally acclaimed artists, including Sarah Chang, Giovanni Sollima, Sergej Krylov, Anna Tifu, Svetlin Roussev, John Malkovich.

First Prize Winner in some of the most prestigious international piano competitions – such as “Ferruccio Busoni” in Bolzano, London Piano Competition, Porto, Sendai, Hong Kong – in 2005 he was praised for artistic merit by the Italian Ministry for Heritage and Cultural Activities.

He has many records on his credit (Sony, Warner, Naxos, Fontec labels) and has been guest in various Radio-TV broadcasts, such as NHK-BS2 Tokyo, BBC London, Radio France Musique, Amadeus 103.7 Buenos Aires, Classic FM Radio Allegro Johannesburg, RTSI Lugano, RDP Radiodifusão Portuguesa, Rai Radio3 Italia, German Radio SWR2, Vatican Radio, WRR Dallas Classical Radio, Hong Kong Radio 4, Singapore Symphony 92.4FM, Fresno Valley Public Radio, etc.

Andaloro gives master classes in Italy and abroad (Tokyo Showa University, Fresno California State University, International Keyboard Academy of Thailand, Kuala Lumpur Chopin Society, Hong Kong Chopin Society) and has served the jury in international piano competitions.

Pavel Gililov was born in Donetsk in Southeastern Ukraine where his parents fostered his obvious musical genius from a young age. The boy received his first piano lessons from his father, a music lover and amateur musician.
Soon young Pavel was playing in public. He made his first appearance with an orchestra at age eight and by his 11th year performed the third piano concerto of famed composer Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky with such aplomb that the grand master invited him to study in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) at an academy for highly gifted children. The school has produced such talent as Boris Pergamenschikow, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Grigory Sokolov and many others.
During his studies, Pavel Gililov received high honors at the All-Russian Piano Competition in Moscow (1972) and the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1975). As his talents were recognized he became a sought after performer throughout the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations. Gililov also displayed outstanding abilities as an instructor and after his graduation in 1976 he became the youngest professor of concert piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Soon he came to detest Soviet oppression and in 1978 applied to emigrate. He first moved to Austria and then to Cologne, Germany, where he re-ignited his passion for musical instruction.
Soon after his arrival in the West, Gililov won top honors at the renowned Viotti competition in Vercelli, Italy. Thus began a new phase in his life as performer. Always in popular demand, he has appeared countless times both solo and with orchestras. He played with philharmonic orchestras from Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Moscow and Warsaw; with the Polish Broadcast Orchestra, the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Vienna Symphony, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Cologne’s Gürzenich Orchestra, RAI- Turin, the Irish National Orchestra and the Detroit Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with such renowned conductors as L. Foster, A. Jansons, V. Gergiev and J. Conlon. In his musical travels Gililov has visited many of the world’s cultural centers, playing in the Berlin Philharmonic, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Vienna’s Musikverein, La Scala in Milan, Madrid’s Teatro Real, the Palao de la Musica in Barcelona, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Zurich’s Tonhalle, the Palais de Beaux-Art in Brussels, the Teatro Cologne in Buenos Aires and countless others.
Pavel Gililov’s recording career includes albums and CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Toshiba EMI, Virgin and Orfeo to name a few. His discography provides a mere sampling of the wide-ranging talents of this versatile and vastly accomplished musician.
He is also an honored guest at major festivals such as Edinburgh, Newport, Schleswig Holstein and Rheingau; at the Salzburg and Ludwigsburg Festivals and many more. He enthusiastically pursues projects with contemporary composers and has premiered many of their works. In addition to his solo concerts, he is a lover of chamber music. Along with his schoolmate and friend, the late Boris Pergamenschikow, he created a duo that gained international renown. He also founded the Gililov Piano Quartet (formerly the Philharmonic Piano Quartet Berlin).
Despite his hectic concert schedule, he continues to guide and instruct promising young musicians. He is a Professor at the Cologne University for Music and Dance, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg where he has instructed a long list of international award-winning musicians. Many of these have gone on to stellar careers. Pavel Gililov travels the world giving masterclasses to young pianists and for years has supervised the Summer Academy in Lausanne. In addition, he is a jury member in many international competitions.
In 2005, Pavel Gililov founded the Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn where he is currently artistic director and jury president.

She began her musical studies at the age of five, under the guidance of Jean and Marguerite Manuel. She obtained her Diplôme d’exécution and Licence de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi. She perfected her studies in Italy with Maria Tipo (later becoming her assistant), then in Switzerland at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève where she graduated, being awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité.

She held several concerts in Paris at the Salle Gaveau and Théâtre de Paris and in other cities in France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom (with the Southbank Sinfonia), Greece (with the Quatuor Psophos), Turkey, Romania, Russia, Poland, Chile (with the Orquesta Clásica Universidad de Santiago) and the United States, where she performed as a soloist, in piano duets, in chamber music groups and with the orchestra, under the guidance of renowned conductors like Árpád Gérecz, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Nicolas Rauss, Daniel Barda, David del Pino Klinge, Simon Over, Maurizio Dini Ciacci, Nicolas Krauze.

She took part in many Beethoven and Mozart concerts, composers to whom she dedicated most of her career. She won the Concours International Hennessy-Mozart in Paris, where she was enthusiastically applauded by the jury and in particular, by the president Paul Badura-Skoda. Moreover, the great Italian orchestra conductor, Carlo Maria Giulini, expressed heart-felt admiration after hearing her play the last three Beethoven sonatas in 1998.

In Italy she was guest pianist at prestigious musical institutions such as the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, the Auditorium Verdi of Milan in duet with French cellist Alain Meunier. She recorded several CDs for the Solstice record company.

In 2012, on the occasion of Claude Debussy’s 150th birth anniversary, she performed in several concerts with his 12 studies.

She lives in Venice, where she is piano professor at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello since 2014. Many of her students were awarded in international competitions.

Her Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and the complete piano Sonatas recorded for Odradek, received many astonishing reviews.

She is regularly invited as a jury member in international piano competitions.

Press reviews

“Who is Muriel Chemin? Simply one of the best interpreters of Beethoven in the world.” Hervé Pennven – Hebdo National

“Muriel Chemin reminds of Pollini’s objective purity from a few years ago, along with Brendel’s humor!” Luc Nevers – Classica

“She works as a synthesis of Schnabel’s furious frenesy, Arrau’s poetic meditation, Brendel’s nervous anxiety.” Philippe van den Bosch – Répertoire

“The breath, the balance of her concept, the combination of rigour, richness and analytical awareness are astonishing.” Patrick Szersnovicz – Le Monde de la Musique

“5 diapasons – Familiar with the work of Beethoven, the pianist embraces the thirty-three variations in a great vigorous gesture, thus creating a sense of homogeneity within this series of composite atmospheres. With frank accentuations, basses full of depth and scintillating highs, she releases the crazy energy that Beethoven has injected into Diabelli’s waltz, without ever succumbing to a demonstration of virtuosity or emphatic effusion.” Jérôme Bastianelli, October 2017 – Diapason

“The result (Op.120) is comprehensive and a very satisfying chain of beautifully realised transformations.” Jan de Kruijff, June 2017 – Musicalifeiten

“…and rediscovering her today, affirming with eloquence and elegance her devotion to Beethoven, is a joy to behold.” Jean-Charles Hoffelé, April 2017 – ARTAMAG’

“She approaches the late Opus 120 in a rather aristocratic way: the reverence for the greatness of the work sounds through, she plays technically perfectly, rich in substance and with a differentiated sound.” Isabel Fedrizzi, May 2017 – Piano News

She began her musical studies at the age of five, under the guidance of Jean and Marguerite Manuel. She obtained her Diplôme d’exécution and Licence de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi. She perfected her studies in Italy with Maria Tipo (later becoming her assistant), then in Switzerland at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève where she graduated, being awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité.

She held several concerts in Paris at the Salle Gaveau and Théâtre de Paris and in other cities in France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom (with the Southbank Sinfonia), Greece (with the Quatuor Psophos), Turkey, Romania, Russia, Poland, Chile (with the Orquesta Clásica Universidad de Santiago) and the United States, where she performed as a soloist, in piano duets, in chamber music groups and with the orchestra, under the guidance of renowned conductors like Árpád Gérecz, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Nicolas Rauss, Daniel Barda, David del Pino Klinge, Simon Over, Maurizio Dini Ciacci, Nicolas Krauze.

She took part in many Beethoven and Mozart concerts, composers to whom she dedicated most of her career. She won the Concours International Hennessy-Mozart in Paris, where she was enthusiastically applauded by the jury and in particular, by the president Paul Badura-Skoda. Moreover, the great Italian orchestra conductor, Carlo Maria Giulini, expressed heart-felt admiration after hearing her play the last three Beethoven sonatas in 1998.

In Italy she was guest pianist at prestigious musical institutions such as the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, the Auditorium Verdi of Milan in duet with French cellist Alain Meunier. She recorded several CDs for the Solstice record company.

In 2012, on the occasion of Claude Debussy’s 150th birth anniversary, she performed in several concerts with his 12 studies.

She lives in Venice, where she is piano professor at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello since 2014. Many of her students were awarded in international competitions.

Her Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and the complete piano Sonatas recorded for Odradek, received many astonishing reviews.

She is regularly invited as a jury member in international piano competitions.

Press reviews

“Who is Muriel Chemin? Simply one of the best interpreters of Beethoven in the world.” Hervé Pennven – Hebdo National

“Muriel Chemin reminds of Pollini’s objective purity from a few years ago, along with Brendel’s humor!” Luc Nevers – Classica

“She works as a synthesis of Schnabel’s furious frenesy, Arrau’s poetic meditation, Brendel’s nervous anxiety.” Philippe van den Bosch – Répertoire

“The breath, the balance of her concept, the combination of rigour, richness and analytical awareness are astonishing.” Patrick Szersnovicz – Le Monde de la Musique

“5 diapasons – Familiar with the work of Beethoven, the pianist embraces the thirty-three variations in a great vigorous gesture, thus creating a sense of homogeneity within this series of composite atmospheres. With frank accentuations, basses full of depth and scintillating highs, she releases the crazy energy that Beethoven has injected into Diabelli’s waltz, without ever succumbing to a demonstration of virtuosity or emphatic effusion.” Jérôme Bastianelli, October 2017 – Diapason

“The result (Op.120) is comprehensive and a very satisfying chain of beautifully realised transformations.” Jan de Kruijff, June 2017 – Musicalifeiten

“…and rediscovering her today, affirming with eloquence and elegance her devotion to Beethoven, is a joy to behold.” Jean-Charles Hoffelé, April 2017 – ARTAMAG’

“She approaches the late Opus 120 in a rather aristocratic way: the reverence for the greatness of the work sounds through, she plays technically perfectly, rich in substance and with a differentiated sound.” Isabel Fedrizzi, May 2017 – Piano News

Steinway Artist and concert pianist, co-founder and director of the label KNS Classical and artistic director of several cycles and festivals of music, Carles Lama has also won a reputation for mentoring a wide number of young talents.

Together with superior studies in piano performance in Spain, Paris and United States and having directed the Conservatory of Music in Girona -from 2006 to 2012 – he studied Music Business, Branding and Digital Marketing and has founded Music Talent Lab, and presented workshops and lectures in different institutions in order to guide and enlighten the musicians ‘careers.

At the same time, he has taught Master-Classes around the world and has been jury member of many renowned international competitions.

He is member of the acclaimed “Carles & Sofia piano duo” with his wife Sofia Cabruja, with whom they have played around the world, including venues like Carnegie Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana, Sala Verdi or Teatro Solís, among others. They have been praised by public and critics alike as one of the best piano duos in the world. Their discography of more than 10 CDs includes masterworks for four hands and brilliant and demanding orchestral transcriptions, as well as original and exclusive projects created by the duo, including the transcription of the opera “Goyescas” or a “Lieder Project”, with transcriptions for four hands of Brahms, Schumann and Schubert lieder repertoire.

Always committed with social needs, he has a UNICEF award for his humanitarian aid.
In 2012, together with his wife, they founded Concerts4Good, Music on a Mission, a solidarity project. And in 2020, they created their own Foundation: Carles & Sofia Music Foundation.

He has been recognised as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation and has received the Golden Star for the Professional Excellence, the Golden Medal for the Merit at Work and the European Golden Cross.

VINCENZO BALZANI graduated under Alberto Mozzati Magna Cum Laude from G.Verdi Conservatory of music Milano. 1965 he won the Ricordi International. 1967 he got Liszt prize at Maria Canals in Barcelona. 1971 he was top prize winner in many famous competitions as: Pozzoli, Treviso, G.B.Viotti internationals. 1975 he successfully represented RAI television at Ravel Competition in Paris. He has performed 1200 concerts (recitals, chamber and symphonics)  all over the world including the most prestigious Italian theatres and festivals (Scala, San Carlo, Regio-Turin, Olimpico-Rome,Festival Michelangeli,Festival dei Due Mondi, Settembre Musica). He is recording on Radio and TV and has recorded several LPs and CDs including  Scarlatti, Mozart, Hummel, Beethoven, Chopin, Rossini , Schubert-Liszt.

Since 1973 he became piano professor in the Conservatory of Piacenza  and since 1996 in the Conservatory of Milan.

He is jury member  of many international competitions (“Las Rozas Piano Competition -Madrid, “London International Piano Competition- London, G.B. Viotti”- Vercelli, “Rina Sala Gallo”- Monza, “Pozzoli”- Seregno, “Russian Piano Music Competition – Sanremo, “A. Scriabin” International Piano Competition- Grosseto, “MozArte” International Piano Competition- Germany,  “Tchaikovsky junior” – Kurashiki, “Takamatsu International Piano Competition”- Japan , “Parnassos” di Monterrey- Mexico, “Hummel”International Piano Competition-Slovacchia, China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition -China, “Maria Canals” Competition -Barcelona, International Piano Competition of Lyon – France) and holds courses, masterclasses lectures in Italy and abroad.

He is artistic director of Città di Cantù, Valsesia Musica, Pianotalents, Pozzolino, Monterosa Kawai, Tadini International and Champion’s Keyboard Piano Competition Online.

From 2010 to 2021 he has been artistic consultant of the prestigious “Pozzoli” competition in Seregno and from 2012 to 2020 of Pozzolino.

In 2009 in Milano he has founded the Pianofriends association organizing festivals, concerts, stages. He is president of PianoIn association of Varese. Since January 2018 he has been regularly invited to hold concerts, seminars and masterclasses in the most important halls of the People’s Republic of China and in Hong Kong as testimonial of the Yangtze River Grand Piano.

He was invited in October 2023 to hold a seminar and a masterclass at the University “F. Chopin” Warsaw.

Professor since 2021 at the Academy of the Ridotto di Stradella.

Pavel Gililov was born in Donetsk in Southeastern Ukraine where his parents fostered his obvious musical genius from a young age. The boy received his first piano lessons from his father, a music lover and amateur musician.
Soon young Pavel was playing in public. He made his first appearance with an orchestra at age eight and by his 11th year performed the third piano concerto of famed composer Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky with such aplomb that the grand master invited him to study in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) at an academy for highly gifted children. The school has produced such talent as Boris Pergamenschikow, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Grigory Sokolov and many others.
During his studies, Pavel Gililov received high honors at the All-Russian Piano Competition in Moscow (1972) and the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1975). As his talents were recognized he became a sought after performer throughout the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations. Gililov also displayed outstanding abilities as an instructor and after his graduation in 1976 he became the youngest professor of concert piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Soon he came to detest Soviet oppression and in 1978 applied to emigrate. He first moved to Austria and then to Cologne, Germany, where he re-ignited his passion for musical instruction.
Soon after his arrival in the West, Gililov won top honors at the renowned Viotti competition in Vercelli, Italy. Thus began a new phase in his life as performer. Always in popular demand, he has appeared countless times both solo and with orchestras. He played with philharmonic orchestras from Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Moscow and Warsaw; with the Polish Broadcast Orchestra, the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Vienna Symphony, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Cologne’s Gürzenich Orchestra, RAI- Turin, the Irish National Orchestra and the Detroit Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with such renowned conductors as L. Foster, A. Jansons, V. Gergiev and J. Conlon. In his musical travels Gililov has visited many of the world’s cultural centers, playing in the Berlin Philharmonic, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Vienna’s Musikverein, La Scala in Milan, Madrid’s Teatro Real, the Palao de la Musica in Barcelona, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Zurich’s Tonhalle, the Palais de Beaux-Art in Brussels, the Teatro Cologne in Buenos Aires and countless others.
Pavel Gililov’s recording career includes albums and CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Toshiba EMI, Virgin and Orfeo to name a few. His discography provides a mere sampling of the wide-ranging talents of this versatile and vastly accomplished musician.
He is also an honored guest at major festivals such as Edinburgh, Newport, Schleswig Holstein and Rheingau; at the Salzburg and Ludwigsburg Festivals and many more. He enthusiastically pursues projects with contemporary composers and has premiered many of their works. In addition to his solo concerts, he is a lover of chamber music. Along with his schoolmate and friend, the late Boris Pergamenschikow, he created a duo that gained international renown. He also founded the Gililov Piano Quartet (formerly the Philharmonic Piano Quartet Berlin).
Despite his hectic concert schedule, he continues to guide and instruct promising young musicians. He is a Professor at the Cologne University for Music and Dance, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg where he has instructed a long list of international award-winning musicians. Many of these have gone on to stellar careers. Pavel Gililov travels the world giving masterclasses to young pianists and for years has supervised the Summer Academy in Lausanne. In addition, he is a jury member in many international competitions.
In 2005, Pavel Gililov founded the Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn where he is currently artistic director and jury president.

Pascal Rogé exemplifies the finest in French pianism. Born in Paris, he was a student of the Paris Conservatory and was also mentored by Julius Katchen and the great Nadia Boulanger. Winner of Georges Enesco piano competition and 1^st prize of Marguerite Long Piano competition, he became an exclusive Decca recording artist at the age of seventeen.  His playing of Poulenc, Satie, Fauré, Saint-Saëns and especially Ravel and Debussy is characterized by its elegance, beauty and stylistically perfect phrasing.

Mr. Rogé has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world and with every major orchestra across the globe and has collaborated with the most distinguished conductors in history, including Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Mariss Jansons, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Alan Gilbert, David Zinman, Marek Janowski, Sir Andrew Davis, Raymond Leppard and others.

One of the world’s most distinguished recording artists, Pascal Rogé has won many prestigious awards, including two Gramophone Awards, a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison Award for his interpretations of the Ravel and Saint- Saens concerti along with the complete piano works of Ravel, Poulenc Debussy and Satie.

Each season, he devotes more than fifty concerts to French music in Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, Finland) as well as in the United States, New Zealand or Asia, and particularly in Japan where he teaches and plays regularly.

Mr. Rogé’s interest  in the younger generation of up-and-coming artists rendered him to be a chairman of the previous Geneva Piano competition. He moreover enjoys dedicating his time to teaching and is a current adjunct professor at the Trinity Laban College of Music and Royal Academy of Music in London.  He also gives regular masterclasses in France, Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Since 2021, he has been appointed a professor Of the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.

Roberto Prosseda, born in Latina in 1975, is one of the most active and versatile Italian musicians on the current international scene.
He gained international fame following his Decca CDs dedicated to the piano music of Felix Mendelssohn, which he recorded in full on 10 CDs (2005 – 2014), published in a single box set in 2017 (“Mendelssohn Complete Piano Works”) .

Over the past twenty years Roberto has performed regularly with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Moscow State Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Brussels Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Netherlands Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus. He has performed under the baton of David Afkham, Marc Albrecht, Christian Arming, Harry Bickett, Oleg Caetani, Riccardo Chailly, Pietari Inkinen, Yannik Nezeit-Seguin, George Pehlivanian, Dennis Russel-Davies, Tugan Sokhiev, Jurai Valcuha, Jan Willem de Vriend.

With the Gewandhaus Orchester conducted by Riccardo Chailly, he recorded the unpublished Concerto in E minor by Mendelssohn, published by Decca in September 2009. In Italy he is a regular guest of the major concert institutions, including the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Teatro alla Scala, the Unione Musicale of Turin, the Teatro la Fenice, the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, the Teatro Comunale of Bologna.

Roberto is also particularly appreciated in the interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, authors to whom he has also dedicated himself in his most recent Decca recordings. His  recording of Mozart Sonatas, recorded on Fazioli piano with unmatched Vallotti tuning (6 Decca CDs, 2015-18), has received considerable international acclaim. In 2022 Roberto completed the recording of Mozarts’ complete piano works in 11 CDs.

In 2010 Deutsche Grammophon selected twelve recordings by Prosseda to include them in the “Classic Gold” box set, published in May 2010. Since 2011, he has also played the piano-pedalier in public, having rediscovered and presented in modern premieres various pieces by Alkan and the Concert by Charles Gounod for piano-pedalier and orchestra with the Toscanini Philharmonic of Parma, which he has re-performed with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Weimar Staatskapelle, the Lahti Philharmonic, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded the 4 pieces by Charles Gounod for Pedal Piano and orchestra with Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana and Howard Shelley for Hyperion. Roberto Prosseda gave 100 concerts with the pedal piano, contributing to the rediscovery of the instrument and its repertoire.

Roberto Prosseda is equally active as a music writer and author Radio and TV project, being also the creator of innovative musical programs of international scope. He conceived three TV documentaries, directed by Angelo Bozzolini, about Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt, produced by RAI and worldwide distributed by Euroarts.

His book “Il Pianoforte”, a listening guide to piano repertoire, was publushed by Curci in 2013.

Roberto is currently artistic director of Cremona Musica International Exhibitions, of Ascoli Piceno Festival, of Patmos Chamber Music Festival.