ANTONIO MORMONE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
The winner
Ying Li
The finalists
Piotr Pawlak
Su Yeon Kim
The semifinalists
Josef Edoardo Mossali
Leonardo Pierdomenico
Philipp Scheucher
Suah Ye
Leonardo Colafelice
George Harliono
Micah McLaurin
LEONARDO COLAFELICE
Italia
In August 2016, Leonardo Colafelice won the Second Prize at the “Cleveland International Piano Competition“, the Audience Prize, the prize for the Best Performance of a Russian Piece and the Junior Jury Prize.
He is recipient of numerous prizes, includingsixt prize at the 2015 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, first prize at the 2013 Hilton had International Piano Competition, firs prize at 2013 Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition for Young Artists, first prize at the 2012 Gina Bachauer Young Artsits International Piano Competition,
finalists at 2014 Arthur Rubinstein Internatioal Piano Competition where he received the prize Best Performer of a Classical Concerto, Best Performer of a Chopin Composition, and “Most Outstanding Pianist up to 22 Years”.
Born in Altamura (Bari) on 1995, Leonardo is a graduate of the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Music where he was a student of Pasquale Iannone.
Recent engagements include recitals in Rome and other major venues in Italy, Paris, Bern, Istanbul, Budapest, Tblisi Tel Aviv. He appeared as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Aarhus Symphony orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Rochester Philharmonic in US, the Chile Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto.
GEORGE HARLIONO
United Kingdom
British pianist George Harliono was invited to make his first one hour long, solo recital at the age of nine and since then has performed in numerous locations both in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia, appearing at venues such as Wigmore Hall, The Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal and The Royal Albert Hall.
A regular performer with orchestras including the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, The Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra and Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra.
George also regularly performs alongside eminent artists such as Lang Lang and Denis Matsuev and has worked with many renowned conductors including Valery Gergiev, Alexander Sladkovsky, Ainars Rubikis and Anton Lubchenko.
George has been awarded prizes in numerous competitions throughout the world including The Grand Piano Competition in Moscow, Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London, Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in Utah and Dinu Lipatti Piano Competition in Bucharest.
Most recently he performed with The Mariinsky Orchestra in Vladivostok, Russia under the baton of Valery Gergiev. He studies with Professor Vanessa Latarche (Chair of International Keyboard Studies and Head of Keyboard, Royal College of Music in London). George began studying at The Royal College of Music for a BMUS Degree on a full four year scholarship in September 2017. He is one of the youngest students ever to be accepted onto this course. He has taken masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov and Vladimir Ashkenazy among others.
On 2019 George was one of the youngests pianist to be accepted into the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. On 2018 he was shortlisted for an award in the ‘Sound of Classical Poll’ at the Classic BRIT Awards in London, which promotes the best emerging artists and ones-to-watch in classical music. Upcoming engagements for George include recitals at the Wiener Konzerthaus and Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival as well as concerto performances at Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires
PROGRAM OF THE FINAL
Solo Recital:
Bach/Rachmaninov – Prelude from Partita for violin solo n. 3 in E major BWV 1006
L. van Beethoven – Sonata n. 30 in E major op. 109
I. Fedele “WS Variations”
F. Chopin – Sonata n. 3 in B minor op. 58
Chamber music:
Piano Quintet in A major op.81
Concerto for piano and orchestra:
Pianoconcerto n. 1 in B-flat minor op. 23
SU YEON KIM
South Korea, 1994
South Korean pianist Su Yeon Kim has earned worldwide acclamation by winning the first prize of the Concours musical international de Montreal in 2021. Her achievement includes also the second prize at the Mozart International Competition Salzburg 2020 and many more: the first prize at the J. N. Hummel International Piano Competition and at the Compositores de Espana Piano Competition, 2nd prize at the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and 3rd prize at the Alaska International e-Piano Competition. She gained special recognition internationally when she was a semi-finalist of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels 2021 as the only woman pianist.
As a soloist, Su Yeon has appeared with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Solist Orchestra, Mozarteum Sinfonieorchester, Poland Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Gellert Academy Orchestra, Fairbanks Philharmonic Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the 2021-2022 season, Su Yeon makes her debut to perform with Montreal Symphony. She will have a North-American concert tour, and her first album will be released with Steinway & Sons Label.
PROGRAM OF THE FINAL
Solo recital:
L. van Beethoven – Sonata in A major op. 101
F. Chopin – Fantasia in F minor op. 49
I. Fedele – “WS Variations”
S. Prokofiev – Sonata n. 7 in B-flat major op. 83
Chamber Music:
A. Dvorak – Piano Quintet in A major op.81
Concerto for piano and orchestra:
S. Rachmaninov – Pianoconcerto n. 2 in C minor op. 18
YING LI
China, 1997
She graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2019, where she studied with Seymour Lipkin and Jonathan Biss. Since autumn 2019 she has been enrolled in the PhD at the Julliard School with Robert McDonald. As a soloist, Ying has performed with the Philhadelpia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Bacau Symphony Orchestra and St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been a finalist at the Concours Musical International de Montréal in 2021, she won the 1st prize Series Sarasota National Competition, the 3rd prize Young Artist Concerto Competition of the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, the 1st prize Solo Competition and Concerto Competition of the Brevard Music Festival. She is a passionate chamber musician, and a member of Philhadelphia’s AYA Trio.
MICAH MCLAURIN
USA
“A strong personality with technique and power to spare” the Philadelphia Enquirer said after his second engagement with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Micah has performed as soloist with orchestras around the globe including the Cleveland Orchestra, Orquestra Filarmónica de Montevideo, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic, Perugia Festival Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Music Academy of the West’s Academy Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony.
Winner of the Gilmore Young Artist Awardhe is also a laureate of the Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists, the Hilton Head International Competition and the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Piano Competition among many others.
Micah has performed recitals and chamber music at the Verbier Festival, Spoleto Festival, Music Fest Perugia, Aspen Festival, Southeastern Piano Festival, International Piano Series at the College of Charleston, the Miami Chopin Foundation, Gilmore Festival, Paderewski Festival of Raleigh, Les Jeudis du Piano in Geneva and Les Pianissimes Festival in Paris.
In 2019, he recently made his Lincoln Center recital debut at Alice Tully Halland performed at Lincoln Center’s David Koch Theateras part of the Youth America Grand Prix Gala. He has collaborated with many conductors including Joshua Weilerstein, JoAnn Falletta, Jahja Ling, Nicholas McGegan and Ken Lam.
Born in 1994 in Charleston, Micah studied there with Marsha Gerber and Enrique Graf. He completed his bachelor’s degree program at the Curtis Institute of Music working with Robert McDonald and Gary Graffman. He now studies with Jerome Lowenthal and Veda Kaplinsky at the Juilliard School.
JOSEF EDOARDO MOSSALI
Italia
He began to study piano with M° Massimiliano Motterle, and then he enrolled at the Bergamo Conservatory in the class of M° Marco Giovanetti. Now he is attending the conservatory under the guidance of M° M. Motterle. He is also studying with M° Pasquale Iannone at the Music Academy of Pescara.
He won the first prize in several competitions, including the 27th National Piano Competition “J.S.Bach” City of Sestri Levante, the “Vittoria Caffa Righetti – XX International Music Competition” City of Cortemilia, the 7th Piano Competition “City of Riccione”, the 19th edition of “National Piano competition Città di Giussano”, the “D.Scarlatti piano competition in Carpenedolo”, the “Piano talents competition” in Milan the “National Piano competition Città Piove di sacco” the “Piano competition Marco Bramanti, Forte dei Marmi”, Silver Medalist at the 4th Manhattan International Music Competition..
He joined masterclasses with M. Béroff, V. Ovchinnikov, P. Nemirovski, B. Lupo. He played for the Foundation La Società dei Concerti of Milan, the Erba European Academy of music, the Barletta Piano Festival 2017, the Società del Quartetto of Milan, the Pescara Piano Festival, the 50th edition of the GIA Concert Association in Brescia, the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, where, in 2018, he received the prize “Young musical talent of the year”.
He played with the Bergamo Conservatory Orchestra, under the baton of Fabrizio Maria Carminati.
PROGRAM OF THE FINAL
Solo recital:
L. van Beethoven – Sonata in A major op. 101
I. Fedele “WS Variations”
J. Brahms – Sonata in F minor op. 5
Chamber music:
C. Franck – Pianoquintet in F minor
Concerto for piano and orchestra:
S. Prokofiev – Pianoconcerto n. 2 in G minor op. 16
PIOTR PAWLAK
Poland, 1998
Student at the Academy of Music in Gdansk in the class of Maestro Waldemar Wojtal, he won numerous prizes in competitions dedicated to Chopin, including: 2nd prize National Chopin Competition 2020, 1st prize in Darmstadt (2017), 2nd prize in Budapest (2018), Krakow (2017) and Beijing (2016), Jelenia Góra (2011), Szafarnia (2014, 2012, 2010, 2009). In October 2015 Piotr took part in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He has played as a soloist with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, Mainzer Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in Poland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, Germany, Lithuania, Hungary, Georgia, Denmark, Belgium and Austria.
LEONARDO PIERDOMENICO
Italia
Winner of the Jury Discretionary Award at the 2017 Van Cliburn International piano Competition, the Italian pianist Leonardo Pierdomenico is also a first prize winner at the 2011 Premio Venezia Piano Competition held in La Fenice Opera House and a semifinalist at the 2016 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition.
In 2017 he earned a Master’s degree cum Laude at the “Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” of Rome, under the guidance of M° Benedetto Lupo. He has performed with many prominent orchestras, including the Fort Worth Symphony, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, La Fenice Symphony, LaVerdi Orchestra and the Wuhan Philarmonic among the others, collaborating with conductors such as Nicholas McGegan, Yves Abel and Diego Matheuz.
Solo recitals have brought him to major venues worldwide, including the Bass Hall in Fort Worth (TX), Sala Verdi of Milan Conservatory, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, La Fenice Opera House, Studio 4 Flagey in Brussels, Konzerthaus Berlin, Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan (China).
His debut recording for Brilliant Classics received an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone and one of the 7 nominations for the best Classical solo piano recording of the year for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik (Prize of the German national musical Critique).
PHILIPP SCHEUCHER
Austria
“His absolute presence onstage and his clean, attentive sound of his interpretations set new quality standards.”. stated the WDR Broadcasting Cooperation after winning the First Prize at the International Music Prize in Cologne/Germany.
Philipp Scheucher was born in Graz in 1993. The Austrian pianist currently performs in Europe’s most important venues, such as the “Golden Hall” in Vienna, the “Gewandhaus” in Leipzig or the “Konzerthaus” Berlin. In the last years his performances lead him all around the world, including the United States, Canada, South Africa, Russia and Japan. He cooperated with major orchestras and conductors, for example the “Graz Philharmonic Orchestra” with Dirk Kaftan, the “recreation-Orchestra” with Michael Hofstetter, the “Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra” with Daniel Boico or the “Aarhus Symphony Orchestra” with Alexander Prior.
He is the winner of prestigious international piano competitions, such as the 1st prize at the “International Music Competition Köln/Germany”, 2nd prize at the “UNISA International Piano Competition” in South Africa and 1st prize at the “Aarhus International Piano Competition” in Denmark. In 2018 he was among the top ten emerging young pianists to perform in the Honens International piano competition in Calgary/Canada. Most recently he was awarded with the honorary prize by the Austrian governmentamong the 50 best Master alumni and the first prize at the “Karlrobert Kreiten” piano competition at the University of Cologne.
SUAH YE
South Korea
Suah Ye is the first prize winner of the 9th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. Shortly after, she won the first prize at the 1st Arthur Rubinstein International Youth Piano Competition. In addition to that, she received a prize for the best performance of commissioned work, a CD recording contract and an invitation to perform with the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra. Recently, she won first prize at the concerto competition of the Tel-hai International Piano Master Classes.
Born in 2000, S. Korea, Suah has performed as soloist in numerous concerts with Orchestra such asIsrael Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk Academic Symphony orchestra, and Presidential Orchestra of the Russian Federation. Following her debut recital under the sponsorship of Kumho Asiana foundation at the age of 9, she has given many recitals and concerts such as at the Jerusalem Center Concert Series, Steinway Concert Series, at the International Tchaikovsky Youth Festival, and at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall.
Suah served as a junior jury at the 15th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition and was invited to perform at the opening concert.
She has appeared on Korean Broadcast TV and Radio, and Israel TV program ‘Intermezzo with Arik’and so on. She currently studies with Arie Vardi at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover.
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