Since early childhood, the Italian pianist Jacopo Giovannini is regarded as an exceptional, highly-gifted artist: he started to learn the piano at the age of four and already won his first international competition one year later. With six years, he played his first public recital at Rome’s Palazzo Barberini, and at the age of 11, he made his orchestra debut with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Grand Shostakovich Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia under the baton of Anatoly Rybalko and the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.

He performs regularly at international music festivals including the Tuscia Opera Festival, the Lisztomanias Festival in Chateauroux and Paris, the Jiang Artists Festival in Kaufbeuren, and the Reate Festival in Rieti where he played Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Teatro Flavio Vespasiano under the baton of Kent Nagano and the Tafelmusik Orchestra in 2010. He also performed Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and further concerts led him to the Lüneburger Heide with the Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra, the Auditorium di Via della Conciliazione in Rome, the Salone degli Affreschi in Milano, and the Carnegie Hall in New York. Various interviews and portraits of him were broadcasted on national television, and he was strongly supported by renowned conductors including Claudio Abbado and Antonio Pappano.

In the 2019/20 season, he played numerous recitals (chamber music & solo) in Italy (Trieste, Verona, Bolzano and Florence), Germany (Hanover, Munich) and Austria (Arlberg). He performed Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the EY Young Talent Orchestra and was invited for a concert tour with the Südwestdeutsche Kammerorchester at the Klavierfestival junger Meister including Ravensburg’s Konzerthaus, Lindau’s Stadttheater and Augsburg’s Kleiner Goldener Saal.

Born 1997 in Rome, Jacopo Giovannini already graduated at the age of 14 from the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia with highest distinction, followed by further masterclasses in Italy. He is currently studying with Prof. Bernd Goetzke since 2016, as well as with Olivier Gardon until 2019, at the acclaimed Hanover University of Music, Theatre and Media.

(Updated: 2020-03-01)