Winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and winner of the Van Cliburn, Honens, Geza Anda, Dublin, Valencia and Sendai Competitions, Roberto Plano has embarked on an international career that has led him to perform in halls such as Lincoln Center and Steinway Hall (New York), Herculessaal and Gasteig (Munich), Wigmore Hall and St. John's Smith Square (London), Salle Cortot (Paris),  National Concert Hall (Dublin), Sala Verdi, Teatro Dal Verme and Auditorium in Milan, Teatro Donizetti (Bergamo), Teatro Manzoni (Bologna), Parco della Musica (Rome), for prestigious festivals such as the Michelangeli Festival in Brescia and Bergamo, MusicaRivaFestival, Chopin Festival in Duszniki (Poland), Ravinia Festival, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Portland International Piano Festival (USA), the Stellenbosch Piano Symposium (South Africa) and the Bologna Festival – Grandi Interpreters. He has performed as a soloist with prestigious orchestras including the Houston Symphony, strings of the Berliner Philarmoniker, Kremerata Baltica, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Konzertverein Orchestra, Festival Strings Luzern, Verdi Symphony Orchestra, with famous conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Pinchas Zuckerman, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti. The monthly magazine Amadeus has dedicated the cover to him 3 times (2013, 2015, 2023) attaching CDs in which he interprets the Sonatas op. 1 by Luchesi in world premiere recording, an anthology of Scriabini's music and the last pieces for piano by Schubert. He has recorded more than 20 albums for Sipario, Azica, Arktos, Concerto and Brilliant Classics, and his debut album for Decca has recently been released with the complete recording of Liszt's Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses, a work that had been missing from the catalog of the great English record company for more than 50 years. He has collaborated with famous string quartets (Cremona, Takacs, Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Vogler, Henschel, Jupiter) and with soloists such as Enrico Bronzi, Ilya Grubert, Gabriele Cassone, Giovanni Scaglione, Paola Del Negro - with whom he has been playing in a piano duo for several years - and the jazz pianist Paolo Paliaga, with whom he recorded an album – Inspiration – dedicated to the fusion between classical music and jazz.  He also plays in a trio with L. Smukler and D. Adskins, professors of violin and cello at the Juilliard School in New York, with whom he has performed in China and the USA. He has held Masterclasses in major American universities, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. For his artistic merits he was invited by Senator Thad Cochran to the U.S. Capitol in Washington and appointed Honorary Member by the Varese Prealpi Lions Club, which had already awarded him the Lumen Claro Prize. He has been defined by the Chronicle as the \"Pavarotti of the piano\" for his lyricism, defined as the heir of Rubinstein and Horowitz by the Chicago radio commentator P. Harvey and pointed out as one of the greatest interpreters of Scriabin by the American critic John Bell Young. The NY Times wrote of him: \"This Italian pianist has shown an artistic maturity that goes far beyond his age; A marvellous purity and a mastery of the deepest suggestions have characterized his interpretations. Plano demonstrated polished virtuosity at levels of competition as much as musical depth.\" In the fall of 2016 he became the first Italian pianist called to hold the role of holder of a Piano Chair at Boston University, and in 2018 he was awarded - also in this case the first Italian musician - the American Prize. He quickly became one of the most sought-after lecturers in the USA, and from 2018 to 2023 he taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. Since 2023 he has been Professor of Piano at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano and International Visiting Professor of Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK). He is also a piano teacher at the Academy of Music in Pinerolo. Regularly invited to international juries around the world (Cleveland, Seoul, Singapore...) in the coming months he will be a member of the Screening Jury of the Van Cliburn Competition 2025 (Texas, USA) and of the Final Jury of the Honens Competition (Calgary, Canada).