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The piano at the University | 07 May 2026

The piano at the University

Milan

Michelle Candotti

Halve finalisten. International Liszt piano competition.
Photo: Allard Willemse

Program

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Barcarola in F sharp major, op. 60 (1846)

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Concert paraphrase on Ernani (after Giuseppe Verdi), S. 432 (1847)

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
(from the Deuxième année: ItalieAnnées de pèlerinage), S. 161 n. 7 (1849)

George Enescu (1881–1955)
Pavana in D major
(from Suite No. 2 Des cloches sonores), op. 10 (1903)

Henry Cowell (1897–1965)
The Aeolian Harp (1923)

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Piano Sonata, Sz. 80 / BB 88 (1926)

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Michelle Candotti obtained her diploma in piano with honors at the age of 14 under the guidance of Prof. Laura Palmieri. Subsequently he obtained the three-year Diploma at the Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with Maestro Enrico Pace, the Master in Performance with distinction and the Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London with Maestro Dmitri Alexeev.

At the age of 17 she was a soloist finalist at the 59th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. During her career she has obtained prestigious international awards, including the third prize and the audience prize at the "XVII International Grand Prix Animato Competition" in Paris, the second prize at the "11th German Piano Award" in Frankfurt, and was a finalist at the "5th Maj Lind Piano Competition" in Helsinki. In addition, she was a semifinalist at the prestigious "18th Chopin International Competition" in Warsaw. Among the Italian awards, he won the Crescendo Prize and the fORTissimo Prize in Florence, as well as the X International Competition "Andrea Baldi" in Bologna.

He has collaborated with internationally renowned orchestras, performing with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concerto Orchestra, the Philharmonia Frankfurt, the City of Grosseto Symphony Orchestra, the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra and the Goldoni Foundation Orchestra.

She has performed in important theaters and concert halls, including the Pauline Chapel of the Quirinale in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, with live broadcast on RAI Radio3. He has played in prestigious venues such as the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Royal Park in Warsaw in front of over 3000 spectators, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, where he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 K595.

He currently continues his studies with Maestro Carlo Palese in Livorno and attends the Konzertexamen course at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg under the guidance of Maestro Hubert Rutkowski. It is also supported by the Flugel Fundus.

Great music in Milan

The PIANO IN THE UNIVERSITY Project is the result of an agreement between the Milan branch of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and one of the most important manufacturers in the world of musical instruments, Kawai Pianos of Hamamatsu (Japan). Its promoters are the Master Davide Cabassi (professor at the Milan Conservatory) and Prof. Enrico Reggiani (director of the Studium Musicale di Ateneo) as, respectively, artistic creator and scientific director.
The aim of the Project is to contribute to enriching the musical offer of the City of Milan according to innovative criteria and methods from a cultural-musicological point of view and of the highest artistic profile, first of all, by establishing a chamber music season at the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan which will make use of established and prestigious names in international piano concertism.

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