Jacopo Giovannini (no participation due to illness), 2024

Jacopo Giovannini won his first international competition at the age of five, gave his first public piano recital in Rome’s Palazzo Barberini at the age of six, followed by his orchestral debut in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic at the age of eleven. At the age of 14, he graduated with highest honors from the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia. Since 2016, he has been studying with Prof. Bernd Goetzke and Prof. Olivier Gardon at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and with Prof. Boris Kuznetsov at the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig.