Jacopo Giovannini, 2026

Jacopo Giovannini won his first international competition at the age of five, gave his first public piano recital at six, and made his orchestral debut at eleven in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. At the age of fourteen, he graduated with highest distinction from the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia. Following studies with Prof. Bernd Goetzke in Hanover and Prof. Boris Kusnezow in Leipzig, he currently studies with Prof. Claudio Martínez Mehner at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and with Prof. Angelika Merkle at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

Jacopo Giovannini gave his first piano recital at the age of six at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. At eleven, he made his orchestral debut performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in the Great Shostakovich Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. He has performed at international music festivals such as the Reate Festival in Rieti, where in 2010 he played Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with the Tafelmusik Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano. With the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, he performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Further concerts have taken him with the Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra to the Lüneburg Heath, to the Auditorium di Via della Conciliazione in Rome, and to Carnegie Hall in New York. He regularly appears at international music festivals, including the Tuscia Opera Festival, the Lisztomanias Festival in Châteauroux and Paris, and the Young Artists Festival in Kaufbeuren. In 2019, he impressed as a soloist with the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra at the International Piano Festival of Young Masters.