Michelle Candotti

Italy Birthdate: 18.05.1996

Competitor number: 6

Born on 18 May 1996 in Livorno. At the age of fourteen, she graduated from the Evaristo Felice Dell’Abaco Conservatory of Verona, under the supervision of Laura Palmieri. She is currently studying with Enrico Pace at the ‘Incontri col Maestro’ Academy in Imola and with Carlo Palese in Livorno. She has won the Competition for Best Italian Music Graduates (CD recording), as well as prizes in the Scriabin Competition in Grosseto, the IBLA Competition in Sicily, the Busoni Competition in Bolzano and also competitions in Madesimo, Rome and Hastings. She has performed in concert with the Goldoni Foundation Orchestra (cond. Mario Menicagli), the Bacău Philharmonic (cond. Ovidiu Balan), the Grosseto Symphony Orchestra (cond. Gudni Emilsson), the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (cond. Brian Wright) and the Orchestra Nova Amadeus (cond. Nicola Samale). In 2012, she entered the class of Andrea Bonatta at the Eppan Piano Academy. She has given recitals in many Italian concert halls (incl. in Bologna, Padua and Florence), and also in Hastings and at the family home of Claude Debussy in Saint-German-en-Laye. She has taken part in masterclasses given by Franco Scala, Boris Petrushansky, Roberto Plano, Aquiles delle Vigne, Joaquín Soriano, Daniel Pollack and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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