Archives: Deelnemers

Marta Mata

Marta Mata

Marta Mata (1997, Portugal) started playing piano at the age of eight and one year later she entered the Conservatory of Palmela, in Portugal. She continued her studies at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (Lisbon) in the classes of Professors Artur Pizarro and Paulo Oliveira. Currently, she studies in Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Professor […]
Tom De Beuckelaer

Tom De Beuckelaer

Tom De Beuckelaer (1999, Belgium) is regarded as the leading young pianist of his generation in Belgium. He began performing in public since age six and appeared with orchestra in Belgium at age 12, playing Mozart Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. An accomplished pianist, Tom holds the title of several first prizes. […]
Augustinas Eidukonis

Augustinas Eidukonis

Augustinas Eidukonis (1995, Lithuania) has been learning at the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts since 2002, in professor Vida – Emilija Prekerytė’s class. In 2011, he was invited by the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation to participate in its project for talented youth ‘National Students’ Academy’, he regularly participated there until 2014. In 2014, he was accepted to the Royal […]
Juan Pedro García Oliva

Juan Pedro García Oliva

Juan Pedro García Oliva (2001, Spain) began studying piano at the age of eight in the music school in his hometown. In 2013, he started his studies at the Conservatory of Music in Jerez de la Frontera, where he received piano lessons from Eduardo Rodríguez. Since 2019, Juan Pedro has been a student at the […]
Germán García Pérez

Germán García Pérez

Germán García Pérez (1996, Spain) began his musical career in Granada with the teachers Andrei Reznik and Javier Herreros. His studies continued in Badajoz at the ‘Conservatorio Superior de Música Bonifacio Gil’ with maestro Alexander Kandelaki. Here he obtained both an Honorary Degree and the Extraordinary Prize by unanimous vote. After this he went to […]
Jacopo Giovannini

Jacopo Giovannini

Jacopo Giovannini (1997, Italy) starts playing the piano at the age of 4, at 5 wins his first competition with international jury and at 6 he gives his first recital in Palazzo Barberini in Rome. At eleven he gives his debut with 1st Beethoven’s Concerto in Grand Hall Shostakovich in St. Petersburg with St. Petersburg Philarmony Orchestra […]
Alexander Jansen

Alexander Jansen

Alexander Jansen (2005, The Netherlands) has been enchanted by music since he was 3 years old. He was barely 3 years old when he first started ‘conducting at a concert’ that he saw on TV. From the age of 7, Alexander received piano lessons from his mother, piano teacher E.  Jansen. In those years, Alexander […]
Alexandra Kaptein

Alexandra Kaptein

Alexandra Kaptein (1999, The Netherlands) started piano lessons at the age of 5. At the age of six she already won her first prize at the piano competition ‘Jugend musiziert’ in Germany. This was the beginning of a long series of national and international piano competitions throughout Europe. She won the first prize of the […]
Pavle Krstic

Pavle Krstic

Pavle Krstic (1998, Bulgary) is an Austrian-based pianist. He is currently a post-graduate student of Prof. Pavel Gililov, as well as a PhD candidate at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, which is where he holds a teaching assistant position for Musical Forms and Analysis. Pavle gave many piano recitals, first of which was at the […]
Francesco Maccarrone

Francesco Maccarrone

Francesco Maccarrone (1997, Italy) studied piano from an early age, having inherited a passion for music from his uncle Domenico Clapasson, a pianist and composer.  At the age of 9, he was admitted to the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Conservatory in Turin, in the class of Claudio Voghera, under whose guidance he graduated in 2016 with top […]