| COMPETITORS | 2020 EDITION |
MARCO RIZZELLO
Age: 22 | Country: Italy
Marco Rizzello was born in 1997. He made his first major public appearance at the age of thirteen, selected by RAI to perform at the “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium in Turin, in the television program “The great concert”. Winner of several piano competitions he has performed regularly since the age of fourteen. He has played in important Italian cities (Rome; Milan; Venezia – Sala grande at La Fenice; Turin; Bologna; Modena; Padua; Grosseto – Beethoven’s Piano Concerto n. 1 op. 15 at the Teatro degli Industri; Florence; Arezzo; Pesaro; Treviso; Vicenza – Settimane musicali al Teatro Olimpico; Ravenna – Chopin’s Piano Concerto n. 1 op.11 at the Teatro Alighieri; Cesena) and abroad in Denmark (Aarhus, Musikhuset; Viborg, Campus Auditorium Viborg Musikforening), Holland (Enschede, Artez Conservatorium), France (Courbevoie-Paris: Conservatoire municipal de musique) and Austria (Innsbruck, Ursulinensäle Musikschule). His current teachers are B. Petrushansky, M. Van Gent and V. Egorova.
REPERTOIRE
Preliminary Round:
S. Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau Op. 39 No. 8
F. Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 6
Semifinal Round:
F. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12
S. Rachmaninoff: Études-Tableaux Op. 39 Nos. 2, 3, 4
Final Round:
F.J. Haydn: Sonata Hob. XVI:49
R. Schumann: Symphonic Études, Op. 13
PRELIMINARY ROUND
SEMIFINAL ROUND