Michelle Candotti
Michelle Candotti earned her piano diploma with top honors at age 14 from the “E.F. Dall’Abaco” Conservatory in Verona. She later completed an Artist Diploma in Performance with distinction at the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Dmitri Alexeev, and a Master’s Diploma from the Imola Academy under Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky. She is currently studying with Claudio Palese and pursuing the Konzertexamen at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Hubert Rutkowski.
Recently, she was a semifinalist at the 18th Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, a prizewinner at the 5th Maj Lind Piano Competition in Helsinki, Second Prize winner at the Verona International Piano Competition, Second Prize winner at the 2022 German Piano Award, and Third Prize and Audience Prize winner at the XVII International Competition Gran Prix Animato in Paris.
Ms. Candotti has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacău, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Symphonic Orchestra Città di Grosseto, the Royal Philharmonic Concerto Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Goldoni Foundation, among others.
She gave a concert for the President of the Italian Republic at the Quirinale Palace (Paolina Chapel) that was streamed live by RAI, the national broadcaster. She has also performed in major concert venues including the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Sala Piatti in Bergamo, Royal Albert Hall in London, Atheneum Romano in Bucharest, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Ms. Candotti is supported by the Stiftung Flügel-Fundus.
Virtual First Round
Bach: Prelude and Fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, No. 24 in b minor, BWV 893
Haydn: Sonata in E-flat Major, No. 59, Hob. XVI: 49
I. Allegro
II. Adagio e cantabile
III. Finale: Tempo di Menuet
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5
Chopin: Étude in b minor, Op. 25, No. 10
Scriabin: Etude in d-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12
In-Person Second Round
Chopin: Barcarolle in f-sharp minor, Op. 60
Carl Vine: Resolve
Bartók: Sonata BB 88, Sz. 80
I. Allegro moderato
II. Sostenuto e pesante
III. Allegro molto
Granados: “Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor” in f-sharp minor, No. 4, from Goyescas
Liszt: “Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata” in d minor, No. 7, from Années de pèlerinage, S. 161
Semifinal Round – Chamber Music
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in d minor, Op. 108
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Un poco presto e con sentimento
IV. Presto agitato
Final Round
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in b-flat minor, Op. 23
I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso—Allegro con spirito
II. Andantino semplice—Prestissimo—Tempo I
III. Allegro con fuoco—Molto meno mosso—Allegro vivo
2022 Participants
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