La Palma d'Oro

28/10/2024

Some off-theater pics 😄

29/09/2024

Finalists

29/09/2024

The 4 finalists.
Good luck! 💪🏻

28/09/2024

Since one of the semi-finalists, Filippo Tenisci, has withdrawn due to his personal reasons, the jury has unanimously decided to substitute the competitor with the first of the excluded candidates.
So the eight semii-finalists will be:

1- KIM Hyunji
2- KUBOTA Sota
3- MARUIYAMA Nagino
4- OHARA Sakura
5- ROSSI PRODI Giacomo
6- CASTELLI Gabriele
7- DE FEO Gabriele
8- HORINOUCHI Anna

24/09/2024

https://lanuovariviera.it/category/eventi/al-concordia-arrivano-pianisti-da-tutto-il-mondo-ecco-la-nuova-edizione-del-concorso-la-palma-doro/

Venerdì 27 ci saranno le audizioni, domenica 29 mattina la finale. Il presidente sarà il cinese Lei Weng che da molti anni vive e opera in Colorado

14/09/2024

All candidates who will play in the morning (no. 1-16) are required to show up and register at the theater at 8.30 am and the candidates (no. 17-40) who will play in the afternoon session are required to register at 14.00.

It will be possible to practise on the grand piano on the stage 2 minutes for each competitor during the breaks.

02/09/2024

We are glad to announce the 50 candidates admitted to the competition!
Within this week we will give you further informations about the schedule and piano studios.
Thank you all and good luck!

30/08/2024

Dear pianists,

we are pleased to announce that we have reached 50 candidates.
We regret having had to reject some of the applications that arrived beyond the established limit.

In the next few days we will publish the list of participants.

We are looking forward to hear your performances here!

26/08/2024

Dear fellow pianists,
this is last week to apply the 8th edition of La Palma d'Oro international piano Competition in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.

🎹We still have 7 places available!

🎹 Registration deadline: 1st September

Please visit our website www.palmaoro.it

HURRY UP!

19/08/2024

..dear pianist friends, we still have 10 places available to apply the 8th edition of La Palma d'Oro international Piano Competition.

Registration deadline: September 1st

Apply on
www.palmaoro.it

HURRY UP!

01/08/2024

1st August update:

36 applications received.

Once 50 registrations are reached, the applications link will be closed

Applications deadline 1st September,
palmaoro.it

17/07/2024

Today let's meet our fifth member of the 2024 jury: M° Vanessa Kleva.

Vanesa Kleva is an artistic and executive director of the Concert hall "Hrvatski dom Split" in Split, Croatia. She is the Piano Loop Festival and Piano Loop Academy founder and director since 2014.
She was born in 1982 and started playing piano at the age of 6. She completed her studies at the Music Academy UMAS in Split, after spending short time as a gast Studentin at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Over the years she studdied with numerous professors: R.Kerrer, L.Natochenny, I.Lazko, L.Baranyay, R.Gubaidullin, O.Cinkoburova, P.Eicher and many others.
Soon upon starting her job at the Music School Josip Hatze in Split as a piano teacher and piano accompanist at the Music Academy UMAS in Split she established Piano projekt Association and Piano Loop Festival and Academy which hosted numerous pianists and piano master classes since 2010 (I.Pogorelić, M.Pletnev, N.Lugansky, D.Shishkin, A.Volodos, L.Natochenny, N.Trull, A.Frolich, K.Gekić, I.Lazko, R.Dalibaltayan, H.Sumino, A.Beisembayev, A.Pompa-Baldi, Y.Martynov, L.Vondracek, G.Filipec, I.Krpan, A.Jurinić). She has been a jury member of the Mozarte International Piano Competition in Aachen, Maria Herrero Piano Competition in Granada, Ferrol Piano Competition, Cesar Franck Piano Competition in Brussels and Piano Loop Competition in Split.
She has been a member of the Croatian National Theater Split Arts council member from 2008-2010 and the president of the City of Split council for Music and Theatre.
She participated in several conferences: HAZU, 2018. and “4.Alumni club” of the Music Department of Music Academy Split, UMAS-a in 2019., "From Dante to the present day".
In 2006 she enrolled in Filosofska Fakulteta Universe v Ljubljani, the Master degree in Psychology of Music and in 2020 she started interdisciplinary PhD studdies at the University of Split in the field of Music and Art History.

02/07/2024

We are happy to announce that we have reached our 25th registration. 🙌

Thanks to all the candidates.

Further updates will be published on August 1st.
Stay tuned!

Applications still open on palmaoro.it

05/06/2024

Today let's meet another member of the 2024 jury, M° Robert Andres.

The Croatian/Portuguese pianist Robert Andres graduated from the Zagreb Music Academy and subsequently received a scholarship from the Soviet government to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with D. A. Svetozarov, a pupil of the great Russian pianist Sofronitski. He continued his studies in Vienna and in the United States where, as a Fulbright scholarship recipient, he studied at the University of Kansas with renowned Portuguese/American pianist Sequeira Costa and earned there a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano, as well as a master’s degree in musicology. He has also received valuable advice from renowned pianists, such as Pierre Sancan, Rudolf Kehrer, Claude Frank, Leonid Brumberg and Peter Katin.
Andres has performed in recitals, with orchestras, and in chamber music concerts in many European countries as well as in Venezuela and the United States. He has collaborated with artists such as Chiara Isotton, Artur Pizarro, Lorenzo Di Bella, Grigori Zhislin and Zakhar Bron. The piano duo with his wife, the Irish pianist Honor O’Hea, has, since 1995, met with enthusiastic response from critics and audiences alike.
After teaching at the Kalamazoo College in Michigan, U. S. A., since 1993 he has taught at the Madeira Conservatory – School of Arts, where he is at present a tenured professor of piano and coordinator of the keyboard department.
He has been on juries of more than twenty international piano competitions and regularly gives masterclasses, most recently in Israel and Washington. Since 1997 he has been Managing and Artistic Director of the Association of the Friends of the Conservatory and is also the Artistic Director of Madeira PianoFest.
Having developed an intense activity as a writer and lecturer on musical topics, Andres has contributed to various prestigious music journals, encyclopaedias and magazines in several countries. In 2001 the Scarecrow Press (U.S.A.) published his book on the beginnings of the scientific approach to piano technique. He is an integrated researcher of INET-md (Institute of Ethnomusicology – Studies of Music and Dance) of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. In 2020 and 2021 he revised and edited two volumes of music for piano of the Anthology of Music in Madeira, and in 2022 year he recorded a CD of piano music written in Madeira in the 19th century.

25/09/2023

2023 Winners

23/09/2023

Finalists announcement