Birthplace: Bergamo, Italy | Studied in: Bergamo, Italy and Berlin, Germany | Resides in: Berlin, Germany
Twenty-five-year-old pianist Giorgio Lazzari—top prize winner at International Telekom Beethoven Competition (Bonn) and Robert Schumann Competition (Düsseldorf)—is known and appreciated for his interpretation of German and Austrian classics.
He has extensively performed as a soloist and with orchestra in many European venues, and for renowned festivals such as Klavier Festival Ruhr, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Schumannfest, Beethovenfest, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Vaduz Classic, Società Filarmonica di Trento, Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo, Milano Musica, Amici della Musica di Padova, Kirchheimbolanden Festival, GIA Brescia, Musica Insieme Bologna, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Trame Sonore, and Harmonies en Livradois.
In addition to his solo career, Giorgio is a devoted chamber musician, particularly with violinist Sofia Manvati, with whom he founded the Duo Rodin.
Very interested in contemporary repertoire, Giorgio has had the chance to work with composers such as Stefano Gervasoni, Alessandro Solbiati, and Olivier Cuendet, focusing on their solo and chamber music works. He also performed Solbiati’s Corde e Martelletti at its premiere for the 2019 Trame Sonore Festival (Mantova).
Giorgio is a scholarship holder from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein where he studied with Pavel Gililov, Claudio Martínez Mehner and Marc Bouchkov – and was recently honoured with the Roscini-Padalino Award by Perugia Musica Classica.
Born in 2000, Giorgio completed his studies at Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti (Bergamo) under the guidance of Maria Grazia Bellocchio and is currently studying with Kirill Gerstein and Jonathan Aner at Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.