Jury 2025

Described as ‘a masterful pianist with a bold and intriguing personality’ by Bryce Morrison (Gramophone Magazine), he trained with Maestro Scala at the Accademia Pianistica di Imola, where he is currently a teacher and Deputy Director. He regularly gives solo and chamber music concerts in theatres such as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Gran Teatro ‘La Fenice’ in Venice, the Auditorium Santa Cecilia in Rome, the ‘Al Bustan’ Theatre in Beirut, the Sala Verdi in Milan, the Stoller Hall in Manchester, the Raanana Music Hall, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Beijing Capital Theater and the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki. He has performed as a soloist with Hamburger Symphoniker, Teatro Regio in Turin, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Württembergische Philharmonie, North Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra Mozart, Arena di Verona and regularly performs for prestigious festivals around the world, collaborating with internationally renowned musicians. He is a passionate interpreter of the 20th century and ambassador of French music, performing the complete works of composers such as Ravel, Dutilleux, Poulenc and Debussy. 

He is a guest lecturer at Princeton University (USA), the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, the Fundación Musical Símon Bolivár de Venezuela, the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in Maastricht and the Regia Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna. He is editor of the Italian edition of the book ‘Gli errori fisiologici e la trasformazione della tecnica pianistica’ by F. A. Steinhausen (Libreria Musicale Italiana, LIM). 

André Gallo is a Yamaha Artist. 

Andreas Groethuysen, born in Munich, studied piano mainly with Ludwig Hoffmann in Munich and, with the support of the ‘Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes’, with Peter Feuchtwanger in London.

After several years of concerts and recordings mainly as a soloist, Groethuysen joined forces with Yaara Tal to form a piano duo, which has since become the focus of his artistic activity and the duo is active in international concert life with performances in most European countries, Asia, North and South America. 

In constant cooperation with the SONY CLASSICAL label, the duo has released an unprecedented series of 40 CDs, which have met with great acclaim from the public and the international press. The duo has won numerous awards (including the German Record Critics' Prize eleven times, the “Echo Prize” five times, most recently the “Opus Klassik 2021” and the “Cannes Classical Award”) and enriched the market with numerous first recordings. The focus of their publications is certainly the recordings of the complete works of Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Andreas Groethuysen teaches solo piano and piano duo at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and he is often a member or chairman of juries at international piano competitions.

After obtaining his diploma in piano with top marks and honours at the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato ‘G. Verdi’ in Ravenna, under the guidance of Prof. Anna Baldrati, Mauro Minguzzi followed various specialisation courses for ten years, studying with Maestros Franco Scala and Pier Narciso Masi. 

Under Maestro Masi's guidance, he obtained a diploma of high specialisation in chamber music at the Accademia Pianistica di Imola and at the Accademia Musicale di Firenze, always achieving top marks and honours. 

For 40 years he has been dedicated to teaching piano to children and young people and he holds master classes for pianists who have already graduated. He is also invited to sit on juries of national and international competitions. Many of his pupils have been awarded first prizes in national and international competitions and several times his class has won first prizes; many pianists who graduated under his guidance are now teachers in various parts of Italy and abroad. 

He has taught at the ‘A. Corelli’ School of Music in Fusignano and currently teaches piano at the ‘G. e L. Malerbi’ Musical Institute in Lugo, Ravenna.

She was born in Buenos Aires, where she began her musical studies. Still very young she won, in her native city, the Piano Competition "V. Scaramuzza" and a scolarship that took her to Italy, where she has attended the Conservatory "Santa Cecilia", graduating with distinction.

At the same time, she undertook an intense concert activity, both as soloist and in chamber music ensembles, performing a repertoire ranging from Baroque music to Contemporary composers, also receiving significant prizes and recognitions in national and international competitions, among them "F. Busoni" (Bozen) "A.CaseIIa" (Naples), "Città di Senigallia", "Città di Treviso", "A.Speranza" (Taranto).

She has also held masterclasses and concerts in Italy, Argentine, Croatia, Slovenija, Albany, Somalia and for the European Comunity.

A lot of her pupils have been more than three-hundred awarded between the first and second prizes, in important competitions, such as the "Claudio Abbado"(National Prizes of Arts), "Steinway" (Jeunes Talents) Paris, "Roma”, "Riviera Etrusca", "Giulio Rospigliosi", "Pietro Argento”, "Premio Venezia", "Rovere d'Oro", " V. Bucchi".

She has been piano professor at the Conservatory "Gioachino Rossini" in Pesaro and at the Conservatory "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence.

She also takes part in juries in international piano competitions.