Onde Musicali Festival on Lake Iseo. The piano talent camp features prodigy Aidan Keane.

The International Piano Campus, organized by the Pianofriends association at the Tadini Academy in Lovere, begins today and runs until July 27th against the picturesque backdrop of Lake Iseo. It involves around ninety young pianists from around the world. The Campus will offer two weeks of advanced musical training, opportunities for cultural exchange, dialogue, discussion, and concerts open to the public. Internationally renowned maestros Vincenzo Balzani , Yuri Bogdanov , Philippe Raskin , and Giuseppe Andaloro will guide participants through sessions of in-depth study and improvement.

Alongside them, special attention will be given to the youngest students, thanks to the presence of Catia Iglesias and Giovanna Di Donna , who will offer their expertise in courses dedicated to the new generations of musicians. The Campus will culminate in a rich program of concerts, featuring the participating pianists themselves: a unique opportunity to discover the very promising young talents of classical music while immersing themselves in a setting of rare natural and cultural beauty. The inaugural concert of the International Piano Campus, scheduled for today in the Sala degli Affreschi of the Accademia Tadini (9 pm), will feature the talented eighteen-year-old Irishman Aidan Keane (pictured), winner of numerous awards in national and international competitions and the Piano Talents Milano Prize at the 2024 César Franck International Piano Competition in Brussels. Keane will play works by Beethoven, John Field, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, and Chopin, and will be followed by performances by other Campus students.

In the following days (always at 9 pm), other young talents will be available on July 14th, 16th, 18th (with the kids' section at 6:30 pm), and 19th, when the final concert of the first round will take place, conducted by Balzani and Bogdanov. Following the Irishman (Sunday the 20th at 9 pm), fifteen-year-old Italian-Croatian Mattias Antonio Glavinic , this year's overall winner of the Steinway Piano Competition for Young Talents organized in Italy, will take the stage at the Accademia Tadini. He will represent Italy at the international Steinway Young Talents in Concert festival, performing at the prestigious Laeiszhalle concert hall in Hamburg next September. In Lovere, Glavinic will perform scores by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Ravel. The second phase of the Campus will follow, led by Balzani, Raskin, and Andaloro, with evening concerts scheduled for July 22nd, 24th, 25th (kids' section at 6:30 pm), and 27th. Finally, at 9:00 pm on Sunday, July 20th, at the Santopresso church in Costa Volpino (Bergamo), the sacred vocal music concert "Prière pour la paix" will take place, featuring Annalisa Soli (soprano), Giovanna Baldini (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Sevardi (violin), Leonardo Pini (organ), and students from the class of mezzo-soprano Marina Comparato. Free admission.

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