Stefania Passamonte

Concert Pianist and Artistic Director of the Classical Department of the LONDON PIANO MASTERS masterclasses.

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“Stefania is a wonderfully passionate musician who is highly involved in what she plays...and she brings to her playing a refreshing honesty and an appealing enthusiasm”. London based artist, Stefania is an Italian pianist from Modena with a wide international experience, from concert performing to solo recording.”An unusually gifted young musician..”, Stefania has given recitals all around Europe and was selected to performe on the stage of the most famous International Piano Competitions as the Chopin Competition of Warsaw 2005 (in television, radio and internet broadcasting), the “Maria Canals” of Barcelona and the Valencia Competitions in Spain, the Porto Competition in Portugal. Stefania won several acknowledgments and scholarships, among which the prestigious “Premio Ghirlandina” given by the Rotary Club in Modena to an artist “distinguished in the international panorama for special merits and success”. “She has a virtuoso flair and a great imagination but most relevant of all is perhaps that she possesses a rare gift of communication.” The Concert Recital Diploma with famous music critic Piero Rattalino at the “St. Cecilia” International Academy in Portogruaro (Venice) opened her interest in researching the different styles and traditions of the piano techniques and interpretations from the very source. She therefore refined her Russian repertoire with Anton Naumov and Emmanuelle Krasovskij, her Spanish repertoire with Joaquin Soriano and Emmanuelle Carra (student of Albeniz), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's repertoire and techniques with Isacco Rinaldi (his only assistant). Stefania gained as well the Postgraduate Diploma in Piano at the Royal Academy of Music of London with Ian Fountain and Christopher Elton. She then completed her studies with Jacques Lagarde (student of Alfred Cortot) at the Ecole Nornale de Musique de Paris “A. Cortot” for refining her Chopin and French repertoire. “Impressed by her fine and original talent...Her playing is characterized by a powerful ability to communicate with the audience...sense of drama and genuine spontaneity”