Winner of Premio Venezia 2019 – a competition for the best graduates of Italy – Elia Cecino has been awarded prizes in several international competitions, including Ettore Pozzoli International Competition, Alessandro Casagrande Piano Competition, R. Schumann International Competition, Concorso Luciano Luciani, Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition, International Chopin Piano Competition, International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition, and Concorso di Pianoforte “Marco Bramanti.”
Cecino has also performed as a soloist with the Düsseldorf Symphoniker, Sichuan Philarmonic Orchestra, Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, Joven Orquesta Leonesa, FVG Orchestra, Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi, Orchestra del Concentus Musicus Patavinus, Orchestra San Marco of Pordenone. In addition, he has performed solo recitals in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, and took part in a concert tour in the USA in 2017.
Cecino graduated summa cum laude from Cesena Conservatory with Maddalena De Facci. He now studies with Eliso Virsaladze at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and Andrzej Jasinski at Accademia del Ridotto in Stradella.
You can hear Cecino’s First Round performance during Session 1 on Thursday, July 30.