Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Award

The Prize, founded in Naples in 1998, by Francesco Nicolosi and the Princess of Strongoli woman Francesca Ferrara Pignatelli, twenty-three years after its birth, reaches its twelfth edition. Over the years the Prize has been awarded to young pianists of absolute value, who, not surprisingly, were subsequently awarded in other prestigious international piano competitions. Above all Michail Liftis, Third Prize in 2004 and First Prize at Busoni in 2009, and Sofia Gulyak, Thalberg Prize in 2006 and First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition also in 2009, and again Dmitri Levkovich (2012), Eugeny Starodubtsev (2016) and Giovanni Bertolazzi (2018), young performers who are making an excellent career.