Cremona Musica Piano Contest: Final and Award Ceremony

Cremona Musica Piano Contest 2026

Final – 4 October 2026

The Competition Jury, composed of Enrica Ciccarelli (President), Nicola Cattò, Loïc Le Fontaine, Cesare Picco and Alberto Spano, will listen to the live performance of the seven finalists and select the winner of the first edition of the Cremona Musica Piano Contest.

The programme of the Final is presented below in order of performance.

Beatrice Baldissin

“NOSTALGIA”
“No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand; […]”
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto V, lines 121–123

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
from Klavierstücke, Op. 118:

No. 1. Intermezzo in A minor
Allegro non assai, ma molto appassionato

No. 2. Intermezzo in A major
Andante teneramente

Guido Alberto Fano (1875–1961)
from Rimembranze:

Preludio
Allegro vivace

Mestizia
Andante sostenuto

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Étude in F major, Op. 10 No. 8

Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20

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Valeria Bianchi

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”

I. Allegro con brio

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Étude in A minor, Op. 25 No. 11 “Winter Wind”

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Allegro in B minor, Op. 8

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Luna Costantini

Karl Weigl (1881–1949)
Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead)
Phantasie für Klavier

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
from Douze Études, L. 136:

No. 11. Pour les arpèges composés

Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
from Triakontameron:

No. 11. Alt-Wien, in G-flat major

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
12 Variations on an Original Theme in C major

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Giulia Falzarano

György Ligeti (1923–2006)
Étude No. 4 “Fanfares”, from Book I of Études pour piano

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2

I. Allegro
II. Allegretto
III. Presto

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22

Andante spianato – Tranquillo, in G major
Grande Polonaise brillante – Allegro molto, in E-flat major

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Ryutaro Sugiyama

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Toccata in C minor, BWV 911

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
from Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68:

VI. Toccata in E minor
Vif

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Étude in A minor, Op. 25 No. 4

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Gabriele Visentin

François Couperin (1668–1733)
Les Barricades mystérieuses, in B-flat major
from Pièces de clavecin, Deuxième Livre, Sixième Ordre

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910

Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Transcendental Étude No. 10 in F minor, S. 139
Allegro agitato molto

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Gabriele Bagnati

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) / Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Chaconne in D minor, from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin, BWV 1004
transcription for piano by Ferruccio Busoni

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Jeux d’eau, M. 30, in E major

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 “Revolutionary”

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