05/04/2026
🎼 Emanuel Rimoldi 🎹
Initially trained at the Milano conservatory and at the Moscow conservatory with Elisso Virsaladze, Emanuel is prize winner of the Cantù and Pozzoli piano competitions and recently captured the international attention as first prize at the Top of the World Piano Competition in Tromsø, contest reserved to award-winning participants, convincing the jury to prize him ahead of 1 prize winner of Queen Elisabeth competition and laureate winners of Chopin competition in Warsaw and Rubinstein competition in Tel Aviv, which were participating at the same edition.
He is also the winner of the Grand Prix at the international Manhattan Music Competition Ivo Pogorelich. After that he started to perform for the Steinway prize winner network and his interpretations were praised by eminent musicians such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Ivo Pogorelich, Natalya Gutman, Radu Lupu and Elisso Virsaladze. He has performed at the Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie of Luxembourg, Chopin festival in Poland, Salle Cortot, Miami Piano Festival, the Castleton-Lorin Maazel Festival, Gewandhaus of Leipzig, NDR-Sendesaal in Hannover, Gasteig of Munich, Staatstheater in Oldenburg, Rome Opera Theatre, Verdi Hall in Milan, Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.
In Japan he performed at the Minato Mirai hall, Hamarikyu hall, Phoenix hall, Hakuju hall and with the New Japan Phil at the Sumida Triphony hall, as well in many chamber formations with musicians such as Tomoko Kato and Nobuko Yamazaki. His recitals and recordings were broadcasted by Ard, Mdr, Ndr, Bayerischer Rundfunk, National Polish Radio,1 Norwegian channel, European Broadcasting Union and more.
He received enthusiastic reviews on the pages of Suddeutsche Zeitung, the Leipziger Volkszeitung, the Hamburger Abendblatt, Musicweb international and Nikkei shinbun. He has been living in Tokyo since 2021. He is an associate professor at the Nagoya College of Music and a specially appointed professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music, Tokyo.
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