​​Marie-Josèphe JUDE, France

SPECIAL GUEST-Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris

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Marie-Josèphe Jude was born in Nice from a French father and a sino-Vietnamese mother.  She started to learn piano and harp in her home city before joining the Conservatoire de Paris encouraged by G. Cziffra. She worked with Aldo Ciccolini (piano) and Jean Hubeau (chamber music) and was awarded a first prize in Piano and a concert licence in harp at the Ecole Normale in Paris. She then entered the third cycle  in Jean-Claude Pennetier’s class.

 At that time, she regularly attended Maria Curcio-Diamand’s lessons in London. In 1986, she met the composer Maurice Ohana and became one of her favourite performers. She was a finalist at the Clara Haskil Competition in 1989 and won the Victoire de la Musique  in the category « New Talent » in 1995.

This is when her carreer developped internationally; she has appeared in halls and festivals all over the world: from Montpellier to bath, from the Roque d’Anthéron to Kuhmo, from Bagatelle to Locarno, from Colmar to Québec, from Nantes to Tokyo  (Folle Journée)….

She  has played as a soloist under the conducting of Frans Brüggen, Charles Dutoit, Emmanuel Krivine, François-Xavier Roth,  Jean-Yves Ossonce, Arturo Tamayo, Klaus Weise… with orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Bordeaux, the Orchestre National d’Ile de France,  les Siècles, the BBC Scottish Orchestra, Basel Symphonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg, the Brussels Philharmonic and the MDR in Leipzig.

Marie-Josèphe Jude is also a fine chamber musician who plays with Henri Demarquette and Xavier Phillips (cello), Philippe Graffin and Jean-Marc Phillips (violin), Pascal Moraguès and Michel Portal (clarinet). In 1997 she founded a piano duo with Jean-François Heisser but she also plays with Michel Béroff or Claire Désert.

She has recorded many Cds for the label Lyrinx: Brahms, Mendelssohn, Jolivet (Diapason d’Or), Clara Schumann, Dutilleux-Ohana, Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel-Debussy with Michel Béroff. In 2020, was released a CD “Flute Transcriptions”, recorded with Raquele Magalhãe for Nomad Music. After 4 years of teaching at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon (2012-2016), she is now a teacher at the CNSM in Paris.

 In October 2017, she was appointed President and artistic director of the Nice International Summer Academy.

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Michel BEROFF, France

SPECIAL GUEST-Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris

 

Michel Béroff was born in France. After graduating from the Paris Conservatoire in 1966, he won the following year the first prize at the first international Olivier Messiaen Piano Competition. He has been since considered one of the most outstanding interpreters of Messiaen’s music.

During the next years he played with the most prestigious orchestras around the world under the direction of such conductors as Abbado, Barenboim, Bernstein, Boulez, Dohnanyi, Dorati, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Gielen, Inbal, Jochum, Leinsdorf, Masur, Ozawa, Previn, Rostropovitch, Sinopoli, Solti, Tennsted, Tilson-Thomas, Zinman.

As a chamber music partner, he has been very active playing with Martha Argerich, Barbara Hendricks Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay, Pierre Amoyal, Lynn Harrell. During the past years, Michel Beroff has been developing a conducting career. He is currently teaching at the Paris Conservatoire.

Exclusive EMI artist for over 20 years, Michel Beroff has published more than 50 recordings; among them, the complete works for piano and orchestra from Liszt, Prokofieff and Stravinsky, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur . For Deutsche Grammophon, he has recorded Ravel’s left hand concerto with the LSO and Claudio Abbado. His latest recordings include the complete piano music from Debussy for the Japanese label Denon.

Michel Beroff has been awarded five times the “Grand Prix du Disque”. As a publisher, he participated, for Wiener Urtext, to a new edition of Debussy piano music. For the Japanese network NHK, he realized, in 2006, a series of fifteen master-classes on French music. During the last seasons, Michel Beroff played with the LSO under Pierre Boulez, the New-York philharmonic and Kurt Masur, as well as the London Philarmonic for an extensive tour of England and Spain. He undertook three Japanese tours, including one with the Philarmonia with Esa-Peka Salonen, played in concert in Paris the complete works for piano from Debussy and Janacek, and two Prokofieff concerti with the Orchestre de Paris and Christophe Eschenbach.

 He also toured extensively in Germany, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Brazil, Korea and China.

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Paula DEL GIUDICE, Italy

Conservatorio di musica "G. Nicolini", Piacenza

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Pianist and harpsichordist, she graduated top marks at the "G. Nicolini" Conservatorium in Piacenza under the guide of Olga Scevkenova for the piano studies and of Mariolina Porrà for the harpsichord studies.
She then perfectioned with the maestros V. Vitale, M.Tipo, A. Ballista, B. Canino, concerning chamber music. She studied with the maestro Piero Guarino and at the Chigiana Academy in Siena with the duo Gulli-Cavallo, obtaining the certificate of merit.

Winner of many national and international Competitions (Winner of the "Schubert" competition in 1994), she has been intensely active in her concert carreer in various formations alongside illustrious artists at important italian and foreign halls and theatres: Valli Theatre in Reggio Emilia, Municipal Theatre in Piacenza, Bonci Theatre in Cesena, Regio Theatre in Parma, "Rosetum" Theatre in Milano, Stadttheater in Konstanz, Concert Hall in Lausanne…
As a pianist and harpsichordist she collaborated with Symphonic Orchestras such as "Toscanini" Foundation Symphonic Orchestra in Parma, the "OFI" in Piacenza, the "Barocco Veneziano" ensemble and the Camerata Opera Ensemble, always obtaining the best encouragements by the various directors (M° Neuhold, M° Garbarino e M° Gavazzeni, from whom she received a hand written praise).
With the above mentioned orchestras she went on tournées in Germany, Austria, Sweden, France and Japan at prestigious halls such as the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and many others.
She has been an accompanist pianist and teaching assistent at numerous high level courses.
She performed, as a soloist, contemporary music in first execution (some of them dedicated to her) and recorded with Fonit Cetra, Rusty Records and Mondo Musica.

A CD with works by Antionio Lolli for violin and harpsichord with his recording company DYNAMIC (at the violin: Luca Fanfoni) was recently launched.

For a few years now she dedicated herself to the fortepiano repertoire both as a solist and in chamber formations.

Alongside her concert activity she has an intense didactic activity and many of her students won national and international competitions. She teaches piano at the "Nicolini" Conservatorium in

Piacenza.

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Suzana BARTAL, Hungary/France

Ecole Normale de Musique "A. Cortot", Paris

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A French-Hungarian pianist, born in Timisoara, Suzana Bartal moved to France in 2005 where she studied in Paris and Lyon at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, then between 2011 and 2014 at Yale University (United States) where she obtained her doctorate in performance. Winner of the prestigious New York Concert Artists Concerto Competition in 2013, she has performed in venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Auditorium de Radio France, La Seine Musicale, the Auditorium du Louvre and the Salle Pleyel, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Merkin Hall in New York, the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, and Milton Court in London, and in major series such as those of the Opéra d’Avignon, the Opéra de Vichy, the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, the Liszt Raiding Festival (Austria), the Festival de l’Epau, the Berlioz Festival, the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Besançon International Music Festival, and the Turku Music Festival (Finland). Suzana has participated in numerous broadcasts on ARTE, France Musique, Radio Classique, Europe 1, Radio France Internationale, BBC UK, RTE Ireland, RTBF Belgium, BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk), NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), WDR (West Deutscher Rundfunk), DR (Danish Radio), Radio Rai 3, RTS Switzerland, Klassik Radio Austria, as well as on French, Portuguese, Romanian, and Hungarian television. Her latest album of Grieg concertos and the Second Concerto by Saint-Saëns with the Saarland State Orchestra and Sébastien Rouland, released in 2025 on the Channel Classics/Outhere label, was praised by the newspaper Le Monde for its "constant mastery" and received rave international reviews. Her recording of the complete "Années de pèlerinage" by Liszt, released in 2020 by Naïve, received rave reviews: "These three perfect discs (...) crown the new high priestess that Liszt's piano has been waiting for" (Jean-Charles Hoffelé). Acclaimed by international critics, the album notably received a prize from the Liszt Society of Budapest, and five stars from Fono Forum magazine in Germany and Classical Source in the UK. It was also chosen as "CD of the Day" on Radio Klassik Austria.

A highly enthusiastic interpreter of contemporary music, Suzana has collaborated with illustrious composers of today, such as Thomas Adès, Eric Tanguy (whose works she has premiered), and Régis Campo, as well as the film composer Gabriel Yared. She recorded Eric Tanguy's chamber music in 2022, album released by Erato/Warner with Edgar Moreau, Lise Berthaud, Pierre Génisson, Alexandra Conunova and the Diotima Quartet as partners. This CD received the Diapason d’Or of the Year 2022. Also very active as a chamber musician, she performs with violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Josef Spacek, Barnabás Kelemen, Kristóf Baráti, Alina Pogostkina, Rosanne Philippens, Déborah and Sarah Nemtanu; cellists Henri Demarquette, István Várdai and Aurélien Pascal; violists Adrien La Marca and Diyang Mei; clarinetist Raphaël Sévère; trumpeter David Guerrier; the Calder, Adorno, Zaïde and Van Kuijk Quartets; and tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac. She performs as a soloist with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Nationaltheater Mannheim Orchestra, the Saarland State Orchestra, the Savoie Regional Orchestra, the Pasdeloup Orchestra, the Auvergne National Orchestra, the Avignon National Orchestra, the Danubia Budapest Orchestra, the Joensuu Symphony Orchestra, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia, the Norrlandsopera Symphony Orchestra, etc., under the direction of conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Christian Vasquez, Eivind Aadland, Marzena Diakun, Adrien Perruchon, Ariel Zuckermann, Roberto Fores Veses, Kensho Watanabe, and Peter Oundjian. In 2022 and 2026, she was invited to serve as a jury member for the prestigious Liszt Competition in Utrecht. She has been the artistic director of the Piano à Riom Festival since 2020. Since the start of the 2024 academic year, she has been a professor of piano at the École Normale de Musique de Paris.

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Sergio GALLO, Brazil/USA

Georgia State University, Atlanta

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​A Steinway Artist, Sergio Gallo specializes in the repertoire of the Romantic period. He has also championed the work of composers from Brazil, the nation of his birth. Gallo has recorded several acclaimed albums for the Eroica, Naxos, Grand Piano and Quartz labels, with recent releases critically acclaimed by BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone and American Record Guide. In 2011 he won the Global Music Award of Excellence for his album, Mostly Villa-Lobos: 20th Century Piano Music from the Americas. Gallo has performed with orchestras worldwide, and his work has been regularly played on international classical music radio outlets.

Gallo is the winner of concerto competitions of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and of the University Symphony in Santa Barbara. He was the recipient of a grant from the Henry Cowell Incentive Funds at the American Music Center in New York to record works by that composer, with the subsequent recording featuring on The Piano Matters with David Dubal on WWFM. Gallo twice toured North Dakota with a Challenge America Fast-Track Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

He holds the Diplôme d’Excellence from the Conservatoire Européen de Musique de Paris, a Postgraduate Certificate from the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Gallo resides in the US where he is professor of piano performance at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and is on the affiliated artist staff of the Rocky Ridge Music Academy in Estes Park, Colorado.​

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Marina SCALAFIOTTI, Italy

Conservatorio di musica "G. Verdi", Milano

 

Marina Scalafiotti is a pianist, teacher, and cultural project designer active on the international stage. She graduated in piano with highest honors and the jury's congratulations from the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Turin. She continued her studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she refined her skills under Nelson Delle Vigne Fabbri, developing an approach deeply rooted in the European piano tradition and open to contemporary interpretive challenges. She also holds a harpsichord diploma from the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Turin, training that nurtured her interest in the dialogue between musical composition, performance practice, and historical awareness. A recipient of several scholarships from prestigious institutions (De Sono – Associazione per la Musica, Romanini Foundation of Brescia, Ministry of the Budget), she has supplemented her training with numerous workshops and advanced courses with leading figures on the international piano scene.

She maintains an active concert career in Europe, Asia, and North America, both as a soloist and chamber musician. Her repertoire covers a wide spectrum, with a particular focus on 20th-century music and contemporary works. She has collaborated with internationally renowned musicians such as Philippe Entremont, Gianandrea Noseda, Brigitte Autret, Ervin Schiffer, Ran Varon, and Stéphane Lemelin. In 2001, she won the SPEDIDAM Prize at the Orleans International Piano Competition (WFIMC).
Marina Scalafiotti is a tenured professor of piano at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Turin, where she also teaches pedagogy and the study of treatises and methods. Alongside her institutional work, she is regularly invited to give masterclasses and advanced studies in Italy and abroad (France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Canada). Her teaching places central importance on questions of interpretation, pianistic technique, and the transmission of artistic experience.

Her research lies at the intersection of musical analysis and performance practice. She regularly speaks at national and international conferences dedicated to the piano repertoire and 20th-century music. To mark the centenary of Erik Satie's death, she presented her own research in Honfleur, focusing on Satie's legacy and his aesthetic and poetic influence within Les Six, as part of the international conference "Satie 2025: One Hundred Years of Legacy." This presentation contributed to a renewed reflection on the links between musical irony, composition, and performance practice.
Alongside her artistic and academic activities, she maintains a significant practice in artistic direction and design. She is the president and founder of the Orium APS association, initiator and director of the Canavese Music Retreat project (Pianist, Vocal, Organ, and Accordion Summer Retreat), founder of the Telemasterclass digital platform, and artistic director of the AURA – Live Music. Living Places season, dedicated to showcasing historical and landscape heritage through live music. She has also held project management positions for projects supported by public institutions and European programs, notably within the UNESCO Sacri Monti in musica project.

Her career organically combines concert performance, teaching, research, and artistic direction, reflecting a vision of music as a living practice, a space for transmission, and a place of dialogue between tradition, modernity, and place.

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​Elodie VIGNON, France

'En Blanc et Noir', Bruxelles

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On February 2024, Elodie Vignon will present her first concertant album, Songes.

After three solo albums, she pursues studying the French aesthetic and its connections. Under the baton of the Belgian conductor Eric Lederhandler, she recorded with the Czech Virtuosi, for the label Cypres. Vignon released her last solo album Dans l’air du soir in November 2021 (Franz Liszt: Sonnetti di Petrarca, Etudes de concert/ Isaac Albeniz: Spanish Suite), which was very much appreciated by the audience, as well as the critics. Jean-Yves Clément gave her 5 Diapasons, and the CD was a « Choice of the month » on the Belgian broadcast Musiq3 RTBF. It was also awarded by a « Joker absolu » by the magazine Crescendo.

A few months later (Octobre 2022), Elodie Vignon published an album on the same label, with the French contralto Sarah Laulan. Together, they got invited at the Avignon Opera, and many festivals in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

After the release of her first Debussy album in March 2018, Elodie was awarded as part of Debussy Best Performers by the german Pianist Magazine. She performed her album program all over the globe: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, North Carolina, Florida, Christ Church Cathedral of Montreal, as well as the Steinway Hall of New York City.

During the year 2020, Elodie presented her second album D’ombres (Cypres) with a commission of Claude Ledoux, during the Flagey Piano Days Festival in Brussels. This concert came right after the Festival Propulse, hosted in Flagey too, where she played with the dancer and choreographer Nono Battesti their new show « Entre Temps ».

Later this year, she was invited for the Festival du Hainaut in the Palais Des Beaux Arts de Charleroi, and was asked to make the last video of the Festivals de Wallonie 2.0.

As an artist in residence of the Bell’arte foundation for 12 years, created by Nelson DelleVigne Fabbri, Elodie Vignon enjoys an extending of her activity as a soloist and chamber music in both Europe and the USA. Mrs. Vignon has played as a soloist and under direction of such distinguished conductors such as Ramon Tebar or Philippe Entremont, and notably has performed both Frédéric Chopin’s Concerti for piano at the Palm Beach International Piano Festival.

After the classical studies in Lyon (Conservatoire Régional de Lyon), Vignon obtained a Gold Medal in 2001. She moved to Brussels to study with Daniel Blumenthal (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels), where she obtained two Master degrees (piano and chamber music) with a special mention. Consequently, Elodie was invited by many music festivals through Europe. She is also regularly invited as a guest teacher or jury member (Clichy-la Garenne Conservatory, Suzuki Workshop in Brussels, Dudelange Conservatory in Luxembourg, MusicA Braine in Belgium, Concours Andrée Charlier de Charleroi, International Piano Masterclass Festival of Manilla, BAK Middle School in Florida…).

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Chiara CIPELLI, Italy

Conservatorio Superior "G. Nicolini", Piacenza

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Pianist Chiara Cipelli studied at the Conservatory G.Nicolini, Piacenza, at the Musikhochschule Freiburg i. Br. and at the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris where she awarded the scholarship of the Foundation A. Roussel. She holds the Diplome Superieur de Piano from this renowned school. She was awarded a scholarship as “resident artist” to attend the Banff Center for the Arts, Canada,where she was giving both solo and chamber music concerts.

Ms. Cipelli was a prize winner of many national and international competitions and has been invited to play in many concert halls in Italy and abroad: Teatro Municipale, Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza; Auditorium del Carmine, Parma; Piccolo Teatro, Milano; Darmstadt Theater; Steinway Haus, Duesseldorf; Auditorium Haydn, Bolzano; Salle Cortot e Schola Cantorum, Paris, St.Martin-in-the-Fields, London; Taipei Zhong Shan Hall, Taichung; Chung Hsin Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, etc., receiving outstanding reviews. Passionate of chamber music she has played with musicians such as Alfred Rutz, Luca Fanfoni, Elodie Guillot, Rossella Redoglia, Paola del Giudice, Marco Rogliano,etc.

She has recorded for Brilliants Classics, Piano Classics Label, Dynamic.

Ms.Cipelli teaches at Conservatorio G.Nicolini, Piacenza and is a faculty member of the ICPA, (International Certificate for Piano Artists), an artistic career development project by Fondation Bell’Arte, Belgium.

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​​​Allan Duarte MANHAS, Brazil/Germany

Leo-Borchard-Musikschule, Berlin

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​Allan Duarte Manhas started his studies in his hometown Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) at University of São Paulo, under Prof. Fernando Corvisier, later earning the Master’s Degree (minor conducting) and Konzert Examen from the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), under Prof. Marco Antonio de Almeida. Further studies followed at the Fondation Bell'Arte-ICPA (Belgium), under Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri (École Normale de Paris “A. Cortot”).

Allan Manhas has attended masterclasses with acclaimed artists and has won prizes in competitions in South America and Europe. He has been performing as a soloist and a conductor with traditional orchestras and choirs mainly in Germany, Belgium, USA and Brazil.

After several years as an Associate Lecturer at the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, he developed an extensive pedagogical activity in various musical institutions in Germany, especially in Berlin. 

He is often invited to Masterclasses and Festivals in Europe, USA and Brazil. Since 2024 he is Head of the Department for Pre-College Studies and Talent Fostering in the Leo-Borchard-Music-School in Berlin. In 2025 he published his début album "American Preludes: 20th-Century Piano Music of the Americas" (Da Vinci Classics) with music by M. Ponce, H. Villa-Lobos, A. Ginastera and J. Coulthard.

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Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, Italy

Artistic Director

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The Italian virtuoso Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri was born in Argentina. He was instructed by Magda Tagliaferro, Gyorgy Cziffra and Claudio Arrau.
In addition to his performing and recording career that took him to several continents, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri is also a famed international piano pedagogue.
Teaching at the Ecole Normale "Alfred Cortot" in Paris during 40 years, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri was also appointed professor extraordinaire at the Chapelle Musicale "Reine Elisabeth" in Belgium and Honorary Professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University, Florida, USA.
He gives regularly master classes in France, China, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, USA, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, South Korea, etc.
Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri collaborated to the festivities of the European Union Day in Seoul, South Korea, by special invitation of the European amabassador.
Cultural and pedagogical broadening is an important goal of his duties as general director of the Bell'Arte Foundation.
Mr. Delle-Vigne Fabbri, as founder and president of the Fondation Bell'Arte, is the artistic director of MusicA Braine l'Alleud, the Paris International Summer Sessions, LyricA Braine l'Alleud and of the EMS Music Group, a record company and record studio.

He's the founder and artistic director of The International Certificate for Piano Artists, a pedagogical programme in collaboration with many international institutions with sessions in the U.S., Russia, Italy, Lithuania, Taiwan, Spain, Poland, the Philippines, etc. 
After Philippe Entremont's 10-years' presidency, this programme is currently placed under the presidency of Belgian composer Jean Kluger. Jerome Lowenthal and Michel Béroff are its vice-president, preceeded by France Clidat and Lazar Berman.

Nelson Delle-Vigne is the artistic director of the present course.