Costanza Principe
Since her public debut at the age of seven, Italian pianist Costanza Principe has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Italy, France, the UK and South America. Prize winner in national and international piano competitions and one of the most interesting Italian pianists, Costanza Principe ‘plays with taste, abandon and sensual lyricism, just as the timbre finesse of her piano is commendable’ (L’Adige).
Born in 1993, she began performing in public when she was only seven years old, graduating in 2010 at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan under the guidance of Vincenzo Balzani with top marks, honours and distinction.
In addition to her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome, generously supported by the Liversidge Award, the Hilda Day Scholarship, the Winifred Christie Award, the Skyrme Hart Foundation and the Craxton Memorial Trust, she is the winner of international prizes including the Lilian Davies Prize from the Royal Academy of Music in London, the second prize at the Beethoven Society of Europe Intercollegiate Senior Competition (UK), at the Concours International de Piano in Lagny-sur- Marne (France) and at the International ‘Premio Pecar’ Competition in Gorizia (Italy). She has already performed in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, collaborating with orchestras including Filarmonica Toscanini, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Provincial de Santa Fe, Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra and Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra in halls such as Wigmore Hall in London, Sala Verdi of the Milan Conservatory, the Theatres Dal Verme in Milan and Petruzzelli in Bari, Filarmonico in Verona, Politeama in Palermo, Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan, Duke’s Hall and David Josefozitz Recital Hall in London, Teatro 1ro de Mayo in Santa Fe.
She was a guest on TV and radio shows such as “I concerti del Quirinale”, “Piazza Verdi”, “Radio3 Suite”, “Il Pianista” and “Ultimo Grido” on Radio Classica. Highlights of her last seasons include Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Orchestra Toscanini (at the Auditorium Paganini in Parma, and then at the Lerici Festival 2023, conducted by Michele Spotti and Glass Marcano), Introduction and Allegro, and Schumann’s Konzertstück with the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Szymon Makowski, Schumann’s recital in Milan for the 2023/2024 season of the Società dei Concerti, Rachmaninov’s Fourth Concerto under the baton of Valentin Uryupin at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona (where she had already performed the Third Concerto in 2016), the opening of the last season of chamber music of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at the Auditorium Parco della Musica with live broadcast on Rai Radiotre, the representation under the direction of Silvia Costa of Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi cycle with soprano Katrien Baerts for the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.