Dino Ciani Festival and Academy

We need you, to bring music and culture to Cortina.

Jeffrey Swann

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One of the greatest pianists of recent decades; an angel who found himself on earth, only to return too soon to his heavenly home.

Paolo Isotta • Corriere della Sera

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A festival with ambitions of becoming the most important musical event at high altitude in Italy.

Corriere della Sera

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Music at high altitude and artistic offerings of the highest level.

Il Gazzettino

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The Festival brings together, in the heart of the Dolomites, the most brilliant stars on the international music scene.

Corriere delle Alpi

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A landmark in the national and international music scene.

Corriere delle Alpi

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Invaluable opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with pianists of international fame/renown and young talents of the keyboard.

Il Giornale della Musica

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Concerts, meetings, and master classes that transmit, even to the youngest, what Dino Ciani was and continues to be.

Amadeus

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This festival is renewed year after year under the artistic direction of Jeffrey Swann.

Il Giornale della Musica

I am left with the memory of the purest of artists, a great poet of the keyboard.

Riccardo Muti

Academy

Accademia Dino Ciani 2015
Cortina d’Ampezzo
August 1-16 2015

 

The mission of the “Accademia Dino Ciani” is to give young, outstanding, international artists the opportunity to develop their skills, to work on repertoire, to live and breathe in an atmosphere of collegial musicianship, and to extend their results onto the concert stage. The Accademia Dino Ciani will take place in Cortina d’Ampezzo during the Dino Ciani Festival from August 1 to 16, 2015. The course will bring together young pianists and chamber groups with professors, musicologists and professional musicians. During this period, students will take master classes, attend concerts and lectures and perform in concerts in Cortina and in the surrounding towns.

 

The following teachers will be in Cortina d’Ampezzo in 2015:

  • Jeffrey Swann (piano), August 1-16
  • Claudio Martinez Mehner (piano), August 1-14
  • Enrico Pace (piano), August 1-5
  • Matti Raekallio (piano), August 7-10
  • Youngho Kim (piano), August 8-15