Filippo Gamba
In 2000 Filippo Gamba won the First Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich. The jury, chaired by Vladimir Ashkenazy, awarded him also the Mozart Prize for the best performance of the Mozart’s piano concerto. Filippo Gamba had already been a prizewinner at numerous piano competitions, including the Van Cliburn, the Leeds, the Gina Bachauer, the Rubinstein-Tel Aviv and the International Beethoven Competition and in 1995 he won the Bremen Piano Competition. He has given recitals at many notable festivals and concert halls around the world and has recorded with Sony and LOL Productions. He has held masterclasses for the Bachauer Foundation, the Music of Southern Nevada, Asolo Musica, Oxford Philomusica. He is Professor at the Musik-Akademie in Basel. Born in Verona in 1968, Filippo Gamba pursued his musical education with Renzo Bonizzato at the Verona Conservatory, Maria Tipo and with Homero Francesch.