Leonardo Bartelloni

Graduated from the “L. Boccherini” Conservatory in Lucca with top marks, honors, and special distinction, he pursues an active concert and chamber music career, collaborating with internationally renowned musicians such as Uto Ughi, Massimo Quarta, Rocco Filippini, Mario Ancillotti, Asier Polo, Paolo Taballione, and others.He has been invited to perform by prestigious concert societies inclu ding the Unione Musicale in Turin, the Società dei Concerti in Milan, and the Amici della Musica in Padua. He has toured extensively across Europe, Asia, America, and Latin America. He has won numerous prizes in both national and internatio nal piano competitions, as a soloist and in chamber ensembles.Together with Cristiana Nicolini, he founded the Bartelloni Piano Duo, which, in addition to winning several piano competitions, has performed widely and recorded a CD for the magazine Suonare News. Since 1995, he has been a collaborative pianist at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano.

Valentina Messa

Trained by important teachers such as Piero Rattalino, Pier Narciso Masi, and Enrico Pace, she has won awards in competitions such as Premio Venezia, L. Gante in Pordenone, and Società Umanitaria in Milan.

She is the pianist for Eutopia Ensemble and regularly collaborates with Carlo Boccadoro’s Sentieri Selvaggi. She has performed with Lorenza Borrani, Massimiliano Damerini, Ric cardo Agosti, Ermir Abeshi, Andrea Rebaudengo, Maurizio Ben Omar, Riccardo Crocilla, Adrian Pinzaru, Dami Kim, Maria Milstein, In Mo Yang, Albrecht Menzel, Simon Zhu, and Luosha Fang.

After collaborating with Conservatorio N. Pagani ni - Genova, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Accademia di Pinerolo, she is currently main professor of piano at Conservatorio “G. Ghedini” in Cuneo.

Yannick Rafalimanana

A firm advocate of social music’s value and deeply committed to promoting chamber music by presenting two concert series (Yannick’s Salon in Weissen see, Berlin, and Quartierklänge in Hamburg). A versatile musician, he brings his chamber music repertoire not only to European stages but also to those in the United States, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. He has performed at prestigious venues such as the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra, the Elbphilharmonie, the Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Kennedy Cen ter in Washington, and the Symphony Hall in Boston, playing alongside artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Steven Isserlis, Viviane Hagner, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Kim Kashkashian, and Arnold Steinhardt, as well as with ensembles such as the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Ensemble Resonanz, Le Balcon, Orchestre Impromptu, and the LFO.