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…from the first day I discovered somebody with great talent, wonderful musicality, wishing to understand music in a deep way… (Maria João Pires)

... he is one of the most wonderful and complete talents encountered in recent years. His musicianship is really of the finest kind. All parameters of the most complex repertoire are perfectly mastered, and there seem to be very few limits to what he can do, whether artistically, or instrumentally... (Aleksandar Madzar)

... he is one of the most talented pianists I have heard during the last ten years at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. During his performances he always showed a superb technique coupled with an infallible musical instinct. His affinity with Robert Schumann's work is of an extraordinary intensity… (Jan Michiels)

Marco Mantovani, born in Mantova (Italy) in 1992, obtained his Master in ‘Piano Performance’ with the highest distinction at ‘Royal Flemish Conservatory’ of Brussels in the class of Aleksandar Madzar. In 2017 he received the ‘Ingeborg Köberle’ Prize as ‘the year's most promising student’.

He is currently working as accompanying pianist in a choir for unprivileged children founded by Maria João Pires in the aim of her ‘Partitura’ project.

Recently he has been accepted as a PhD student at the VUB in the aim of the Doctorate in the Arts with a project on the interpretation of Schumann’s Piano works composed between 1836 and 1838. His mentors are Maria João Pires, Aleksandar Madzar and Jan Michiels.