Federico Nicoletta

In 2016 he was awarded Second Prize and the critics’ prize at the “Rina Sala Gallo” International Piano Competition in Monza, and in 2018 the Finalist Prize at the 19th Concurso Internacional de Piano de Santander “Paloma O’Shea”. For the 2019/2020 season he was Artist in Residence for the Società dei Concerti di Milano.

He devotes himself with particular passion to the chamber repertoire, working with the principals of the orchestras of the Teatro alla Scala, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the London Philharmonic, the Opéra de Paris and the New York Philharmonic, and with musicians such as P. Cuper, E. Daniels, Gomalan Brass, U. Lemper, R. Morales, M. Pierobon, Y. Sato and K. Zhu, as well as with ensembles specialising in contemporary music, for distinguished concert societies and theatres (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Festival MiTo, Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, the RTSI Auditorium in Lugano, Palazzo del Quirinale, Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, Ravenna Festival, Teatro Regio di Parma, Lingotto in Turin). In a trio with Francesco Platoni and Simone Nicoletta he received the «SILLUMINA» 2018 prize from the Ministry of Culture and SIAE, which took the ensemble on tour to thirteen Italian cities between 2018 and 2019.

In 2023 he took part in La stanza della musica on Radio3, performing live the Beethoven-Liszt Seventh Symphony together with other Liszt transcriptions and paraphrases. He is a regular guest on the programme “Piazza Verdi” on Radio3, and has been broadcast by Radio Televisión Española, Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana and Rai5. With Corrado Giuffredi he has recorded a Verdi programme for RSI at the Teatro di Busseto, a series of duets broadcast on Rai5, a CD of paraphrases on operas by Puccini (awarded five stars by Musica magazine) and the two Brahms sonatas for the monthly Amadeus.

He took part as répétiteur in the 61st season of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, in productions of Il Trovatore, La Dirindina and Pimpinone, accompanying the “Franco Capuana” International Competition for Conductors, working with Renato Bruson and Raina Kabaivanska, and joining the tour of Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Qatar.

He graduated with honours from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia under Benedetto Lupo, from the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Pietro De Maria and Bruno Canino, in Naples with Stefania Bertucci and in Parma with Pierpaolo Maurizzi, and also holds full-marks diplomas in music education, vocal chamber music and orchestral conducting, the latter with Pietro Veneri.

He is head of the Piano Department at the Rovigo Conservatory and, together with Roberto Prosseda, teaches on the second-level Master’s course Play&Rec at the same institution.