{"id":592800,"date":"2022-08-30T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservatoriorossini.it\/docenti\/michele-sampaolesi\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:11:11","slug":"michele-sampaolesi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.conservatoriorossini.it\/en\/teachers\/michele-sampaolesi\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Sampaolesi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor of Piano at the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro, he has taught at the Conservatoires of Fermo, Teramo, and Foggia, and has held piano and chamber music masterclasses at the Conservatorio Profesional de M\u00fasica \u201cF. Guerrero\u201d in Seville. Described by the newspaper *Wolfsburger Nachrichten* as a \u201cfantasievoller Pianist\u201d and by *Il Gazzettino* as \u201ca true virtuoso emerging within the context of the new Italian pianism,\u201d in 2004 he won the absolute first prize, the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic, and the plaque of the Presidency of the Italian Senate at the 21st edition of the \u201cPremio Venezia\u201d Piano Competition. He has collaborated with the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the G. Rossini Symphony Orchestra, and the Solisti di Perugia, among others, under the baton of prestigious conductors such as P. Bellugi, A. Zedda, M. Spotti, M. Diakun, F. Mondelci, R. Molinelli, M. Benzi, P. Ponziano Ciardi, and L. Ferrara. In addition to Italy, he has performed in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, and the United States. His live performances have been broadcast by RAI Uno, Radio France, and RAI Radio 3. He has released several recordings dedicated to Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Brahms, and Shostakovich, receiving unanimous critical acclaim (\u201ca scrupulous interpretation,\u201d *Amadeus*, 4 stars). He studied piano with Ettore Peretti and Giovanni Valentini at the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro, obtaining a second-cycle academic diploma in Piano with the highest marks and honours. He further perfected his studies at the International Piano Academy \u201cIncontri col Maestro\u201d in Imola, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (Texas, USA), and at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Munich, where he obtained the Klavier Konzertdiplom \u201cfor particular artistic merits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Piano at the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro, he has taught at the Conservatoires of Fermo, Teramo, and Foggia, and has held piano and chamber music masterclasses at the Conservatorio Profesional de M\u00fasica \u201cF. 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