Giuseppe Andaloro, considered one of the leading international concert pianists of his generation, was born in Palermo in 1982. Winner of the Bolzano Ferruccio Busoni Competition, the London World Piano Competition, and of numerous other prestigious international piano music awards, he studied under Sergio Fiorentino and Vincenzo Balzani and graduated with full marks, full honours and special mention from the Giuseppe Verdi State Conservatory of Music in Milan at a very young age. He has performed at renowned festivals, including those of Salzburg, the Ruhr-Klavier, the Due Mondi of Spoleto, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Young Prague, the Pleven, the Ravello, the Rittergut Bennigsen of Hannover, the Ancona MusicAmuseo, the Duszniki-Zdrój Chopin, the Jiménez of Morelia and Sendai Classical, as well as at some of the most renowned concert halls and auditoria of the world, including the Großes Saal and Wiener Saal of the Salzburg Mozarteum, London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Mansion House, and Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Oxford Sheldonian Theatre, the Paris Salle Gaveau, Palais des Arts and Salle Cortot, Tokyo’s Sumida Triphony Hall, Pablo Casals Hall and Metropolitan Art Museum, Rome’s Parco della Musica, the Palazzo del Quirinale and Santa Cecilia Auditorium, Buenos Aires Fernández Blanco Museum, New York Klavierhaus, Mexico City’s Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar, the Munich Gasteig, Toronto’s Walter Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Montevideo’s Auditório Sodre, the Dortmund Harenberg City-Center, Prague Dvorák Hall, Santiago de Chile Oriente Theatre, the Sapporo Kjtara Hall, Palermo Teatro Massimo and Politeama, Tucumán San Martín Theatre, Osaka Phoenix Hall, Porto Auditório do Rivoli, Rabat Mohamed Théâtre, Kraków Philharmonia, Sendai Grand Hall, Fort Worth Bass Performance Hall, Tel Aviv Recanati Auditorium and Pretoria Old Mutual Hall. His repertoire ranges from Bach and Händel to Messiaen, Ligeti and Kapustin. He has toured with internationally acclaimed orchestras, and collaborated in duos and ensembles with various distinguished artists. His performances have been broadcast in several countries and he has a number of recordings to his credit. Giuseppe Andaloro has served on juries for international piano competitions, and given international master-classes. He is also active as a composer and conductor. In 2005 he was given the Award of Artistic Merit by the Italian Ministry of Culture.