Giulia Toniolo

Giulia Toniolo, born in 1996, is an Italian pianist. She recently completed an Artist Diploma as an RCM Scholar under the guidance of Professors Norma Fisher and Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London.

In 2023, she obtained a Master of Performance with Distinction at the same institution, supported by the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation Scholarship, and she is currently furthering her chamber music studies with Professor Ivan Rabaglia at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Giulia began piano studies with Maddalena De Facci and, at sixteen, graduated with full marks from the Conservatory “A. Buzzolla” in Adria in Italy. In 2021 she completed a Master Diploma at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo, studying with Pietro De Maria, Andrea Lucchesini and Enrico Stellini.
In recent years, she has played extensively in Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and Brazil, giving solo recitals at prestigious venues. In Brazil, she has played at the Espaço Musical Ricardo Breim, the Auditorium of the Escola de Comunicações e Artes of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP) and the Igreja da Legião da Boa Vontade (LBV) in São Paulo, while in Spain she has appeared at the Centro Cultural Villa de Nerja in Málaga. In the United Kingdom, her concerts have included the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, St James’s Church Piccadilly, the Westminster Music Library in London and the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. In Italy, she has performed at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Muggia, Teatro Diana in Naples, Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Pistoia. She has also participated in leading festivals and concert series, including the Società dei Concerti di Trieste, Piano City Milano 2025, and Bologna Festival.
Giulia has also performed as a soloist with orchestra, including Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the FVG Orchestra; Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the JOL Orchestra of León; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra Concentus Musicus Patavinum; Mozart’s Piano Concerto K 466 with I Solisti di Milano Classica, and Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals with the Monferrato Classic Orchestra.
An active chamber musician, she has performed in violin–piano and cello–piano duos, as well as in chamber ensembles, including Nuovi Concertisti at the 38th Portogruaro International Music Festival, Carniarmonie, and Armonie in Città. She also studied chamber music in trio formation at the Luigi Bon Foundation.
Giulia has won numerous awards in national and international piano competitions, including First Prize at the 30th International Piano Competition “Premio Rospigliosi”, the 27th International Piano Competition “Stefano Marizza” and the 33rd International Competition “Premio Rovere d’Oro”, as well as Second Prize at the 14th Massarosa International Piano Competition, the 6th International Béla Bartók Piano Competition (Austria) and the Tschaikovsky Prize (Switzerland). She was also a laureate of the 24th Chopin Festival in Sochaczew (Poland), performing at the Chopin Museum in Żelazowa Wola and at the Szustra Palace in Warsaw.
Since 2016, Giulia has combined her artistic career with teaching, collaborating with several music schools. She is currently a piano professor at the ‘Umberto Giordano’ Conservatory in Foggia and has also taught piano at the “Lorenzo Perosi” Conservatory in Campobasso and in pre-academic courses at the “Cesare Pollini” Conservatory in Padua.