Marco Tariello

Marco Tariello, born in 1998, lives in Borgo Virgilio, just outside Mantua. He began studying piano in 2003 at the age of five and in 2007 he began studying at the “Accademia Pianistica di Mantova” with M.

Leonardo Zunica. While continuing his artistic path at the Academy in Mantua, in 2009 he entered the Conservatory of Music “E.F. Dall'Abaco” of Verona and in 2016 he graduated with highest marks and special mention in the class of M. Adriano Ambrosini. He participated for seven consecutive years in the masterclasses and summer lessons held during the Italian-Finnish cultural and musical exchange "Suomitaly - International Music Meeting", perfecting his craft with Maria Ala-Hannula, Alberto Nosè, Yunus Kaya and Katri Säkö-Arias. He also attended several masterclasses under Boris Petrushansky, Lovro Pogorelich, Benedetto Lupo, Andrea Rucli, Konstantin Bogino, Irina Chukowskaya and Filippo Gamba. Furthermore, he attended a postgraduate course at the “Hochschule der Künste Bern” in Bern (Switzerland) under the guidance of M. Thomasz Herbut.
From a very young age, he won national and international piano competitions. In 2014 and 2015 he won the 1st absolute prize at the International Competition "Giuseppe Acerbi" (Mantua), in 2017 the 1st absolute prize at the International Competition "Premio Antonio Salieri" in Legnago (Verona) and in 2018 he won the 1st absolute prize at the International Piano Competition "Città di San Donà di Piave" (Venice) in a jury chaired by Anna Kravtchenko. In 2014 and 2015 he performed recitals in the Eterotopie Piano&Sound Festival with two recitals dedicated to Schubert, Chopin, Liszt. In 2016 he won first prize in his category at "Virtuoso Piano Competition" in London, debuting at the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall together with pianists and musicians from all over the world. The same year he performed Franz Liszt's Concerto No. 1 at the Teatro Ristori in Verona accompanied by the Verona Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of M. Pier Carlo Orizio. In 2017 he was a finalist at the “A. Rubinstein” International Piano Competition in Düsseldorf (Germany). He performed for the “Rassegna Giovani Musicisti” within the musical season “Amici della Musica di Verona” at the Sala Maffeiana (Verona). In 2017 he debuted with a recital at the Teatro Bibiena in Mantua in the “Mantova Musica” season with pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, and Prokofiev, and in 2018 at the Monferrato Classic Festival. In 2018 and 2021 he held recitals at the “Teatro Sociale” in Villastrada (Mantova).
His repertoire includes important pages by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Debussy, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov.