Olaf John Laneri

Olaf John Laneri was born in Sicily from Italian father and Swedish mother; he takes his diploma with honours at the Verona's Conservatoire, and then he continues his artistic education in Italy at the Piano-Academy of Imola, where he graduates as a Master in 1998.

After several 1st prizes in national competitions, he results prize-winner at the international competitions of Monza , of Tokyo and Hamamatsu. In the summer of 1998 he wins the 50th edition of the competition "F. Busoni" of Bolzano (2nd prize "with particular distinction"; 1st prize has not been awarded), where he already distinguished among the finalists the previous year and in 2001 gains the 2nd prize at the World Music Piano Master of Monte-Carlo. About his performance of Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Paganini, included, only one recording of an Italian contestant, in a CD published for the 50° Anniversary of the competition, A. Cohen writes on International Piano: “Certainly the best live performance I ever heard”. He is invited to play for prestigious theatres in Italy and in Europe, in recital and with the Orchestra ("I Pomeriggi Musicali" in Milan, the Orchestra of the Arena Theater in Verona, with the Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montecarlo). He played at the Festival “A. B. Michelangeli” of Brescia and Bergamo, at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, at La Pergola of Florence, at the Tiroler Festspiele in Austria , at the Ruhrfestival, in the Herkulessaal and at the Gasteig of Munich, in the Salle Cortot, in the Salle Gaveau and for Radio France in Paris, in Salle Molière in Lyon, at the Festival Paderewski and Chopin in Poland, at the Gijón Piano Festival, at the Opéra of Montecarlo, Rudaki hall in Tehran.
His repertoire includes all the 32 Beethoven’s piano sonatas together with 10 sonatas for piano and violin, played with Laura Marzadori.