Artist · Piano
Sebastiano Mesaglio
Biography
Sebastiano Mesaglio
“Mesaglio plays with great freedom and fantasy yet logically joins the varied sections of every movement into a satisfying whole.
His fleet passagework is pristine and pearly”. American Classical Record – Febbraio 2023
“A pianist who truly is a musician in the widest sense: he makes use of intellect, fantasy and sensibility achieving an admirable balance” Luca Ciammarughi – Radio Classica
“Mesaglio has an ideal understanding of Beethoven’s writing, thanks to his sensitive, educated personality, and a stainless pianism which stands out in sound quality and immaculate technical expertise, as much as virtuoso and as lyricist” Alessio Screm – Messaggero Veneto
Born in Udine, Italy, in 1990, Sebastiano Mesaglio approaches the world of music at the age of four and since his childhood he has been a student of M° Giorgio Lovato, who had a decisive influence on his piano playing. He studied at his hometown Conservatory, graduating cum laude at the age of twenty. He took part in several competitions, often winning prizes like the Absolute 1st Prize at the “J. S. Bach” National Piano Competition in Sestri Levante when he was fourteen years old.
Winner of the Absolute 1st Prize also at the 2005 and 2010 editions of the National Piano Competition “J. S. Bach” in Sestri Levante, in 2016 he has been 1st Prize laureate both at the International Piano Competition “Città di Albenga” and at the National Piano Competition “Giulio Rospigliosi” in Lamporecchio. The following year he is one of the three finalists of the NYCA Worldwide Debut Auditions in New York, performing as a soloist with NYCA Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eduard Zilberkant. In 2019 he won the “Westby Prize” (Absolute 1st Prize) at the National Music Competition “Città di Piove di Sacco”.
Willing to improve his technique and his musical awareness, after his Conservatory diploma he obtains four more degrees: one in Piano and one in Fortepiano and Romantic Piano both at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola with M° Stefano Fiuzzi, the “Diplôme Supérieur d’Enseignement” at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot” with M° Bruno Rigutto and the Master in Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with M° Fabio Bidini.