Davide Conte was born in 2006 and began studying piano at the age of six. At eighteen, he completed the First-Level Academic Diploma, graduating with full marks (110/110), cum laude and special mention at the “P.I. Tchaikovsky” Conservatory of Catanzaro, where he is currently enrolled in the second year of the Second-Level (Master’s) Degree. In parallel, he obtained his high school diploma from the Liceo delle Scienze Umane with a final grade of 100/100. In 2025, he won the Casella Prize as second-place laureate at the National Premio Venezia Competition, reserved for the best graduates of Italian conservatories, performing at the Sale Apollinee and the Main Hall of Teatro “La Fenice” in Venice. Since 2023, he has been attending—now for the third year—the annual advanced piano course at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in the class of Maestro Andrea Lucchesini. Previously, he completed the professional biennium at the Accademia del Ridotto di Stradella, studying with pianists Aquiles Delle Vigne, Andrzej Jasinski, and Vincenzo Balzani. He took part in masterclass with Daniel Rivera, Riccardo Risaliti, Rubén Daljbaltajan, Boris Berman, Roberto Plano. Over the past two years, he has been selected for intensive masterclasses at the Liechtstein International Academy of Music with maestros Pavel Gililiov and Milan’s Cherniavska. Thanks to several awards he has received, a recording projects is scheduled for 2026 with works by Casella and Bartok for Da Vinci Publishing. At the age of twelve, he made his debut in a solo recital at the Cavagnis Cultural Circle in Venice and, a few months later, performed as a soloist with the orchestra Concentus Musicus Patavinus, playing F. J. Haydn’s Concerto in D Major at the Sala dei Giganti of Palazzo Liviano in Padua. Since then, he has performed regularly at numerous festivals, including Careggi in Musica (Florence), Scriabin Concert Series (Grosseto), the Concerti d’Autunno of the Masiero-Centanin Foundation in Arquà Petrarca, I Concerti del Tempietto in Rome, and the Monferrato Classic Festival, as well as in venues such as the “D’Annunzio” Theatre in Prato and the Sala Eutherpe in León. In 2024, he performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 with the FVG Orchestra, with whom he later collaborated again in a performance of Mozart’s Concerto K. 242 for three pianos and orchestra. Among the main prizes Davide has won piano competitions are the Absolute First Prize at the “J.S. Bach” Competition in Sestri Levante—where he was also declared the overall winner of the entire edition—and at the “Ars Nova” Competition in Trieste, where he received the special Pecar Prize as the best pianist of the competition. He also won second prize at the Youth International Competition Ricard Viñes in Lleida and third prize at the International Piano Competition Béla Bartók in Graz. Alongside his solo activity, Davide has consistently pursued intensive chamber music studies in various ensembles. In a clarinet–piano duo, active since 2020, he is currently a student of Maestro Giovanni Riccucci at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and performs regularly in recital. In piano four-hands duo, continuously cultivated since his early years of study, he continues to expand the repertoire and has taken part in several chamber music competitions with notable results.
He has been a student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica ETS since 2026.
