Italian pianist and composer Nicolas Giacomelli, born in 1998, has been described as “a pianist who makes you think and dream” (L. Ciammarughi, 2023). Known for his “audacity and perfect mastery of form” (S. Friédérich, Pianiste), Giacomelli’s performances reveal “exceptional intellectual and emotional qualities, along with complete mastery of the keyboard […] underscored by a certain underlying sobriety”.
Nicolas Giacomelli is the recent flrst prize winner of the 4th Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition in Tokyo, marking the beginning of an artistic collaboration with KAWAI. Over the course of his career, he has received awards in over 40 competitions, including the Concours International Piano Campus (France, 2016), Premio Venezia, NTD Competition (USA, 2021), and the Friuli Venezia Giulia International Piano Competition (Italy, 2022). In 2016, he was oThcially awarded the title of Italian musical excellence.
Giacomelli has performed across Europe, America, and Asia, in prestigious venues and festivals such as the Quirinale in Rome, Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, Fazioli Concert Hall, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Sala Verdi at the Milan Conservatory and the Sakura Concert Hall in Shibuya, collaborating with conductors including Marie Jacquot, Benoît Girault, Matteo Parmeggiani and Paolo Paroni. Active in chamber music as well, he regularly plays with violinist Lorenzo Meraviglia and the Àrktos Trio. His recordings and interviews have been broadcast on Rai Radio 3, France Musique and SkyClassica HD. In 2025, he recorded his fourth CD as part of the Brahms Project of the International Academy of Imola.
The key mentors in his training have been Leonid Margarius and Benedetto Lupo, at the International Academy of Imola and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia respectively. He also completed an Artist Diploma at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris under the guidance of Michel Dalberto and Frank Braley. At the same time, he earned a Master’s in Piano (2016) with honors, a Master’s in Composition (2021), and a Master’s in Instrumentation for Wind Band (2019) from the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna. Giacomelli is currently a piano professor at the A.Corelli Conservatory in Messina.
He is student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica ETS since 2025.
