Giovanni Bellucci

After having inadvertently discovered the piano, when he was already fourteen, he started studying at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome under the direction of Franco Medori.

[1] As a result, he could subsequently claim amongst his contacts artists of the stature of Paul Badura-Skoda, Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, and Maurizio Pollini.

[2] Apart from Bellucci, the music critic Alain Lompech only took into consideration artists such as Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau, Aldo Ciccolini, Gyorgy Cziffra, Wilhelm Kempff, and Krystian Zimerman.

[5] "He takes us back to the golden age of the piano", declared the daily Le Monde in highlighting Bellucci's success in the World Piano Masters Competition in Montecarlo 1996[6] – the last in a lengthy series of successes in international competitions (from the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels to the "Prague Spring",[7] from the RAI "Casella" to the "C. Kahn" in Paris, from the "Busoni" to the "Franz Liszt").

[8] All his CDs, published by Decca, Warner Classics, Accord-Universal, Opus 106, Assai, and Danacord, have been awarded by specialist publications: "Choc de l'année" by the Classical magazine Répertoire and "CHOC" of Le Monde de la musique in France, UK Gramophone's "Editor's choice",[9] "5 Stars" from Musica, "5 stars" from the BBC Music Magazine, "Cd exceptionnel" from Répertoire, "ffff" from Télérama,[10] "Best Cd" from the magazine Suono,[11] etc.