Massimiliano Turchi has just won the Fourth Prize at the Shanghai International Youth Piano Competition, and with this he also ensured the partecipation as a finalist at the Competition in Malta in 2021.
The Competition in Malta will be the one with the highest prize pool ever released in history, and only winners of some Competitions around the world in 2019 and 2020 will be eligible to partecipate.
Massimiliano and Eleonora have been invited as teachers (Massimiliano as Piano and Chamber Music, Eleonora as Violin, Viola and Chamber Music) at the Souland Music Institute in Hangzhou, China.
Since May 2019 they are professionals taking part of a strong team with the aim of preparing students to study in colleges and important Music Schools in Europe and in the world.
Check the News page for future updates about concerts, competitions and more in China!
TulipDuo is going to perform next week (Sunday 20) in Leyhoeve in Tilburg.
The program will be made of: Schumann Sonata no. 1, Dvorak Romantic Pieces, Meditation from Thais of Massenet and the B minor Sonata of O. Respighi.
TulipDuo has won the Concert Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition of Cremona, Italy.
The prize consists of a concert in a prestigious hall in Milan, Italy, for the year 2019. Date and location to be defined.
TulipDuo has won the First Prize and a concert in 2019 for the Association “Amici della Musica” of Padova.
They have been selected out of several applications and they received the First Prize acting unanimously.
The Duo has been selected as one of the eight young perfomers at the Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Festival 2018.
The Festival also has a competition, awarding the best perfomers out of the eight groups selected.
They will perform on the 22nd of November 2018 at 13:15 (local time) at the Recital Hall of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR)
The program includes: Schumann Sonata in A minor, Op.105, Respighi Sonata in B minor, P.110
For further details please check the website of the event:
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/bicpf-young-artists-bukolika
TulipDuo won the First Prize in the Chamber Music category at the International Music Competition “Rizzardo Bino” of Brescia.
In the program, they played pieces of Mozart and Respighi.
Here is a link of the article in “BresciaOggi”:
http://www.bresciaoggi.it/home/spettacoli/musica/rizzardo-bino-il-trionfo-dei-talenti-1.6638172
The duo is going to perform this Sunday 24th of June at 15 at the Conference Hotel Landgoed Huize Bergen organized by Vught Klassiek.
Check the website www.podiaklassiek.nl for further info.
The program will have the Violin Sonata in D major KV 306 of Mozart, three romances by Clara Schumann and, after the break, the Respighi Violin Sonata P.110.
The address of the location is:
In the past weeks not many updates came out, but for a reason: Eleonora graduated in the Bachelor in Violin Performance at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam the 13th of June and Massimiliano graduated in the Master of Piano Performance the 19th.
Both had very high grades, and received a large amount of compliments from the jury and the audience.
In the performance at Eleonora’s exam the Respighi Violin Sonata received the highest grade, as well as an “Excellent performance, nothing to say”.
During the exam of Massimiliano, the most touching moment has been the Suite Bergamasque of Debussy, receiving comments from the jury such as “Real moments of Poetry there”, “Huge personal attitude and artistry”.
Sunday 13th of May the TulipDuo is going to perform during an event full of artists and music at De Hallen in Amsterdam.
The Facebook event with the schedule of all events and the details of the duo playing can be found following this link:
In the program there will be Mozart Sonata in D major KV 306, Clara Schumann three Romances op 22 and the russian song of Stravinsky.
