Venetian, he studied piano with Maria Italia Biagi, an illustrious pupil of Rio Nardi and Alfredo Casella. He graduated from the Conservatorio ‘Benedetto Marcello’ in Venice with top marks, honours and special mention, also winning the ‘M. Mazza’ prize as the best student in the Piano School. He studied chamber music with Sergio Lorenzi, Franco Rossi and Antonio Janigro. He furthered his studies at the ‘Mozarteum’ in Salzburg and at the ‘Association Musicale de Paris’ where he won a ‘Premier Prix’ in Chamber Music. He has won numerous national and international competitions.

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During his intense concert activity as soloist, with orchestra and in chamber ensembles with illustrious international instrumentalists, he has played in the most prestigious halls in Italy (Teatro alla Scala and Sala Verdi in Milan, Teatro La Pergola in Florence, Teatro Grande in Brescia, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Sala Verdi in Turin, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Olimpico in Rome), France (Auditorium of the Louvre Museum in Paris), Austria (Musikverein in Vienna), Japan (Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo), Spain, Germany, former Yugoslavia, United States of America, Bulgaria, Turkey, Albania, Canada, Portugal, China, former Soviet Union.

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A passionate Mozartian, he has performed almost all of Salzburg's chamber music with piano, numerous concertos for piano and orchestra and the complete piano sonatas and compositions for piano duo. He has been performing intensively in a duo with cellist Mario Brunello since 1980. Since then, the two musicians have played together in more than 170 concerts. With the American pianist Gustavo Romero, he has performed the complete compositions for piano 4 hands and 2 pianos by Mozart several times in the United States and Italy.

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Massimo Somenzi is a piano teacher at the Conservatorio ‘Benedetto Marcello’ in Venice and was director of the Conservatorio ‘Agostino Steffani’ in Castelfranco Veneto for a decade. He has served on the juries of important national and international competitions. He regularly holds masterclasses in Piano and Chamber Music in Italy and abroad.