The traditional appointment returns with the winner of the prestigious Venice Prize, which in 2025 saw the young pianist Daniele Martinelli triumph, and which the Bellunese Cultural Circle welcomes on Wednesday, June 3, at 8:30 p.m., at the Municipal Auditorium of Belluno, with a recital featuring the performance of Sarcasmes, op. 17 by Sergej Prokof’ev, Kreisleriana, op. 16 (first version 1838) Eight Fantasies for Piano by Robert Schumann, Selections from Játékok by György Kurtág, and Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, op. 83 by S. Prokof’ev.
The event also marks the awaited return of the Circle "home," that is, to the Municipal Auditorium of Belluno, the hall where the Circle held its first concert in 1951, with the prodigious pianist Nikita Magaloff, and which has hosted the most famous international musicians in the 60 years that followed.
The concert will be preceded by a brief Welcome in music, featuring students from the Piano Class of the “I. Nievo” Middle School, directed by Prof. Radmila Visentin.
"One of the most crystalline promises of the piano in Italy, with remarkable interpretative and performing ability, artistic sensitivity that goes well beyond technique, already well established." Thus, Corriere della Sera presents Daniele Martinelli.
Born into a family of musicians in 2004, he began playing the piano at the age of 8.
First Prize at the XLI Venice Prize at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, First Prize at the XVI National Arts Prize of the Ministry of Education, University and Research at the “C. Monteverdi” Conservatory in Bolzano, as the best student of the Italian conservatories, and Third Prize at the Verona International Piano Competition, receiving great public and critical attention.
Winner of First Prizes at the Steinway Competition in Verona, the XVIII Marco Bramanti Piano Competition, and the Giangrandi-Eggmann Piano Competition, he has distinguished himself in the International Viotti and Pozzoli competitions.
He has performed in major theaters and concert halls in Italy and internationally, as well as at music festivals.
He is supported by the Lieven Piano Foundation in Vienna, which recently involved him in masterclasses with Andreas Staier and Claudio Martinez Mehner.
Daniele Martinelli has a broad interest in lesser-performed repertoire and a strong focus on contemporary repertoire.
He is currently studying at the Conservatory of Milan, where he won the First Absolute Prize of the Conservatory.
He studies in the class of Maria Grazia Bellocchio, with whom he obtained, at the Conservatory of Bergamo, the Academic Three-Year Degree with honors and mention.
Tickets: full € 25, Members € 15, students € 5, on sale one hour before the concert venue.
Information, program notes, and all concerts of the 73rd Concert Season 2026, on the website belcircolo.org.
