Leonardo Colafelice’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Italian musician
Is Musician 
Pianist 
From Italy 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 11 October 1995
Age: 24 years
Star sign Libra

Leonardo Colafelice (born October 11, 1995) is an Italian pianist.

Colafelice was born in Altamura, Bari and started playing the piano when he was 8 years old. He is currently studying with Pasquale Iannone at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Music in Bari, Italy. He won the first prize in over 60 international piano competitions, among them the Gina Bachauer Young Artists International Piano Competition, the Cooper International Piano Competition, the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, the Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition, the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, and the Aarhus International Piano Competition. He was a finalist in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition where he won special prizes for Best Performer of a Classical Concerto ($5,000), Best Performer of a piece by Chopin ($3,000) and the Advanced Studies Grant for the most outstanding pianist 22 years of age and below of $1,000 a year for three consecutive years, in addition to the $6,000 finalist prize. He has performed with several orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and has collaborated with such conductors as Giordano Bellincampi, Jahja Ling, Avner Biron, Asher Fisch, Frederic Chaslin, Eugene Tzigane, Tito Muñoz.

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