Nicolas Ventura

The Italian pianist Nicolas Ventura is emerging as an interpreter whose reflective mind and fiery passion are the starting points for performances of a carefully selected repertoire.

He extensively played throughout Italy, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Spain and the UK. His last appearances include such halls as the Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building in Oxford, Duke’s Hall and the Brazilian Embassy in London, Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, Fazioli Concert Hall, Teatro Manzoni in Pistoia, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Sölitar at Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Castle of Kalmar, Florianka Concert Hall in Kraków and Danube Palace in Budapest among many others.

In recent years he received many awards among which the “Sir Reginald Thatchers Prize”, “Franz Simmons Prize”, as well as the “Goetze Bequest Award” and the Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music for and outstanding performance in his final recital. Nicolas regularly performs as soloist and with orchestra, recently he performed works by Beethoven, Liszt and Rachmaninov collaborating with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Chioggia, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau and the Danube Symphony Orchestra. Nicolas is an active chamber musician and transcriber, among his latest activities are his original piano transcription of Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite" and Copland's "Lincoln Portrait”.

Nicolas is supported by the Oleg Prokofiev Trust and has been granted the “Oleg Prokofiev Award” which will allow the production and publication of his first commercial recording devoted to the piano music of Prokofiev and Bloch. The year 2023 will also see him involved in the “Complete Medtner Recording Project” in collaboration with his professor Dina Parakhina and in a series of recitals in halls including St Olave, St James Sussex Garden, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Southwark Cathedral and Wigmore Hall in London.

Born in Tuscany, Nicolas studied with Konstantin Bogino and Tatiana Sarkissova. He is an alumnus of the Conservatorio “Cesare Pollini" of Padua, where he graduated with the highest honours and a special mention, and the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with First Class. He is currently pursuing his Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music under the guidance of Dina Parakhina. He participated in masterclasses and had important musical influences from such artists as Boris Berman, Benedetto Lupo, Anna Malikova, Håkon Autsbo, Imogen Cooper, Dmitri Alexeev, Marios Papadopoulos, Piotr Palecny, Vanessa Latarche, Pavel Gililov and Arie Vardi.

Nicolas is an avid reader and writer about classic literature and philosophy.