Steinway Award for HfMT piano student

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Michelle Candotti won the Steinway Advancement Award 2023, endowed with 1000 euros, for the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. The 27-year-old is studying piano in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's class as part of her postgraduate concert exam studies.

The Steinway Prize was first awarded and presented in 2006 and has been awarded annually ever since. It is organized by the Steinway-Haus Hamburg. The aim of this prize is to support particularly talented students majoring in piano at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, the Bremen University of the Arts and the Lübeck University of Music.

Vita
Michelle Candotti has taken part in numerous piano competitions: Among others, she won the "XV Competition for the best Italian music graduates 2009/10". She won the second prize and the audience prize at the "A. Scriabin International Piano Competition", the second prize at the "Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition", the second prize at the XXIII International Chopin Competition in Rome and the third prize at the "Brescia Classical International Piano Competition". More recently, she was a semi-finalist at the 18th Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, a prizewinner at the prestigious 5th Maj Lind Competition in Helsinki, second prize at the 11th International German Pianist Prize and third prize and audience prize at the XVII International Gran Prix Animato Competition in Paris.