Ph: Kalò Cassaro
Biography
The Sicilian pianist Maria Pia Vetro is regarded as one of the emerging artists of her generation. Her expressive performances and the original choice of concert programs have taken her to stages across Europe, where she has captivated audiences in Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Russia, and Sweden, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
In early 2025, her debut CD Italienische Reminiszenzen (Kaleidos Musikeditionen) was released and has already been featured in radio broadcasts by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR-Klassik), Hessischer Rundfunk (hr2-kultur), and Radio România Muzical. It has been praised by critics – including pizzicato.lu and Klassik Heute – for its remarkable charm, clarity, musicality, and poetic sensitivity.
Maria Pia Vetro has performed at prestigious festivals and concert series, including the Chopin Gesellschaft in Darmstadt, the Richard-Wagner-Verband in Bonn, the International Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesellschaft, the Woelfl-Haus in Bonn and the Neckar Musikfestival in Heidelberg. Other highlights of her career include concerts at the Rachmaninoff Festival in the Dialog Concert Hall in Velikij Novgorod, Russia, the Paderewski Piano Academy in Poland, the Aurora Chamber Music Festival in Sweden, the Trinity Festival in Croydon, the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, as well as Piano City Pordenone, the Incontri Musicali of the William Walton Foundation in Ischia, and the Viotti TEA in Vercelli, Italy.
Since 2022, she has been a regular guest of the concert series Weltklassik am Klavier (Germany).
Maria Pia Vetro has also collaborated with various orchestras, including the Ukrainian Chamber Orchestra Harmonia Nobile and the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, and she has received numerous awards at piano competitions, including the Premio Crescendo in Florence, the competition Città di Piove di Sacco, and the competition Riviera Etrusca.
In 2025, she was awarded a scholarship from the Richard-Wagner-Stipendienstiftung, on the recommendation of the Richard-Wagner-Verband in Bonn.
Maria Pia Vetro received her Master of Music degree in piano in 2019 under Professor Fabio Bidini at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. She further enriched her artistic development through two years of advanced studies with Professor Daniel Rivera and by attending masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Benedetto Lupo, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Rena Shereshevskaya, Homero Francesch, Ilja Scheps, Peter Donohoe, and Polina Leschenko.
Calendar
Concerts 2026
29.05.2026・17:00
Piano Recital
Jeanpauliana: von Träumern, Tänzern und Luftschlössern
Heller, Riemann, Schumann
☞ Kunstwerkstatt am Hellweg
Wattenscheider Hellweg 9
44869 Bochum-Wattenscheid
http://www.kunstwerkstattamhellweg.de/aktuelles/
07.06.2026・
Piano Recital
Italienische Reminiszenzen (CD-Präsentation)
Clementi, Respighi, Liszt
☞ Palais Lichtenau
Kurfürstenstraße 40, 14467 Potsdam
https://palais-lichtenau.de
13.06.2026・17:00
Piano Recital
Italienische Reminiszenzen (CD-Präsentation)
Clementi, Respighi, Liszt
☞ Kultur i Missionshus
Pihlvägen 2, 71 230 Hällefors (Schweden)
https://www.missionshus.se/konserter
CD “Italienische Reminiszenzen”
"[…] She is capable of a very alert and spontaneous playing and also shows a great poetic sensitivity. […] the brilliant Rigoletto paraphrase, which Maria Pia Vetro plays with fine differentiation and makes quite exciting."
12/02/2025 - Norbert Tischer, pizzicato.lu
"With great taste and a fine ear for sound, the pianist champions the piano works of her fellow countryman Respighi […] She displays her utterly pure virtuosity in three of the Sei Pezzi per Pianoforte. […] she wraps the Rigoletto melodies in an iridescent veil full of embellishments and arpeggios: overwhelming and simply charming. One is happy to hear this young pianist again – and curious to see what other rarities she will uncover."
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