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45th International EPTA Conference

16-19 NOVEMBER 2023
Rome, Italy

The importance of Italian instrumental and opera music in the world

Where:
Chiostro di San Giovanni Battista de’ Genovesi, Via Anicia 12, Roma

When:
16-19 Nov 2023
REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED!


  • EPTA in Italy

    EPTA Italy was founded in 1990 by Marcella Crudeli, one of the most distinguished Italian concert performers and piano teacher. She become president of the EPTA Europe organization in 1995-1996, in 2003-2004 and in 2022-2023.

    This EPTA Italy was born a bit by chance. In fact, in the spring of 1988 the Koncertum DIrecticia of Zagreb offered me a recital and a short seminar in Rovinj, in Istria, on the occasion of the inaugural Congress of EPTA Yugoslavia. I accepted and in October of that year I had the opportunity to meet Prof. Carola Grindea President and founder of EPTA Europe, who immediately showed me a strong sympathy.

    In an interview I had with her, she complained that in Italy no one had taken the initiative to found a national section of the EPTA, as had already happened in many other European and non-European countries. She explained the aims of the organization to me and asked me if I was possibly willing to take care of it, and I was surprised, but flattered by the trust that Grindea showed me, I didn’t dare disappoint her.

    A few days later the official assignment arrived from London, and it is thus that, with the willing collaboration of other colleagues, EPTA Italy was established in Rome on December 2nd, 1989 and the official announcement was made on March 2nd during the awards ceremony and concert of the winners of the International Piano Competition “Roma 1990”, organized by the Cultural Association “Fryderyk Chopin” in collaboration with the Ente dello Spettacolo.

    Marcella Crudeli – President and founder of EPTA Italy

    EPTA Italy Organization Chart

    Marcella Crudeli – President and founder
    Aldo Ciccolini, Mario delli Ponti – Honorary Presidents
    Sergio Calligaris – Vice President


Timeline Gallery

Photo of the hall of the first EPTA Italy congress in Rome in 1990.
1990 – 1st EPTA Italy Congress, Rome
Marcella Crudeli EPTA Europe President speak at the Europe Congress in 1996 in Rome.
1995-1996 Marcella Crudeli
EPTA Europe President
Photo of the speakers table of the second EPTA Italy congress in Rome in 1992.
1992 – 2nd EPTA Italy Congress, Rome
Photo of the speakers at the third EPTA Europe congress in Rome in 1996.
1996 – 18th EPTA Europe Congress, Rome
Photo of the speakers at the third EPTA Italy congress in Turin in 1994.
1994 – 3rd EPTA Italy Congress, Turin
Photo of the speakers at the fifth EPTA Italy congress in Siena in 1996.
1996 – 5th EPTA Italy Congress, Siena
Photo of the speakers table of the fourth EPTA Italy congress in Pescara in 1995.
1995 – 4th EPTA Italy Congress, Pescara
Marcella Crudeli at the fifth EPTA Italy congress in Siena in 1996.
1996 – 5th EPTA Italy Congress, Siena