Artists - Yamaha

Eleonora Spina & Michele Benignetti

Eleonora Spina e Michele Benignetti sono due giovani pianisti di talento che vantano una solida formazione sia solistica che di musica da camera. Le loro sensibili interpretazioni sono apprezzate da pubblico e critica.

Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum is one of the world's most popular singer songwriters, having sold over ten million albums. He seamlessly combines jazz, pop and rock to produce a unique blend of compelling music. His explosive live shows are the stuff of legend and have to be seen (and heard) to be believed. These performances, coupled with his outstanding recorded output, have ensured that Jamie has a truly global fan-base.

Antonio Faraò

Antonio Faraò, one of the most interesting jazz pianists of the last generation, has become an official “Yamaha Artist” “I'm not often surprised by the recordings of musicians the way I was overwhelmed the ﬁrst time I heard Antonio Faraò on one of his recent CD's. What amazed me was what I felt inside of me. There is so much warmth, conviction and power to his playing. I was immediately attracted to his harmonic conception, the joy of his rhythms and swing feel and the grace and ingenuity of his melodic improvisational lines. Antonio is not only a ﬁne pianist but a great one.” (Herbie Hancock)

Maria João Pires

One of the legends of the piano world, Pires has appeared all over the globe with all the major orchestras, and performed at all the most important international festivals .

TwoPianists .

"When playing, we find Yamaha Pianos offer the most complete range of innately elegant and lyrical sound, to powerfully bold tone. These instruments allow us to achieve total control essential for any piano duo: from the utmost precision to the most subtle of nuances. What a pleasure to perform on Yamaha Piano’s!”

Cesare Picco

Pianist and composer Cesare Picco has become an official ‘Yamaha Artist’, becoming part of an exclusive group of musicians. Cesare Picco started studying piano when he was four years old and from 1986 he started to perform his own music. He is author to ballets, operas, music for theatre and special projects performed worldwide Cesare has performed at Italy’s most important festivals and worldwide including Delhi Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Abu Dhabi Festival, Singapore Old Parliament, Hanoi Opera House, Al Maidan Centre Kuwait City, Kolkata Tagore Centre, Shillong Auditorium, Guggenheim Venice, Tokyo Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Whitney Museum, and Tokyo Blue Note. He has worked with distinguished artists including Naseer Shamma, Giovanni Hidalgo, Edmar Castaneda, Nino Josele, Vasilis Saleas, Miles Jaye, Giovanni Sollima, Hajime Mizoguchi, Markus Stockhausen, Yukimi Nagano, Taketo Gohara, and many Italian artists. As a composer he has written music for solos, chamber music ensembles and orchestras such as Virtuosi Italiani, Berlin Chamber Soloists, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.

Joe Dorff

Joe Dorff is an American multi Instrumentalist and Singer as well as Composer and Arranger.

Piero Salvatori

Piero Salvatori è un musicista eclettico, nato a Roma nel 1969. Dal 2003 collabora intensamente con il trombettista Paolo Fresu. Partecipa a numerosi concerti e incide dischi con Bollani, Marcotulli, Caine, Pieranunzi. Nel 2013 scrive le musiche per l'assolo di Roberto Bolle nello spettacolo “Bolle and Friends”. Nel 2015 il progetto “Milano Solo” lo vede protagonista sul palco dell'Auditorium di Milano suonando il violoncello e il pianoforte con musiche da lui composte. Ha collaborato a readings e performance teatrali con numerosi attori e personaggi tra i quali Arnoldo Foà, Ugo Pagliai, Don Gallo, Michele Serra. Dal 2000 al 2007 ha suonato stabilmente come solista con Gino Paoli e Ornella Vanoni con la quale collabora attualmente. Del 2016 il suo nuovo CD “Flyaway” per Sony Music.

André Gallo

Siamo davvero felici di accogliere in famiglia un nuovo Yamaha Artist: il giovane pianista italiano André Gallo, un musicista completo, capace di unire la sua spiccata espressività con un’eccezionale tecnica pianistica.

Ilya Rashkovskiy

Ilya Rashkovskiy was the 1st prize winner at the 8th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2012), the Citta di Pinerolo Competition (2012), the International Jaen Competition (2005), and at the Hong Kong International Competition (2005). He is among the top prize winners of the Long-J.Thibaud Competition in Paris (2nd Place), Queen Elisabeth in Brussels (4th Place) and Artur Rubinstein Piano Masters in Tel Aviv (3rd Place).