Artists - Yamaha

Milica Skarik

Milica Skarik is a pianist, that is performing mostly as chamber musician. She performs regularly in her country R. of Macedonia, but also has performed in France, Germany, USA, Bulgaria, Italy, Serbia etc. She recently recorded a CD with the hautboist Vladimir Lazarevski with works from Slavic composers.

James Newton Howard

Check the credits of your favorite box-office smash from the past two decades, and there's a good chance you'll see James Newton Howard listed as composer. Howard has contributed music to more than 100 films, from romantic comedies to action thrillers to sci-fi blockbusters, earning Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe nominations or awards along the way. He's also contributed to the small screen with compositions like the Emmy-nominated main theme for the long-running series ER.

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.

Francesco Tristano

Francesco Tristano is just as comfortable on the techno club scene as he is on the classical concert platform and audiences across the world are enthralled and amazed in equal measure when they hear him performing.

Hiromi Uehara

A musical phenomenon, Hiromi gathered attention when performed Chick Corea invited her to perform with him when just 17. She already had a recording contract while still in college, and is now an award winning star known around the world.

Clara Haberkamp

Pianist, composer, songwriter

Roberto Giordano

Nato nel 1981, Roberto Giordano si diploma nel 1999 all’Ecole Normale de Musique « A. Cortot » di Parigi con l’unanimità e le felicitazioni della giuria e al Conservatorio « G.Rossini» di Pesaro con il massimo dei voti, la lode e la menzione d’onore. In seguito è allievo di Leonid Margarius e Piero Rattalino all’ Accademia Pianistica di Imola, dove consegue il diploma con il titolo onorifico di MASTER, venendo apprezzato anche da Vladimir Ashkenazy. Nel 2003, il suo premio al “Concours Musical International Reine Elisabeth de Belgique” a Bruxelles, lo rivela all’attenzione della critica internazionale e delle maggiori istituzioni concertistiche del mondo. “Pianista eccellente, di grande classe ed eleganza”, “Virtuoso senza pari”, “Musicista raffinato e sensuale”, “Poeta del pianoforte”, sono alcune delle espressioni con le quali Roberto Giordano è unanimemente descritto dalla critica.

Andrejs Osokins

Latvian classical concert pianist Andrejs Osokins is a laureate of the world’s most prominent piano competitions, including Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, the Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris, the Leeds International Piano Competition and the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels, as well as a laureate of the 5th Inter-national German Piano Award presented by International Piano Forum in Frankfurt.

Michele Campanella

Il geniale concertista italiano Michele Campanella, costantemente acclamato dalla critica e dal pubblico a livello internazionale, fa il suo ingresso tra le fila degli Yamaha Artist, ovvero tra coloro che hanno scelto di esibirsi sui prestigiosi pianoforti della serie CF