Massimo Mercelli

Massimo Mercelli studied with André Jaunet and Maxence Larrieu. At the age of 19, he became First Flute of Venice’s Teatro La Fenice and went on to win the Premio Francesco Cilea, the Concorso Internazionale Giornate Musicali and the Concorso Internazionale di Stresa.
He started an intense concert activity, performing as a soloist in some of the world most prestigious concert halls (the Carnegie Hall of New York, the Moscow Conservatory, Oslo’s Conserthuset, Monaco’s Herkulessaal and Gasteig, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, RAI Auditoriums in Turin and Naples, the Victoria Hall of Geneva and the headquarters of the United Nations in New York) and important festivals (Ljubljana, Berlin Festival, Santander, Saint Petersburg, the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw). In 2006, he played the first performance of Façades by Philip Glass with the composer at the piano and performed at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Salzburg Mozarteum.
Massimo Mercelli is Artistic Director and founder of the Emilia Romagna Festival, and has been a member of the directive committee of the European Festival Association since 2001. Furthermore, he has been a juror at important international competitions such as the Jean-Pierre Rampal Competition of Paris, the Geneva Competition, the Concert Artist Guild of New York, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in the USA.