Rodolfo Leone

Described as a “true sound philosopher” (Oberösterreichische Nachrichten), the brilliant Italian-born pianist Rodolfo Leone was the First Prize Winner inner of the 2017 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna. He released his debut album on the Austrian label Gramola in 2018, and “Piano Jewels” featuring works of Muzio Clementi on Naxos in 2022.

Rodolfo’s career has taken him across the world to Europe, Asia, and America, including performances at Los Angeles’s Disney Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, with conductors such as James Conlon and Stéphane Denève.  As a 2018-19 NPR Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, his live recordings were broadcast nationally throughout the United States. Rodolfo made his highly acclaimed Festival Napa Valley debut at Castello di Amorosa in 2018.

A native of Turin, Italy, Rodolfo made his orchestral soloist debut in 2013 performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento. He toured Italy with that orchestra the following year performing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1. 

Rodolfo is currently based in Los Angeles where he is on the faculty of the Colburn Conservatory of Music. He holds both a Master of Music degree and an Artist Diploma from Colburn, and also studied at the Hans Eisler School of Music in Berlin and at the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, Italy.