Pianist Rikako Tsujimoto won the Brunelli prize with a concert at the Olimpico

It is the first initiative of Sonig Thackerian’s “Musical Weeks”.

The Lamberto Brunelli national piano competition was won by the Japanese Rikako Tsujimoto, 26 years old. The victory was decreed by the young pianist, who competed against two other 23-year-old finalists, Matteo Di Bella from Udine and Paolo Ehrenheim from Desio, in
Brianza, was the jury chaired by Andrea Lucchesini and composed of Mariangela Vacatello, Claudio Ambrosini, Stefano Lorenzetti and Sonig Tchakerian artistic director of Musical Weeks.

Rikako Tsujimoto has won a scholarship of 1,500 euros awarded
provision by the Brunelli family and a concert tour in prestigious musical institutions
in Italy: the Musical Weeks at the Theatre
Olympic 2025 as part of the Youth Project; Asolo Music in the field
of the Music in museums exhibition at the Santa Caterina cloister in Treviso; Friends
of the Music of Florence as part of the Fortissimissimo project; Friends of
Music of Padua as part of the Domenica in Musica alla Sala review
of the Giants of Padua and for the Pinerolo Academy of Music Foundation.