Bolzano Festival Bozen 2026 - Yifan Wu - Piano Recital

As part of the Bolzano Festival Bozen, the Busoni Piano Competition presents a series of concerts bridging the world of competition and the beginnings of an international career. Alongside the prize winners of the 65th edition – Yifan Wu, Sandro Nebieridze and Zhonghua Wei – the series also features young pianists who have triumphed at international competitions affiliated with the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

This evening belongs to Yifan Wu, winner of the 1st Prize at the 65th Busoni Competition 2025. His programme is a carefully considered portrait of the Romantic piano soul, with Robert Schumann as the central thread: from the Kreisleriana and the Arabesque to the Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor and his own arrangement of Im wunderschönen Monat Mai from the Dichterliebe. The programme is rounded out by Mendelssohn's Prelude and Fugue, Sonatas by Scarlatti and Soler, and Arvo Pärt's quiet Für Alina.

Programme:

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Prelude and Fugue, op. 35 No. 1

Robert Schumann – Kreisleriana

Robert Schumann – Arabesque

Domenico Scarlatti – Sonata, K. 9 (arr. Carl Tausig, in E minor)

Antonio Soler – Sonata in F-sharp major, R. 90

Arvo Pärt – Für Alina

Robert Schumann – from Dichterliebe, op. 48: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (arr. Yifan Wu)

Robert Schumann – Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 11

Piano: Yifan Wu