RUBEN XHAFERI, Italian-Albanian pianist born in 2005, began studying piano at the age of five. 

He has won more than twenty national and international prizes, including the Lamberto Brunelli Prize, where he also received the Audience Award, and the Silvio Bengalli Prize organised by the Val Tidone Foundation; in 2024 he was awarded First Prize at the XVII National Arts Prize, a distinguished recognition from the Ministry of Education and Merit for the best students of the Conservatories of Italy, held at the Conservatory of Cagliari. 

He has already performed in numerous concerts in Italy, Germany, Spain, and Slovenia. 

He has performed in prestigious venues including the Pauline Chapel of the Quirinale Palace in Rome (broadcast live on RAI Radio3), the Salone dei Cinquecento at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Palazzo Chigi-Saracini in Siena, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna, the Mozart Hall of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, the Archiginnasio Courtyard in Bologna, the Teatro Palladium in Rome, the Sala del Guariento of the Accademia Galileiana in Padua, the Teatro Sociale E. Balzan in Badia Polesine, the Teatro Comunale in Adria, and the Belloni Theatre in Monza.