RUBEN XHAFERI was born in Dolo (VE) in 2005 and began studying piano at the age of 5.

Winner of numerous national and international awards, including the Silvio Bengalli Award organized by the Val Tidone Foundation, the Roma Piano Competition, the Crescendo Award of Florence, the Radovljica Piano Competition, he was awarded First Prize at the XVII National Arts Prize in 2024, a distinguished recognition from the MIUR (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 played in prestigious theaters and concert halls, including the Pauline Chapel of the Quirinale Palace in Rome, which was broadcast live on RAI Radio3, the Teatro Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna, the Teatro Sociale E. Balzan in Badia Polesine, the Salone dei Cinquecento of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, the Teatro Comunale of Adria, the Sala del Guariento of the Accademia Galileiana in Padua, the Teatro Palladium in Rome, the Belloni Theater in Monza Brianza, the Archiginnasio Courtyard in Bologna, the Mozart Hall of the Bologna Philharmonic Academy, the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini in Siena.