RUBEN XHAFERI was born in Dolo (VE) in 2005 and began studying the piano at the age of five.
Winner of numerous national and international awards, including the Lamberto Brunelli Award, the Silvio Bengalli Award organised by the Val Tidone Foundation, the Roma Piano Competition, the Crescendo Award of Florence, 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, which was held at the Conservatory of Cagliari.
He has already performed in numerous concerts in Italy, Germany, Spain, and Slovenia.
He has played in prestigious theatres 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 Olimpico in Vicenza, 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 Teatro Belloni in Monza Brianza, the Archiginnasio Courtyard in Bologna, the Mozart Hall of the Bologna Philharmonic Academy and the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini in Siena.
APRIl 20, 2026
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The final of the XV National Piano Competition - Lamberto Brunelli Prize took place at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, which inaugurated the XXXV edition of the Musical Weeks at the Teatro Olimpico. Pianist Ruben Xhaferi won, receiving both first prize and the audience award, at the end of an evening that saw the three finalists compete on Beethoven's repertoire together with the Regional Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta...
JULY 20, 2025 | ROMA Cappella Paolina del Palazzo del Quirinale
F. Chopin, Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 – 24 Preludes, Op. 28 – 3 Études from Op. 10: No. 6 in E-flat minor: Andante; No. 2 in A minor: Allegro; No. 1 in C major: Allegro
I concerti del Quirinale | Rai Radio 3
JANAURY 23, 2023 | BOLOGNA Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
Mozart Piano Concerto No.20 in D Minor, K.466
Concerto di Inaugurazione dell'Anno Accademico 2022/2023
Orchestra Conservatorio G. B. Martini | Alberto Caprioli direttore