OCTOBER 25, 2025
Kritikultura
The concert approach of Ruben Xhaferi, just twenty years old, to such a demanding cycle reveals, in addition to extraordinary musicality, a particular intellectual aptitude: the ability to memorize the entire material, the construction of an interpretative complexity with a vision of fragments or individual contents....
JUNE 2, 2025
Libertà
The 19-year-old Italo-Albanian pianist Ruben Xhaferi has won the prestigious “Silvio Bengalli” Prize, organized by the Valtidone Musica Foundation. He was crowned yesterday at the Auditorium of the Fondazione di Piacenza e Vigevano during the Gala of the Valtidone International Competitions, a preview event...
MARCH 10, 2024
Il Resto del Carlino
The Circolo della Musica hosts this afternoon the concert of its 40th season (6 pm, road Valle Verde 33, in Rastignano): an appointment not to be missed, due to the presence of Ruben Xhaferi (to be pronounced "Jah-FEH-ree"), eighteen-year-old pianist who is reaping important awards, not least the Prize of the Arts...
JUNE 15, 2022
Il Resto del Carlino
Ruben Xhaferi, 16 years old - surname of Albanian origin,
but a precocious all-Italian talent - plays tonight at 9pm in the Archiginnasio Courtyard, guest of the "Pianofortissimo 2022" festival.
Xhaferi, who lives in Padua but studies at the "G.B. Martini" Conservatory presents a beautiful program...
APRIL 6, 2019
Corriere di Bologna
A very young pianist will perform tonight for the Circolo della Musica’s concert season. Ruben Xhaferi is 13 years old and in his third year of middle school. Of Albanian origin, he was born near Venice...
APRIL 6, 2019
La Repubblica
At 13, Ruben Xhaferi’s idols aren’t soccer stars—they’re Maurizio, Ivo, and Murray, rhyming with the golden “three P’s” of the late 20th century: Pollini, Pogorelich, and Perahia...
APRIL 1, 2017
La Repubblica
Three competitions, three first prizes. In his brief life as a pianist, eleven-year-old Ruben Xhaferi has yet to encounter obstacles...
JULY 28, 2016
Gli Amici della Musica
FERRARA - Sometimes it happens, while frequenting the smaller musical festivals scheduled for tourist purposes in the cities of art, that you come across real phenomena of the limelight: it happened in Ferrara where we followed at the loggia of the Renaissance Palazzina in Marfisa d'Este on Thursday 28th july 2016, the recital of the little pianist Ruben Xhaferi...