The holder of a bachelor’s degree from the Santa Cecilia Conservatoire in Rome, Ettore Pagano is currently studying at the Universität der Künste Berlin under Jens Peter Maintz. Awarded the Premio Abbiati by the Italian Music Critics Association in 2025, that same year he won the ICMA Classeek Award and the ‘Una vita nella Musica - Giovani’ prize from Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In 2024 he won Second Prize, the audience award and the prize for best sonata at the Enescu Competition. In 2022 he was awarded First Prize, prize for best sonata and two special prizes at the Khachaturian Competition. Performing from an early age, he has appeared with the Düsseldorfer Philharmoniker, Graz Philharmonic and Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, among others, and has performed under such conductors as Kazuki Yamada and Hubert Soudant.

Instrument: Wiltrud Fauler (2024)

Teachers

2024 - : J.P.Maintz
2021 - 2023 : D.Geringas
2018 - 2024 : A.Meneses
2018 - 2019 : E.Dindo

Degrees

2024 - : Master of music, UDK Berlin
2019 - 2022 : Bachelor of music, Conservatorio di S.Cecilia (Rome)
2018 - 2023 : Artist Diploma, Stauffer Center for Strings - Cremona

Concerts

2025 : Tonhalle Düsseldorf, ICMA gala, Düsseldorfer symphoniker, V.Aleksenook Conductor
2025 : Teatro La Fenice, Fondazione Lirica del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, K.Yamada conductor
2025 : Sala S.Cecilia - Rome, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia, T.Guggeis, S.Shoji
2025 : Linz Brucknerhaus, Stars von Morgen, Recital with piano
2025 : Auditorium Toscanini, Orchestra sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra sinfonica RAI, A.Orozco-Estrada conductor
2024 : Tour Italy/Germany, Stuttgarter philarmoniker, Stuttgarter philarmoniker, Dvorak cello concerto

Competitions

2024 : Second Prize, Prize for best sonata, Audience Award, G.Enescu international Competition
2022 : First prize, Prize for best sonata, two other special prizes, XVIII A.Khachaturian international Competition
2020 : First prize, J.Brahms competition
2019 : First prize, Filarmonica della Scala “giovani musicisti” competition
2017 : Second prize (first not awarded), New York International Artists Association