The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to present a concert by Italian guitarist Yuri Santangelo, winner of the International Paganini Guitar Festival. The event will take place on Tuesday, 14 April at 6:30 PM at the Recital Hall of TU Dublin.
The concert is made possible thanks to the collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute, the Paganini Guitar Festival, the Società dei Concerti di Parma, and TU Dublin.
The talented competition winner, Yuri Santangelo, will perform a refined program of classical guitar repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the 20th century. Works by:
- Miguel Llobet (1878–1938)
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968)
- Manuel Palau Boix (1893–1967)
- J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
- Joaquín Turina (1882–1949)
Free admission with reservation on Eventbrite, limited seats available. Reserve your seat here.
Yuri Santangelo was born in 2000 in Florence. He graduated from the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, studying under maestros Alfonso Borghese, Duccio Bianchi, Luigi Attademo, and Lorenzo Micheli. In 2025, he won five first prizes at national and international competitions, including “Fernando Sor,” “Città di Padova,” “Omaggio a Niccolò Paganini,” “Giulio Rospigliosi,” and “Giovanni Ansaldi”. He also placed tenth at the prestigious 2nd European Bach Guitar Award, sixth at the Tokyo Competition, and second at the Paganini Guitar Festival, chamber music section, together with soprano Dafne Colombo, with whom he collaborates under the name Iter Vocis Duo. In October 2025, the 30th International Guitar Conference in Milan awarded him the “Golden Guitar for Young Talent”. He has collaborated on numerous projects with the association “Punte di Spillo” against gender-based violence and, since 2024, has been a member of the cultural association “Musica a Traverso,” working on events aimed at raising awareness and promoting local culture. He has performed in venues such as Palazzo Montecitorio, the Palazzo di Giustizia in Florence, the Hall of LAC in Lugano, and the Giardino della Minerva in Rome. The latter concert took place during the award ceremony of the “Indicibili (in)canti” competition, organized by the MIUR and SIAE, where he won first prize for composition. He has composed and produced music for the documentaries From Florence to Mont Blanc, La Restanza, and Endless Peaks (upcoming), directed by Francesco Tomè. Currently, Yuri has completed with honors a Master of Arts in Music Performance under Lorenzo Micheli at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana and is finishing a second Master in Music Pedagogy, also in Lugano. Since September 2024, he has been a guitar teacher at the “Filippo Rosini & Co Music School” in Cadenazzo (CH).