abstract:The International Piano Academy Lake Como is a piano academy. Seven pianists, chosen annually from a worldwide field of over 1000 applicants including many international prizewinners, have the opportunity of studying with a faculty whose core membership past and present includes such stellar artists as Dmitri Bashkirov, Boris Berman, Malcolm Bilson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Leon Fleisher, Fou Ts'ong, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Graham Johnson, Stephen Kovacevich, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Charles Rosen, Andreas Staier, as well as the late Alicia de Larrocha, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Rosalyn Tureck, and Alexis Weissenberg.