The Piano Festival is a tribute to the innovative genius of Bartolomeo Cristofori: he is considered the inventor of the "fortepiano," the main precursor of the piano The 2023 edition of the Festival will retrace the thread that links Japan to Cristofori's instrument, bringing some of the world's most interesting Japanese pianists to Padua, Rovigo, Conegliano, Abano and Arquà, offering music by Japanese composers from the 20th century to the present and delving into the individual and highly personal paths of each of these musicians. The Festival will have for the first time an artist-in-residence, 24-year-old Mao Fujita