Gianluca Cogoni won the "Tenerife Internacional Music Festival".

Gianluca Cogoni won the Tenerife International Music Festival with the P. Dukas piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Gianluca beat off fierce competition from participants from Germany, Spain, France, the US, England, Panama, Japan, and Switzerland.

The international jury consisting of Alain Giral, France, Ana Maria Ortega, Spain, Chiho Sunamoto, England, Guadalupe Avila, Panama and Ignacio Ruvalcaba for the US, gave the first prize in the "Senior Advance" category to the young Cagliari-born musician.

In joint second place were the Chinese Guan Jian and the American Sagi Schwartzberg; in third place the Swiss Marco Cerbella and the Spaniard Carmen Dguez Glez was fourth. 

Daniela and Antonello Mura from Italy were also members of the international jury but were, of course, excluded from expressing an opinion about the Italian competitor.

At the Festival, the Anglo-Japanese musician Chiho Sunamoto and the president of the Associazione Cdmi Music School Daniela Mura stood in for invited guests.

The excellent organization of the festival was by the Tenerife Musicalex School of Music directed by Juan Carlos Alexander under the aegis of the Ayuntamiento de San Cristobal de la Laguna.