When violinist Giuseppe Gibboni won first prize the Paganini International Violin Competition in 2021, he was the first Italian to do so in 24 years. And he won decisively, also capturing the audience choice prize and special prize for the best interpretations of Niccolò Paganini's Capriccios and Violin Concerto.

Gibboni was born in Italy in 2001, to a family of musicians - his mother Geraldina Letteriello is a pianist, his father Daniele Gibboni is a violinist, and his sisters also play the violin.