Alessandro Taverna (Italy) ← Back to list
Alessandro Taverna regularly performs in major international musical institutions, including La Scala Theater in Milan, San Carlo Theater in Naples, La Fenice Theater in Venice, Musikverein in Vienna, Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Gasteig in Munich, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, Lincoln Center in New York, Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Metropolitan Theater in Tokyo.
He has worked with worldwide famous conductors, such as Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Fabio Luisi, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding, Michele Mariotti, Thierry Fischer, Daniele Rustioni, Carlo Boccadoro, Joshua Weilerstein, Pier Carlo Orizio, Sergey Smbatyan, and he has collaborated with prestigious orchestras including the Filarmonica della Scala, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Bucharest Philharmonic, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, RTE National Symphony of Ireland, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra.
He gained his international recognition in prestigious international piano competitions such as the Piano-e-Competition in the United States, Leeds, London, Hamamatsu, Busoni Prize of Bolzano. In 2012 he received the "President of the Republic Award" from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, for artistic merits and for his international career.
He graduated at the age of seventeen at the Pollini Conservatory in Padua, studying with Laura Candiago Ferrari at the S. Cecilia Music Foundation in Portogruaro; he continued his education with Franco Scala, Leonid Margarius and Louis Lortie at the Imola International Piano Academy. He also attended the Accademia S. Cecilia in Rome with Sergio Perticaroli, the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover with Arie Vardi and the Lake Como Piano Academy with William Grant Naboré, Fou Ts'ong and Dmitri Bashkirov.
He is often invited as jury member in important international piano competitions and to held masterclasses and seminaries for prestigious institutions (Bowdoin Festival in Brunswick - USA, Music in Pyeongchang Festival in Korea, Cork School of Music in Ireland, etc...). He collaborates with RAI Italian National Radio and Television; he has recorded albums for the Sony, Somm, Musicom, RaiTrade, Tzadik labels.
Alessandro Taverna is Professor of Piano at Imola International Piano Academy, at Padua Conservatory of Music and the International School for Advanced Music Studies in Portogruaro.
Since April 2021 he has been artistic director of the Portogruaro International Music Festival.