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Alessandro Taverna

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Biography of Alessandro Taverna

Alessandro Taverna

"Alessandro Taverna impressed mightily in Chopin’s E minor Piano Concerto. Taverna brought something special to this music. Too many pianists treat it as though they would rather be playing Liszt. Taverna refused to try and take the music by storm, finding instead a gentle melancholy, varying his tone and phrasing and bringing a maturity beyond his years . . . found his way to the music’s heart, especially in the poetry of the moonlit slow movement."

Alessandro Taverna was born at Caorle, near Venice, in 1983. He began his piano studies at the Music Academy of Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro, graduating cum laude at the Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padua in 2001. He continued at the Portogruaro Music School for Advanced Studies where he obtained his Final Diploma. At the International Piano Academy in Imola, he received his Artist’s Diploma in November 2008. In January 2009, Alessandro enrolled at the ‘Santa Cecilia’ National Music Academy in Rome.

 

Alessandro Taverna has won numerous awards in national and international competitions. In April 2009 he was awarded 2nd Prize in the London International Piano Competition having played Chopin Concerto No. 1 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. At the Minnesota International Piano Competition he was awarded 1st Prize which led to a prestigious recital tour including his debut in New York City sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of America and a CD release on the Ten Thousand Lakes label. Also in 2009 Alessandro was awarded 3rd Prize and the Bronze Medal at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition where he played with the Hallé Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder.

 

Alessandro has performed throughout Italy and Europe, including the 69th Maggio Musicale in Florence, a concert in London for the Italian Cultural Institute and for the Semaines Musicales in Crans-Montana (Switzerland). He performed at Berlin’s prestigious Konzerthaus and participated in the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festivals of 2007 and 2008 and the summer season of Centre d’Arts d’Orford (Quebec). In September 2008 he toured the major cities of South Africa.

 

In 2008 the Government Commissariat for Expo Zaragoza and Fazioli Grand Pianos invited him to play in the Italian Pavilion on the new Fazioli M. Liminal model. He was chosen as an artist of the prestigious Keyboard Trust; he performed at London and New York Steinway Halls and opened the season of the Châteauville Foundation in Castleton (Virginia).

 

He has played concertos with the Orchestra Sinfonica Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin and the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza and has recorded for Radio Classica in Italy, for the Slovenian National Radio Television and for Classic FM Radio in South Africa.