Alessandro Taverna, Piano

Biography

Alessandro
Taverna
was born in 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 e-Competition,
he was awarded 1st Prize, which will lead to a prestigious recital tour
including his debut recital 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.

Alessandro
has performed throughout Italy and Europe, including in
the 69th Maggio Musicale in Florence, a concert in
London for the
Italian Cultural Institute, and for the Semaines Musicales in Crans-Montana (Switzerland).  In February 2007 he performed at the
prestigious Berlin Konzerthaus. He participated in the Ottawa International
Chamber Music Festivals in 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 2009-2010 season of The Châteauville Foundation
in Castleton (Virginia).

Alessandro
Taverna has recorded for Radio Classica in Italy, for the
Slovenian National RadioTelevision and for ClassicFm Radio in South Africa.