ALESSANDRO MARANGONI

Born in Italy in 1979, Alessandro Marangoni studied piano with Marco Vincenzi at the Università di Pavia, where he was awarded the diploma with honours (summa cum laude). He continued his studies at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole with Maria Tipo and Pietro De Maria. Besides his musical studies he was awarded an honours degree in philosophy at the Università di Pavia with a thesis on Fernando Liuzziʼs philosophy of music. He was also a merit student of the Almo Collegio Borromeo, Pavia, one of the oldest and most important European university colleges. The recipient of several national and international awards, including the prestigious Amici di Milano International Prize for Music, Alessandro Marangoni has appeared in many important musical events in Europe, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, including Rome (Accademia di Santa Cecilia), Florence (Accademia della Crusca), Venice (Teatro La Fenice), Ischia (the Walton Foundation), Cittadella in Assisi, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Engadiner Internationale Kammermusik-Festspiele, Sagra Musicale Umbra, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, St Johnʼs College, Cambridge, and the Universidad Católica de Chile. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with some of the most important Italian musical personalities and ensembles, including Mario Ancillotti, Vittorio Ceccanti, Daria Masiero, Stefano Parrino, Quirino Principe, Carlo Zardo and the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano. He has played to great public and critical acclaim in Spain with the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra and in Bratislava with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Aldo Ceccato. He has also given more than a hundred concerts for the Second Life virtual platform. He has recently started an artistic collaboration with the Italian actress Valentina Cortese. He plays the piano for the Trio Albatros, with which he has won acclaim all over the world. In 2007 Alessandro Marangoni made a recording for La Bottega Discantica of piano works by the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata. For the 40th anniversary of the latterʼs death he played in a recital at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with Daniel Barenboim. He is recording the complete piano works by Rossini (Péchés de vieillesse) and Clementiʼs Gradus ad Parnassum for Naxos. He teaches piano and chamber music in several masterclasses in Europe and South America.

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Alessandro Marangoni discusses his Naxos CD of Clementi’s Gradus ad Parnassum

Suonare magazine interview (Italian)

FamigliaCristiana.it – Rossini e i suoi “peccati di vecchia”

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