Pianist Antonio Alessandri performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin and Maurice Ravel, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
Born in Milan in 2006, Antonio Alessandri won First Prize at the Italian Finals of the Steinway Young Talents Competition at the age of eleven, subsequently representing Italy at the International Winners’ Concert held at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg. In 2022, he won three international piano competitions: the Livorno Piano Competition, the Premio Marizza (Trieste) and the Premio Giangrandi-Eggmann (Cagliari), in addition to receiving the Young Talent Award from the Milan Conservatory. In 2023, he was a semi-finalist at the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition, where he was awarded the Fondazione Bracco Special Prize for Best Young Talent.
In 2025, he was a finalist at the prestigious International J. S. Bach Competition Saarbrücken, receiving the Diploma of Merit, one of only four prizes awarded. In the same year, he was also a semi-finalist at the Russian Piano Competition in Sanremo and won the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition in New York, receiving the Evgeny Kissin Grand Prize / Steinway Award (overall winner of the competition), the Dame Myra Hess Recital Award, and the Rosalyn Tureck Prize for Category 8 (Goldberg Variations). In 2026, he won the Rospigliosi International Piano Competition, where he was also awarded the Schumann Special Prize.
He has appeared in recital for numerous Italian concert institutions, including the Società dei Concerti and the Società del Quartetto in Milan, the Brescia and Bergamo International Piano Festival, Mikrokosmi (Ravenna), the Società Filarmonica Ascolana, Associazione Kandinsky (Palermo), Amici della Musica di Trapani, Società dei Concerti di Piacenza, Amici della Musica di Padova, the Teatro Sociale in Como, the Teatro Fraschini in Pavia, Palazzo Brancadoro in Fermo, and the Società dei Concerti di Bergamo. He is also a regular guest artist at Piano City Milano. In 2024, he made his debut at MITO Settembre Musica, and in 2025 he was invited by Professor Andrzej Pikul to perform in Kraków as part of a piano marathon dedicated to Maurice Ravel.
His orchestral appearances are equally noteworthy. After making his concerto debut at the age of 12 at the Teatro dei Teatini in Piacenza with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 11 in A major, K. 413, he performed at the Festival Mozart with I Virtuosi Italiani and, in 2023, appeared with the Orchestra of the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
