Alessandro Taverna was born in 1983 and has performed in major international musical institutions, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Musikverein in Vienna, Gasteig in Munich, Lincoln Center in New York, Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro del Maggio in Florence, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Sala Verdi in Milan, Auditorium Toscanini in Turin, Auditorio della Radiotelevisione Svizzera in Lugano, Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Konzerthaus in Berlin, DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen.
Alessandro Taverna
Taverna has played under the direction of Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Fabio Luisi, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Michele Mariotti, Daniele Rustioni, Robert Trevino, Thierry Fischer, Alpesh Chauhan, Michele Gamba, Carlo Boccadoro, Hartmut Haenchen, Asher Fisch, Yutaka Sado; he has also performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Munchner Philharmoniker, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra the Minnesota Orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Bucharest Philharmonic, the RTE’ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra Filarmonica Slovena.
Taverna is very active in chamber music, collaborating with artists such as Francesca Dego, Martin Owen, Mariangela Vacatello, Enrico Bronzi, Edgar Moreau, Alena Baeva, Maxim Rysanov, Fumiaki Miura, Clara-Jumi Kang. He has established himself in prestigious international piano competitions such as the Piano-e-Competition in the USA, the piano competitions in Leeds, London, Hamamatsu, Busoni in Bolzano, the Premio Venezia, the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize.
In 2012 he was awarded the ‘Premio Presidente della Repubblica’ at the Quirinale by Giorgio Napolitano, for artistic merits and his international career.
He trained with Laura Candiago Ferrari at the Fondazione Musicale Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro and graduated with top marks, distinction and honourable mention at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua.
After specialising with Piero Rattalino at the Scuola di Perfezionamento di Portogruaro, Alessandro completed his training at the Accademia Pianistica di Imola with Franco Scala, Leonid Margarius, Boris Petrushansky and Louis Lortie.
He obtained his diploma cum laude at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Sergio Perticaroli and completed his studies at the Lake Como Piano Academy with William Naboré, Fou Ts’ong, Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson and Stanislav Ioudenitch and at the Hochschule fur Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover with Arie Vardi.
Taverna is often called upon to hold masterclasses for Italian and foreign institutions and invited to serve on juries for international piano competitions.
He collaborates as a populariser for Rai Radio 1 FVG in musical programmes. He has recorded albums for the Sony Classical, Somm, Musicom, RaiTrade and Tzadik labels.
In 2023, together with Francesca Dego and Martin Owen, he released an album with the Brahms/Ligeti/Mozart trios for violin, horn and piano on the Chandos Records label.
Taverna holds a professorship at the Conservatorio Pollini in Padua. He also teaches at the Imola Piano Academy ‘Incontri con il Maestro’ and at the Santa Cecilia Music Foundation’s Postgraduate School in Portogruaro.
He is artistic director of the Portogruaro International Music Festival and artistic consultant for music and dance at the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone.