Alessio Quaresima, pianist, ITALY

IBLA Foundation Winner Pianist Alessio Quearesima has just returned from the IBLA Grand Prize Winners Tour. It included his New York Carnegie Weill Hall performance in addition to performing for New York University, Radford University and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Mr. Quaresima was received by critical acclaim. Please visit the PRESS link in www.ibla.org to access the reviews of his brilliant performances!  

Mr. Quearesima started playing the piano very young entering the class of   M°Carla Giudici at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome . He continued studying with her and he graduated in 1996 with top grades. He played as soloist and in   other chamber groups, in some of the most famous concert halls of the world like the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo. He took perfectioning classes at the Academia  Musicae Pro Mundo Uno, at the Academia  Musicale   Ottorino  Respighi, at the Ars Academy   and   at the   Scicli    International   Music   Academy. He studied with the M°Rodolfo Caporali  with whom  he  enriched his artistic training. Winner of the musical contest, he obtained the professional title of Maestro collaboratore sostituto in Spoleto in the 2002 course, studying with maestri such as Ruggero Raimondi, Enza Ferrari, Rolando Nicolosi, Michelangelo Zurletti and Marco Boemi. He's taken part many times in the contemporary music festival Nuova  Consonanza as a guest. He also took part in many perfectioning classes and master-classes held by eminent   pianists in Italy and abroad. He was prized in national and international piano competitions. He's been performing many times in the national broadcasting television Rai, on the satellite television Sat 2000, in local broadcasting televisions in Italy as well as for Radio Vaticana. His repertory goes from the 18th to 20th century music with a particular interest in  the compositions of Liszt and Rachmaninoff, composers particularly congenial with his romantic temperament. He teaches piano preparing a lot of students for the examinations at the conservatories. The Professor Cleoto Silvani wrote about him: "...The young guy reveals a wonderful technique inserted into happy cantabile breathings. This is why he appears like an old dated artist, while he is a young genial pianist".