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 IBLA performances!  

ALESSIO QUARESIMA ESCOBAR

Pianist-Baritone

Artistic Director of the Association “Poker d’Assi” of Rome, Alessio Quaresima Escobar starts his singing education very early entering the “Pueri Cantores” Choir in the Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina conducted by M° Mons. Domenico Bartolucci. Later on, he starts studying piano with M° Carla Giudici at the Conservatoire of Music “S. Cecilia” of Rome where he graduates, in 1996, with top grades “Cum Laude”. Attending different master classes he gets to know the pianist M° Rodolfo Caporali with whom he continues to enrich his musical knowledge. Winner of the musical contest he obtained the professional title of “Maestro Collaboratore Sostituto” in Spoleto in the 2002 course. In 2009 he gets the Diploma in Opera singing as a Baritone at the “G. Briccialdi” Institute of Music of Terni under the guidance of Contralto Mirella Caponetti. He has improved with Francesca Patanè, Marco Chingari, Ruggero Raimondi, Enza Ferrari, Rolando Nicolosi, Marco Boemi, Mary Setrakian. He played as piano soloist, and in other chambre groups, and sang in some of the most famous theatre and concert halls of the world like the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorium della Conciliazione, the Opera Theatre, the Valle Theatre in Rome, the Comunale Theatre in Bologna, for important internationals music accademie like S. Cecilia. He sang with famous opera singers as Susanna Rigacci, Mirella Caponetti, Giorgio Casciarri, Maurizio Scarfeo, Maurizio Comencini, Paola Romanò, Ettore Nova and others. He took perfectioning classes at the Academia Musicae Pro Mundo Uno, at the Accademia Musicale Ottorino Respighi, at the Ars Academy and at the Scicli International Music Academy. 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 pianist in Italy and abroad. He has been awarded in National and International competition. Invited several times to perform in the National broadcasting television RAI, on the satellite television Sat 2000 and Radio Vaticana. His pianistic repertoire goes from the 18th to the 20th century music with a particolar interest in the works of Liszt and Rachmaninov, while his baritone repertoire includes works of Donizetti, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Giordano etc. french and Lieder repertoire. He has been a jury member in “Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev” International Competition of Radford USA and in “Ibla Grand Prize” World Music Competiton together with M° Abbado, M° Sokolv, M° Sandomirsky and many others.