Alfonso Alberti

Alfonso Alberti plays (the piano) and writes (books on music).

His great passion is the music of today, in the belief that it represents a significant opportunity to understand the times in which we live, and ourselves as people who live these times. He enjoyed an intense musical and human partnership with Giorgio Gaslini, who dedicated his last piano works and Piano Concerto to him. He has performed in venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, the LACMA Los Angeles, the Cappella Paolina (Quirinale, Rome).

He has released more than twenty CDs: his last solo cd with orchestra is Giorgio Gaslini – Murales Promenade, also featuring the “Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento” and conductor Yoichi Sugiyama. The Piano Concerto by Goffredo Petrassi (Orchestra della RAI, Arturo Tamayo) gained the 2012 Italian Critics’ Award. He enjoys an intense activity as chamber musician, in duo with pianist Anna D’Errico and with clarinettist Selene Framarin and as member of the Ensemble Prometeo and Ensemble Risognanze.

Alfonso Alberti’s books are published by LIM and L’Epos, and he curates musical editions for Ricordi and Durand. Among his books: La rosa è senza perché. Niccolò Castiglioni, 1966-1996 (LIM, 2012), Vladimir Horowitz (L’Epos, 2008), Le sonate di Claude Debussy (LIM, 2008).

He realized some cycles of Lezioni di musica for RAI Radio3.

In 2017 he published his first book of poems, Due, together with the poet Gianni Bombaci.