Alessandro De Luca, pianist

Alessandro De Luca, a pupil of Lydia Assenza, Rodolfo Caporali and Alexis Weissenberg, is one of the most representative Italian pianists of his generation.

Ever since his precocious debut, he has performed at the most prestigious venues both in Italy — the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome, Piccola Scala in Milan, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Sagra Musicale Umbra etc. — and abroad, where he has played in the major European musical centres: Paris, London, Munich, Prague, Belgrade, Madrid, Moscow, Bern, St. Petersburg, Bucharest etc.. He has often worked with such celebrated conductors as Lorin Maazel, Georges Prêtre, Yehudi Menuhin, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Peter Maag, Franco Mannino, Leopold Hager,Aldo Ceccato, Roberto Abbado, and with such orchestras as the Pittsburgh Symphony, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Moscow Radio and Television Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra ,RAi Orchestra, S. Cecilia Orchestra,etc.

During one of his tournées in Spain with Russian State Orchestra, he performed in Madrid for the King Juan Carlos and the Queen Sofia, and his interpretation of Rachmaninoff  second Concerto was very successful.

Several times he was guest of “ Martha Argerich Project”,in wich he gave a recital at Lugano Festival in 2011. He has recorded programmes for the RAI (Italian Radio and Television), Vatican Radio, Bavarian Radio, Moscow Radio and Television, Spanish National Radio and the radio and television networks of Lithuanìa, Georgia, Romania and Yugoslavia , and he has made recordings for the Fonit-Cetra, Edipan, Excelsior and Polyart labels.

He also dedicates time to teaching activities, and he holds the chair of piano instruction at the A. Casella Conservatory of L’Aquila. He is Artistical Director, in collaboration with Prof. Pietro Bria, of the concert season “I Concerti del Mercoledì” in the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore in Rome.