Alessandro mazzamuto rachmaninov biography

The 26-year-old Sicilian pianist has won more than 60 national and international competitions in piano and chamber music.
Italian Pianist | Teacher | Recording Artist.
He was born in Catania in 1988 and graduated from the Music Institute Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, under the guidance of Epifanio Comis, with.

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Alessandro Mazzamuto

Italian pianist Alessandro Mazzamuto was born in the ancient port city of Catania, Sicily in the foothills of Mt. Etna. Music has been in his family for three generations, and his cellist parents nurtured the promising talents of all four sons for playing the violin and cello. At the age of nine, Alessandro, having started on the violin, asked if he could learn to play the piano. He began lessons with Italian pianist and conductor Epifanio Comis, and practiced at his teacher’s house. At age ten he played Mozart concerto K. 414 in a masterclass with Andras Schiff prior to his first performance with an orchestra. At that time he had enrolled in the city’s esteemed music conservatory, the Music Institute Vincenzo Bellini. At age sixteen, Alessandro was invited to West Chester University in the USA to play Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 conducted by Ovidiu Marinescu, also a cellist, educator and composer. The borough of West Chester is nestled in a verdant valley in Pennsylvania, and the college town by the same name is peaceful and picturesque. Th

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Sicilian pianist coming to Naples teaches, performs with passion

Alessandro Mazzamuto is scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. May 11 at Wang Opera Center in Naples. COURTESY PHOTO

It was clear even before he was born that Alessandro Mazzamuto would have a musical life, and a musical life in strings at that.

How could it be otherwise?

His family tree fairly blossoms with musicians — his grandmother and great-aunt operatic singers, both parents, cellists. His mother played cello in the orchestra at Catania, Sicily, while pregnant with him and his older brother, Lorenzo.

He and his three brothers were destined for stringed instruments.

“My parents thought that, as a violinist, it would be easier for me to find a job with an orchestra,” he said.

So, at seven, he began violin lessons with his mother.

How, then, does Grand Piano Series have Alessandro Mazzamuto performing Liszt and Rachmaninoff piano sonatas which he describes as “big, difficult beasts of pieces”?

Alessandro Mazzamuto, who performs at 7:30 p.m. May 11 at Wang Opera Center, 2408 Linwood Avenue, Napl