ALBERTO BALDRIGHI

Born in Monza in 1966, is one of the last generation of pianists trained in Alberto Mozzati’s school. He graduated in 1988 at “G. Nicolini” Conservatory in Piacenza with full marks and laude. He specialized at Hochschule für Musik in Munich from 1993 to 1995 with Ludwig Hoffmann (Maisterklasse).

He has established himself in many national and international competitions winning among others the First Prize “Città di Stresa”, “Città di Osimo”, “Città di Como”, rassegna Kawai in Como, “Gargano ‘89” and the second prize in the competitions “L. Gorgni – Piacenza” and “A. Speranza” in Taranto.

He has held concerts for important italian and international musical Associations (Serate Musicali in Milano, Amici della Musica in Bologna, Società dei Concerti in Como, Teatro Manzoni in Milano, Gioventù musicale in Brescia, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, St. Louis Webster University – United States, Nauplion International Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Società Filarmonica in Trento and Rovereto, Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, etc.).

Since 1993 he also performs regularly in duo with the pianist Anne Colette Ricciardi (Duo Alkan) with whom he recorded 4 Cds for the Record Company Agorà of Milan, (Sonate di Clementi, L’Opera a quatre mains, selections for four hands by Donizetti and pieces of Schubert). In 2005 he also published a CD with Sonata by Liszt and Sonata D960 by Schubert for the AMM.

For several years he has held conferences in the musicological field. With his humanistic background, his last engagements have been also pointed towards the analysis of the relation between figurative, poetic and musical arts and in particular the influence, on this last, of the Dantesque literature. During his performances, through the reciting of numerous canticles of the Divine Comedy, Alberto Baldrighi studied the various moments in which the stilnovistic poetic verse influenced future music. On the other hand, his musical sensitivity makes the component made up of the art of sound always emerge in his reading. His collaborations in the literary field have committed him with the University of Literature and Musicology of Pavia, and he has been several times a guest of the Association Heart of Vimercate, of Società Filodrammatici of Cremona and many other cultural Associations.

Alberto Baldrighi has always dedicated himself with great interest in didactic activities. In 1994 he published the essay “Exercises of piano technique” of Alberto Mozzati for the Ricordi Editors and founded the Academy of Music “Alberto Mozzati” in Mezzago (MB). Many of his students received flattering positions in international competitions and in concert activity.

He is President of the Associazione Amici della Musica of Mezzago and Artistic Director of the Società dei Concerti Filo in Cremona. Ex Director of the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “C. Monteverdi” of Cremona, he taught in the same Institute after having won the competition for the chair of Principal Piano from 2003 to 2013.

Since 2013 he has taught Piano at the “Marenzio” Conservatory in Brescia, of which he has been Director since 2018.