Alessandro Taverna
Alessandro Taverna is an Italian pianist. He trained at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with Franco Scala, Leonid Margarius and Boris Petrushansky; he later specialized with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at the International [Piano Academy Lake Como] working with Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson, Fou Ts'ong, and Stanislav Ioudenitch. He has been a "Lieven Scholar" at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana pursuing his master's degree in Advanced Performance Studies with William Grant Naboré.
Competition record
- 2003 – A. Scriabin, Grosseto: 1st prize
- 2009 – London International Piano Competition, London: 2nd prize
- 2009 – Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Minneapolis-Saint Paul: 1st prize
- 2009 – Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, Leeds: 3rd prize
- 2010 – A. Benedetti Michelangeli Prize, Eppan
- 2011 – Busoni International Piano Competition, Bolzano]: 5th prize