About the Artist

Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan has been astonishing audiences for more than two decades. He is embraced for his remarkable prowess and emotional intensity by audiences and colleagues alike. A prolific recording artist, Deljavan has more nearly 70 albums from the solo and chamber music repertoire. Born of an Italian mother and Persian father, he began learning to play piano before age two and gave his first performances at age three. Deljavan has won top prizes in competitions including Concours musical de France, Hummel Competition, Gina Bachauer Young Artist Competition, Cliburn Competition, and Isangyun Competition, performing with orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica Leopolis, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Israel Camerata Orchestra, Wu Han Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared at such festivals as the Festival International Piano Classique de Biarritz, Festival Chopin à Paris, Piano Intime Series, Glafsfjordens musikfestival, Bologna Festival, Il Festival Piano Master, Orta Festival, Gradus International Piano Festival, Franz Liszt Festival, Festival Città di Morbegno, Festival Internazionale di Lapedona, Autunno Musicale, the Bogotá International Piano Festival, and Tippet Rise. His teachers include Valentina Chiola, Piotr Lachert, Ricardo Risaliti, Enrico Belli, Eugenio Bagnoli, Lazar Berman, William Grant Naboré, Dimitri Bashkirov, Laurent Boullet, Fou Ts’ong, Dominique Merlet, John Perry, Menahem Pressler, Claude Frank, Richard Goode, and Andreas Staier. He is currently artistic director of the Opera Master school in Villamagna founded in 2021 and professor of piano at the U. Giordano Conservatory of Music, Rodi Garganico, Italy.