Alessandro Deljavan
ITALY
June 28th
PROGRAM
Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonata n. 1 in do minore op. 32
I. Allegro
II. Andante tranquillo sostenuto
III. Allegro moderato
Claude Debussy: Sonata in re minore
I. Prologue. Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
II. Sérénade. Modérément animé
III. Finale. Animé, léger et nerveux
Fryderyk Chopin: Sonata in sol minore op. 65
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo. Allegro con brio
III. Largo
III. Largo
IV. Finale. Allegro
Born of an Italian mother and Persian father, Alessandro Deljavan began learning to play piano before the age of two and gave his first performances at age three. He has since performed around the world including in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.
“Deljavan’s performance was revelatory in every respect. Everyone in the hall knew that they were hearing something special—something wonderful—from the very first notes. At the end, the spontaneous eruption of cheers was so different from the perfunctory ovation that any decent performance is awarded, that being a part of the thrilled crowd was a unique experience in itself.” — Gregory Sullivan Isaacs, Theater Jones.
“Alessandro Deljavan performed in the most stunningly beautiful and expressive way that no one who was there will forget—it was simply world-class!” — Sverker Magnusson, Arvika News.
Alessandro Deljavan has won top prizes in competitions including the Concours musical de France (1st Prize, Paris, 1996), Hummel Competition (2nd Prize, Bratislava, 2005), Gina Bachauer Young Artist Competition (5th Prize, 2005), Cliburn Competition (John Giordano Discretionary Award, 2009), Isangyun Competition (2nd Prize, Tongyeong, South Korea, 2010), and Cliburn Competition (Raymond E. Buck Discretionary Award, 2013).
He has performed with orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (Fort Worth, Texas, USA), the Boston Philharmonic (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (Milan, Italy), Obiettivo Orchestra (Turin, Italy), Orchestra Sinfonica Leopolis (Atri, Italy), Orchestra Haydn di
Bolzano e Trento (tour in Italy & Slovakia), Israel Camerata Orchestra (Tel Aviv, Israel), Wu Han Philharmonic Orchestra (Wu Han, China), and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra (Vilnius, Lithuania), among others.
He has appeared at festivals including 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 Bogotà International Piano Festival, and Tippet Rise.
His chamber-music partners have included the Takács Quartet, the Sine Nomine Quartet, the Brentano Quartet, Alissa Margulis (violin), and Alexander Buzlov (cello). He has toured extensively with violinist Daniela Cammarano, recording several albums for the Aevea, Brilliant Classics, and Onclassical labels.
Alessandro has appeared in films such as Franz Liszt: The Pilgrimage Years (RAI – Italian TV), Virtuosity (Cliburn / PBS), and numerous live broadcasts on European radio. The live webcasts from the Cliburn competitions (2009 & 2013) were seen by over a million viewers in 155 countries.
In 2021 Alessandro inaugurated his own imprint, the AERAS Music Group, releasing Bach’s Goldberg Variations and an album of works by Liszt including the complete Mephisto Waltzes and the Sonata in B Minor.
He has a discography of over 80 albums on the Aeras, Aevea, Ars, Artalinna, Brilliant Classics, Challenge Classics, Evil Penguin Classics, Naxos, Onclassical, Pavane, Piano Classics, Stradivarius, Suonare, and Tactus labels.
A recent Spotify Artist Report listed: 957,000 fans 4,000,000+ streams 166,000 hours 65 countries.
On YouTube, his recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes has received well over 1,500,000 streams.
Alessandro Deljavan graduated from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” (Milan, 2003) and the Istituto Gaetano Braga (Teramo, 2006). From 2005 to 2013 he was among the select young artists at the International Piano Academy Lake Como under William Grant Naboré. He alsopursued studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello, and the Ottorino Respighi Foundation in Venice.
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 Professor of Piano at the Conservatorio di Musica “Luigi Cherubini” di Firenze and regularly gives masterclasses at the International Piano Academy Lake Como and APM School in Saluzzo.
