Alfredo Conte studied piano at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatoire of Venice and at the Santa Cecilia Conservatoire of Rome; at the latter he obtained both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with top marks, laude and honourable mention under the guidance of Maestri Maura Pansini and Gennaro Pesce. He also graduated with first class honours from the Faculty of Music at King’s College London and attended the Advanced Performance Studies programme at the Royal Academy of Music.
Thanks to the support of the “Sir Antonio Pappano” scholarship, he is currently pursuing a performance-based PhD under the supervision of Dr. Amy Blier-Carruthers and Alexander Soares at the Guildhall School of Music of London, while continuing his piano studies with Prof. Ronan O’Hora. His research project has also been awarded the “Innovation and Knowledge” prize promoted by the association Il Circolo.
He has received prizes in several piano competitions (Dinu Lipatti; Osimo; Riccione;Albenga) and was awarded the Giovanni Abbadessa Prize among the conservatories
of Lazio as the “best young pianist of the region.” He has attended masterclasses with distinguished musicians including Antonio Pappano, Vanessa Latarche, Marcella Crudeli, Leon McCawley, Angela Hewitt,
Konstantin Bogino, Pierluigi Camicia, and Imogen Cooper.He has performed in numerous solo recitals in Italy, Romania, Monte Carlo, and the United Kingdom. Notable recent venues include La Casa delle Culture in Velletri, the Giacomo Manzù Museum in Ardea, Scuderie Aldobrandini in Frascati, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Club in Rome, the Théâtre des Muses in Monte Carlo, Casa Menotti in Spoleto, William Goodenough College in London, Teatro Tor Bella Monaca, St Pancras Church in London, the Italian Embassies in Bucharest and London, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Rome (Liszt Hall), the National Liberal Club in London, the Ateneo Veneto in Venice; Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice.
During the Bolzano Festival, in collaboration with the Mahler Academy, he took part in the world premiere performance of Georg F. Haas’s composition 11,000 Saiten. He also recorded the European premiere of the étude Calligraphy by the contemporary composer Toshio Hosokawa. Alfredo has also curated and organised the project Young Music Italy in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in London, where he performed in a series of concerts. He regularly performs for the Rotary Club, of which he is an active member, in concerts dedicated to charitable and humanitarian causes.
