Alessia Toffanin

Alessia Toffanin holds degrees in piano, chamber music and vocal chamber music, from the Venice, Padua and Rovigo conservatories. She was awarded prizes and mentions as soloist and in piano duo in many competitions, among them the “Città di Albenga”, “Città di Bardolino”, Città di Stresa” “K. Czerny” and “Roma ‘90”. Her passion and interest for twentieth-century and avantgarde music led Toffanin to collaborate with the Padua-based Interensemble group, giving concerts in many prestigious festivals, such as “Les Musiques” (Marseille), “Ensems” (Valencia), as well as at the Auditorium National of Madrid, the Dublin National Concert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the M.I.T., Harvard University (Boston) and at New York University.
At the Université Evry (Paris), under the guidance of Jean-Pierre Armengaud, she deepened her knowledge of the musical repertoire of Paris at the turn of the century.
A dancer herself, she worked as a pianist with many étoiles: Luciana Savignano, Toni Candeloro, Marco Pierin, Rosario Suarez.
As a member of the Interensemble, she recorded with Cramps, Rivoalto, and Taukay labels. In duo with violinist Alessandro Fagiuoli, for the CD label Blue Serge, she recorded works by Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Milhaud, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Amendola. She plays with the Venice La Fenice orchestra, works as music assistant at La Biennale di Venezia for the “Biennale Musica College”. She is also teacher of piano accompaniment at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice.