Alessandro Tommasi was born in Bolzano in 1993. After studying at the Conservatorio C. Monteverdi in Bolzano in the class of Andrea Bonatta, he moved to the Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padua, where he graduated in 2015 with top marks in the Piano Triennium with Adriana Silva. From 2014 to 2017 he participated in the project of the Consortium of Conservatories of Veneto “Simultaneo Ensemble,” thanks to which he was able to perform in chamber ensembles in all the conservatories of Veneto. He has attended masterclasses with pianists such as Lilya Zilberstein, Konstantin Bogino, Fausto Di Cesare, Marian Mika, Alberto Nosè and Irina Voro.
In 2013 he founded in Padua together with conductor Federico Marchionda the Orchestra Sperimentale, of which he became President and Artistic Director with the transition to Cultural Association the following year. Since 2012 Alessandro has been organizing at the Sala dei Giganti of the Liviano in Padua the series of concerts and conference-concerts “Essere A Tempo” in collaboration with Studenti Per – UdU Padova and with the support of the University of Padua. Since March 2016 he has been an assistant and translator for the Italian tours of Firebird Fine Arts management. Since May 2016 he has been Press Officer for Asiagofestival, and since June 2016 he has been Artistic Secretary of the Bartolomeo Cristofori Piano Festival, under the Artistic Direction of Carlo Grante. Also in 2016, he is part of the organizing committee behind Mecenatismo 2.0, a major event dedicated to cultural patronage, held in Padua on December 3. Since February 2017 he has been in charge of Promotion for Trame sonore, the prestigious chamber music festival in Mantua, under the Artistic Direction of Carlo Fabiano.
In May 2017 he was selected along with forty other young artistic directors and cultural organizers from around the world for the Atelier for Young Festival Managers Merano 2017 organized by The Festival Academy in November. In the summer of 2014, he attended OperAVerona’s courses on cultural and performing arts event management. He attended courses and seminars on cutlural management at the University of Padua and the Pollini Conservatory of Music with teachers such as Valentina Lo Surdo, Andrea Massimo Grassi, Filippo Juvarra and Andrea Minetto. Since 2017, he began taking single courses at the Fitzcarraldo Foundation in Turin on cultural management. From 2013 to 2017, he was the President of the Student Council and a member of the Academic Council of the Pollini Conservatory, and from 2014 to 2016, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Conference of Council Presidents (CNSI).
Since 2012 he has been writing articles on the Bolzano music scene for the online magazine Franz Magazine. Since 2015 he has been writing reviews, interviews and presentations for the prestigious online magazine Amadeus. For the two magazines, he has interviewed artists such as Janine Jansen, Gianandrea Noseda, Bruno Monsaingeon, Pietro Spagnoli, Garrick Ohlsson, Nicola Alaimo, Alexander Romanovsky, Itamar Golan, Olga Peretyatko, Gil Shaham and many others. He has given lectures and concert introductions for the Monteverdi Conservatory of Bolzano, the University of Padua, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the University Center, the Friends of Music of Padua, and the Goethe Institut. In 2014 he participated in the documentary “Contemplazione – Ferruccio Busoni e la musica del 900” by Claudio Chianura, which was also broadcast on Rai 5. His three-year thesis dedicated to the post-Romantic piano language was selected for publication with the Cleup publishing house. In June 2016, he was a correspondent at the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival “Janine Jansen & Friends” on behalf of Amadeus.
He is currently attending the Biennium Piano Course in Adriana Silva’s class at the Conservatorio Pollini in Padua and studying with Konstantin Bogino and Laura Pietrocini at the Accademia Internazionale di Musica in Rome.