Alessandro Deljavan Profile

Born of an Italian mother and a Persian father, Alessandro Deljavan began learning to play piano before age two and gave his first performances at three. He has since performed around the world in more than 20 countries, to great acclaim.

A mong Deljavan’s many awards and honors are the Concours musical de France (first prize, Paris, 1996), Hummel Competition (second prize, Bratislava, 2005), Gina Bachauer Young Artist Competition (fifth prize, 2005), Cliburn Competition (John Giordano Discretionary Award, 2009; Raymond E. Buck Discretionary Award, 2013), and Isangyun Competition (second prize, Tongyeong, South Korea, 2010).

He has performed internationally with many leading orchestras, including the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Orches - tra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica Leopolis, Orchestra

Haydn di Bolzano e Trento (tour in Italy and Slovakia), Israel Camerata Orchestra, Wu Han Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.

He has appeared at festivals such as the Festival International Piano Classique de Biarritz, Festival Chopin à Paris, Piano Intime Series, Glafsfjordens musikfestival, Bologna Festival, 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 include the Takács Quartet, the Sine Nomine Quartet, and the Brentano Quartet, as well as violinist Alissa Margulis and cellist Alexander Buzlov. Deljavan has toured extensively with the violinist Daniela Cammarano, with whom he has recorded several albums for the Aevea, Brilliant Classics, and OnClassical labels.

Deljavan 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 and 2013) were seen by more than a million viewers in 155 countries.

In 2021 Deljavan inaugurated his own imprint, the AERAS Music Group, for which he has released the Bach Goldberg Variations and an album of works by Liszt. Forthcoming are Beethoven’s complete sonatas for violin and piano, an album of Mozart sonatas, and of Schubert.

Deljavan’s discography encompasses more than 60 albums with the Stradivarius, Brilliant Classics, Onclassical, Aevea, Naxos, Tactus, Artalinna, and Piano Classics labels. Among his releases for 2023 are albums of Scarlatti sonatas, Scriabin mazurkas, Schumann Kinderszenen, trios by Debussy and Tchaikovsky, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 for four hands, and Haydn sonatas. Please follow him on Facebook for news about projects and plans for 2024.

On YouTube his recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes has received more than 1,000,000 streams to date.

Alessandro Deljavan graduated from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica

Giuseppe Verdi, in Milan, and the Istituto Gaetano Braga, in Teramo.

From 2005–13 he was among the select young artists attending the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, Italy, under the tutelage of the Academy’s artistic director, William Grant Naboré. He has also participated in courses at the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Festival dell Nazioni at Città di Castello, and the Ottorino Respighi Foundation on St. George Island, Venice, Italy.

His teachers include Valentina Chiola, Piotr Lachert, Riccardo 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 Crecchio and professor of piano at the University of Giordano Conservatory of Music, in Rodi Garganico, Italy.

Alessandro Deljavan, piano

Recorded in the Olivier Music Barn in December 2017, released by Aeras Music Group, and produced with Kathy Geisler.

1. Franz Liszt: Valse-Impromptu, S. 213

2. Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514

3. Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 2, S. 515

4. Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 3, S. 216

5. Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 4, S. 216

6. Franz Liszt: Sonata in B Minor, S. 178

Technical Specifications

Piano: Véra

SS#: 598992 D

Piano technician: Mike Toia

Performance Sound Recording, Sound Mixing & Mastering: Monte Nickles

Production Assistant: Devanney Haruta

Recorded in AURO-3D® for immersive playback in 32-bit 384kHz DXD format

Microphones:

Main array: Left, Right, Center: DPA 4006

Surround L & R: DPA 4041

Height Front L & R DPA 4006 w/40mm APE

Height Rear L & R: Schoeps MK2H w/30mm APE

Microphone preamps: Grace Design M802

A/D Conversion: Merging Technology HAPI and HORUS with Premium converter cards

DAW: Merging Technologies Pyramix

Alessandro Deljavan portrait photos page 2 and 12, by Jean-Baptiste Millot

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