Federico Bracalente was born in Fermo, Italy, in 1982. He began studying cello at the age of 5. He trained with Mario Brunello and Giovanni Sollima while furthering his studies in the baroque and classical repertoire with Stefano Veggetti and Cristophe Coin.

He has played in chamber ensembles at numerous festivals – Suoni delle Dolomiti, Ravello Festival, Festival Violoncellistico Alfredo Piatti, Les Recontres de Calenzana, Mantova Chamber Music Festival, Festival Musicale Piceno, Venice Fondation, Mantova Chamber Music Festival, Jazz Italiano per le Terre del Sima, Amici della Musica di Firenze e Ancona, .. – given recitals, and worked with artists such as Wolfram Christ, Francesco Di Rosa, Daniele di Bonaventura, Paolo Fresu, as well as with principals of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Teatro alla Scala. He is a member of influential Italian chamber music ensembles, including the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova and the Orchestra d’Archi Italiana. In 2017 he founded the Cubis Project, a string quartet with whom he opened the Radiohead concert in the Sferisterio arena in Macerata.

Federico Bracalente has always had a strong interest in the rhetorical and poetic aspects of Early music, and a predilection for historically informed performances of Baroque and Classical music on original instruments, with particular interest in transitional authors. Taking the music of the 17th and 18th centuries as his starting point, his research leads him to new sound universes and unusual repertoires, and to important musicians from a variety of backgrounds. He recently published the disc “IN SPIRITUM – Music for Cello and Bandoneon” for Brilliant Classics, with the bandoneonist Daniele di Bonaventura. The disc was featured by several international music magazines and was broadcast by BBC. In 2017 he recorded the six sonatas for cello and b.c. written by P. Pericoli with the harpsichordist Nicola Procaccini, issued by Brilliant Classics.

Federico is the artistic director of “Metamorfosi Festival” and he’s also the creator and developer of “Bach e il Romanico nel Piceno”. He has taught Chamber Music at Conservatorio Canepa of Sassari. His discography includes records published by Egea, Brilliant Classics, Hyperion, Exit Live.

Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan has been astonishing audiences for more than two decades. Acknowledgements began at the age of nine when he won the prestigious Concours musical de France (1st Prize, Paris, 1996). He is embraced for his remarkable prowess and emotional intensity by audiences and colleagues alike.

“Deljavan played Chopin’s B minor Etude with jaw dropping virtuosity and heart-stopping eloquence.” —Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News

A prolific recording artist, Alessandro Deljavan has recorded more than 70 albums from the solo and chamber music repertoire. Of his recording of the Chopin complete Études Pizzicato.lu wrote:

“Technically brilliant and with an exceptional imagination, Alessandro Deljavan brings finesse and spontaneity to Chopin’s Etudes.”

“A concert which only confirms the genuine talent and colossal power of this Italian pianist who we’d like to hear more often in Brussels.” —les chroniques du piano

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 in more than 20 countries including in Austria, Belgium, China, Columbia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Korea, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, 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 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).

Alessandro has performed with orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (Fort Worth, Texas, USA), the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (Milan, 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), the Filarmonica de Stat Sibiu (Sibiu, Romania), among others.

He has appeared at festivals such as the Festival International Piano Classique de Biarritz (Biarritz, France), Festival Chopin à Paris (Paris, France), Piano Intime Series (Montpellier, France), Glafsfjordens musikfestival (Arvika, Sweden), Bologna Festival (Bologna, Italy), Il Festival Piano Master (Gravedona, Italy), Orta Festival (Lago d’Orta, Italy), Gradus International Piano Festival (Aarhus, Denmark), Franz Liszt Festival (Albano Laziale, Italy), Festival Città di Morbegno (Morbegno, Italy), Festival Internazionale di Lapedona (Lapedona, Italy), Autunno Musicale (Como, Italy), the Bogotà International Piano Festival (Bogotà, Colombia) and Tippet Rise (Montana, USA).

His chamber music partners have included the Takács Quartet, the Sine Nomine Quartet and the Brentano Quartet, Alissa Margulis (violin), and Alexander Buzlov (cello). He has toured extensively with the violinist Daniela Cammarano with whom he has recorded several albums for the Aevea, Brilliant Classics and Onclassical labels. Extending his chamber music into the formation of a trio, Alessandro has begun a collaboration with the cellist Amedeo Cicchese who along with Daniela Cammarano form Trio Laetitia with a debut recording on the Artalinna label.

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, for which he has released the Bach Goldberg Variations, and an album of works by Liszt.

Alessandro Deljavan has a discography of over 70 albums with the Stradivarius, Brilliant Classics, Onclassical, Aevea, Naxos, Tactus and Piano Classics labels. A new release coming in 2024 marks his debut recording on period keyboard in an album of J.S. Bach and J.C. Bach. He performs on a forte piano from 1770 with Federico Bracalente playing Violincello Piccolo in the three Gamba Sonatas of J.S. Bach and a solo keyboard sonata of J.C. Bach. The album is being released on Evil Penguin Classics, also a new label for Deljavan.

On Youtube, his recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes has received more than 1,300,000 streams to date.

Alessandro Deljavan graduated from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi (Milano, 2003) and the Istituto Gaetano Braga (Teramo, 2006). From 2005 – 2013 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. In addition, he has taken part 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, 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 Artistic Director of the Opera Master school in Villamagna founded in 2021 and Professor of Piano at the U. Giordano Conservatory of Music, Rodi Garganico, Italy. Alessandro Deljavan joins the faculty at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como giving a master class in May of 2024.