Alessandra Ammara

Alessandra Ammara has drawn the attention of the musical world after being awarded in some of the most important piano competitions, such as "G.

B. Viotti" in Vercelli, Italy, "Ester Honens”, in Calgary, Canada, and "Van Cliburn" in Fort Worth, USA.
She has played all over Europe (Grosse Philharmonie in Berlin, Musikverein in Vienna, Festspielhaus in Salzburg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), and in Israel, South Corea (Sejong Arts Center in Seoul), China, USA, Canada, South Africa, both as a soloist and with orchestra (Berliner Symphoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai, Calgary Philharmonic, Cape Town Philharmonic), collaborating with great conductors like Bernard Labadie, Jan Willem De Vriendt, and Fabio Luisi.
Also very attracted to the chamber music repertoire, she has extensively played concerts with great musicians (The Sine Nomine Quartet, Cremona Quartet, Anton Kuerti, Jing Zhao). She regularly performs with her husband, pianist Roberto Prosseda, with whom she recorded Mendelssohn’s complete works for piano duet and the two concertos for two pianos and orchestra.
Her repertoire includes music from Domenico Scarlatti to contemporary piano music: she performs and has recorded music by Chopin, Schumann, Debussy and Ravel, but has also premiered piano rarities by Roffredo Caetani, Giacinto Scelsi, Mel Bonis, Cécile Chaminade, Nikolaj Mjaskowsky, Nikolaj Roslavets, and contemporary composers, like Luca Lombardi and Carla Rebora.
She has studied at the Conservatory “L. Cherubini” in Florence, and then with Maria Tipo, Paul Badura-Skoda, Leon Fleisher, Alexander Lonquich, William Naboré and Fou Ts'Ong.
She is professor of piano at the Conservatory of Music “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence.