Artist · Conductor
Alfonso Todisco
Biography
Alfonso Todisco (b. 1994) is a pianist, conductor, and event manager. He graduated with honors in Piano at the G.
Martucci Conservatory of Salerno under the guidance of Tiziana Silvestri in June 2017. He began his studies in Composition and Conducting with Nicola H. Samale in 2015 and graduated from the G. Martucci Conservatory in Salerno with an honorable mention in 2020. He also attended masterclasses with Bruno Aprea and Daniele Agiman.
He has won several chamber music competitions both as a pianist and conductor. Active in the world of research with a project focused on the origins of the "Sonata Form", he attended conferences in Italy and abroad: "XV GATM Conference" in Rimini (October 2018-2019); "Porto International Symposium on the Analysis and Theory of music", Porto (March 2019), "FIMTE XIV Symposium Diego Fernandez", Spain (June 2019),
In the academic year 2019/2020 he was the winner of the research scholarship at the G. Martucci Conservatory in Salerno with a project titled "Verso alla forma-sonata classica". He is a regular contributor to Maria Elisa Tozzi's musicological magazine "Il Mondo della Musica" and other Italian and foreign newspapers.
Alfonso Todisco is the artistic and musical director of the Artemus Ensemble of Pompeii (Neaples), which boasts numerous important concerts in the area, four concert seasons, and two albums produced by Satyr MB Production: "Gli Echi dell'Eterna Bellezza", with music by F. Cuccurullo, A. Onorato, P. Odierna and N. H. Samale, inspired to the ancient Pompeii (December 2019); "Il Prodigio", with three string symphonies by F. Mendelssohn (October 2020).
Alfonso Todisco conducted the KLK Symphony Orchestra of Lviv (Ukraine), G, Martucci Orchestra (SA), Vidin Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Joven Orquestra de Leòn (Spain), Musici di Parma Orchestra, Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti, Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Roma, Orchestra da Camere Abruzzese, Ruse Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), always with public and critical acclaim.
He teaches Piano Practice at the N. Sala Conservatory in Benevento.