Alvise De Piero

Alvise De Piero
Born in Venice in 1974, after obtaining his classical secondary-school diploma at the ‘Marco Foscarini’ Liceo, he graduated with highest honours in Music-oriented Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2004, with a thesis on the harpsichord sonatas of Baldassare Galuppi, known as ‘il Buranello’.

In the meantime, he studied composition (obtaining the intermediate diploma at the ‘Benedetto Marcello’ Conservatory in Venice), piano, organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and fortepiano, further specialising in early keyboard instruments under the guidance of Christopher Stembridge at the Diocesan School of Music ‘Santa Cecilia’ in Brescia. He subsequently attended the PhD programme in Musicology and Musical Heritage at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, completing his doctorate in 2009 with a thesis on Euler’s Tentamen Novae Theoriae Musicae, which he translated into Italian for the first time, providing an historical introduction. Formerly a member of the examination board for Music History at the Department of Music and Performing Arts (now the Department of Visual, Performing and Media Arts) of the University of Bologna, in his capacity as a subject specialist, he has collaborated with the Musical Association ‘Angelo Mariani’ of Ravenna, the Musical Association ‘Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’ of Venice, and the Musical Association ‘Consonanze’ of Casalecchio di Reno.
He has taught courses on the history of the singer-songwriter tradition and on eighteenth-century music history at the Università Popolare di Mestre. In recent years he has devoted particular attention to the publication of Galuppi’s music for Edition HH, together with Fabrizio Ammetto, and to the performance of eighteenth-century harpsichord repertoire.