Simone El Oufir Pierini

Simone El Oufir Pierini
Born in Rome in 1996, Simone El Oufir Pierini began studying music at the age of eight.

Aged eighteen, he graduated in piano at S. Cecilia Conservatory of Music, Rome, with highest honors (lode e menzione), and consequently taking part in masterclasses and post-graduate courses with Elisso Virsaladze, Benedetto Lupo, Drafi Kalman, Boris Berman, Nikolai Demidenko, Pavel Gililov. He afterwards grew interest in historically informed piano practice, studying at courses and masterclasses led by Alexei Lubimov, Andreas Staier, Tobias Koch, Gianmaria Bonino, Costantino Mastroprimiano, Stefano Fiuzzi. Subsequently, his interest about historical keyboards in general grew further, and he began studying harpsichord and basso continuo with teachers as Andrea Coen and Giovanni Togni. He is taking the master degree in harpsichord at L’Aquila Conservatory. As pianist he has won a number of prizes in national and international piano competitions, and he performed as a soloist and as a chamber musician for venues as the Auditorium “Parco della Musica” in Rome (in a concert at the second piano with Lang Lang), Teatro Eliseo (Rome), the 34th Festival Internazionale di Portogruaro, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti (IUC, Rome), the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, among the others. He also performed as a soloist with the orchestra. He also has performed contemporary music, recording pieces specially composed for fortepiano and being the dedicatee of pieces of the Italian composer Riccardo Perugini (b. 1996). He performs regularly on the fortepiano both as a soloist and a chamber musician, especially in repertoires concerning Viennese classicism, late eighteenth century music and early romantic French music. He obtained a master degree cum laude  in Musicology in 2022 at Sapienza University of Rome, writing and discussing a dissertation about the transition from harpsichord to fortepiano in keyboard literature.