Alessandra Tiraterra

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Alessandra Tiraterra has drawn the attention of the musical world when she started concertizing at the age of fourteen. She has performed hundreds of recitals for festivals and institutions in Europe and in the US, including Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Society, Kopleff Recital Hall and Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Salle Cortot in Paris, Teatro Ghione and Teatro Marcello in Rome, Festival Musicale delle Nazioni, Sabaudia Musica Festival, Mallery Concert Series, Noble Arts Recital Series, Zimmerli Art Museum The Arts of Music Concert series. Winner of many national and international piano and music competitions and prizes, she studied at the “A. Casella” Conservatory of Music in Italy (Bachelor of Music), the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris “A. Cortot”, France (Brevet d’Execution), Georgia State University (Master of Music), Mozarteum Universität in Salzburg, Austria (Postgraduate Studies), and Temple University, where she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in May 2017. She owes her formation to great pianists and pedagogues, including Sergio Perticaroli, Marcella Crudeli, Joaquin Soriano, Sergei Dorensky, and Charles Abramovic. She has taught in the college and pre-college divisions. Students from her studio are regularly prize winners in piano competitions. She is an active member of College Music Society (CMS), Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), European Piano Teachers Association, and Mid-Atlantic Music Teachers Guild. She often teaches master-classes and is invited as a jury member of piano competitions. She has presented research works for CMS and MTNA, and has published with Dante University of America Press. She is also a composer.