The Italian pianist Simone Alessandro Tavoni makes a welcome return to the 1901 Arts Club with another solo recital of works by recognised masters, as well as newer works including one of his own compositions.
Simone Alessandro Tavoni has given recitals internationally, including in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Hungary, France, Spain, Malta, Estonia, Greece and across Italy. He was awarded a place on the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Pathway scheme during the 2015/2016 academic year, allowing him the opportunity to rehearse and perform as an orchestral pianist with the Orchestra, and some of these performances were broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
In 2019 Simone was selected as a Park Lane Group Artist, as a Keyboard Charitable Trust Artist and received the Luciano and Giancarla Berti full-ride scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he studied with Fabio Bidini.
He has featured as a soloist with the East London Symphony Orchestra, the Kensington Chamber Orchestra, the Ashod Symphony Orchestra, the Alion Baltic Symphony Orchestra and the Luigi Cherubini Symphony Orchestra. Performance venues have included the Liszt House (Budapest, Hungary), Salon Christophori (Berlin, Germany), the Florence Conservatory Concert Hall (Florence, Italy), the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall, the Steinway Hall, St. Mary's Perivale, 1901 Arts Club, the Brunel University, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Regent Hall, St. James’ Piccadilly (London, UK), Winchester Cathedral (UK), Petit Palau in Barcelona (Spain), the Tallinn Philharmonia and Glehn Castle (Tallinn, Estonia), Aarhus Musikhuset and the Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen (Denmark). He is also a regular guest artist at the En Blanc Et Noir Piano Festival in Lagrasse (France) and the Aegean International Art Festival in Heraklion (Crete).
He graduated from the Giacomo Puccini Conservatoire in La Spezia, Liguria (Italy) when he was 18, where he studied the piano under Marco Podestà. He then moved to Florence to study at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatoire, continuing piano studies with Giuseppe Fricelli, and studying composition with Rosario Mirigliano.
The winner of numerous national competitions in Italy, he also took part in an exchange programme in Budapest on a full scholarship at the Franz Liszt Academy, studying with Professors Kesckes Balazs and Rita Wagner.
In 2014, he moved to London to study on the Master of Performance programme at the Royal College of Music with Professor Andrew Ball. After winning a second exchange bursary in Autumn 2015, he pursued his studies for one term at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany with Dr. Peter Nagy. He has also taken part in masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Fabio Bidini, Aldo Ciccolini, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonio Pompa Baldi and Malcolm Bilson.
During the 2018/2019 academic year he obtained an Advanced Diploma course at Trinity Laban Conservatoire with professors Deniz Gelenbe and Peter Tuite, as an Alfred Kitchin and Trinity College London Scholar.
Simone has been generously supported by, and performed numerous times for, the Talent Unlimited organisation. He is also a trustee of the Kensington and Chelsea Music Society and Artistic Director of the Paisajes Piano Festival in Spain.
He is currently performing, closely assisted and supported by Prince Dr Donatus Von Hohenzollern.