In a multidisciplinary concert, the talented young dancer Alistair Wroe presents an evening of music and dance with the pianist Raffaello Moretti, for what will be a thrilling and moving night of performance.
Originally from Worcestershire, Alistair began his dance training at the Centre for Advanced Training in Birmingham, and Worcestershire Youth Dance Company. He went on to complete a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. During his degree he worked with various choreographers including Gary Lambert, Struan Leslie and Marie Gabrielle-Rotie. Alistair has also worked closely with Alison Curtis-Jones and Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop on recreations of the Rudolf Laban works Nacht and Green Clowns. He went on to train further at the London Contemporary Dance School, where he completed his Master of Arts as well an international tour as a member of EDGE.
As a performer, Alistair has had the opportunity to work with Philippe Blanchard, Alexander Whitley, DAZED Magazine for Craig Green, Tom Rosenthal, Tom Roden and Joseph Toonga amongst others, and has toured to Switzerland, Malaysia, Norway and Italy.
Having graduated cum laude at the age of 18, Raffaello Moretti studied in Paris with Aldo Ciccolini and Marie-Françoise Bucquet, then in Barcelona with Alicia de Larrocha where he completed his Master’s Degree from the Academia Marshall and lastly in London with Tatiana Sarkissova, acquiring a Master of Arts from the Royal Academy of Music. He also studied at the International Piano Academy Lake Como – directed by Martha Argerich – with William Grant Naboré, Leon Fleisher, Claude Franck, Menahem Pressler, Charles Rosen, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts’ong and Andreas Staier. During this time, he performed in several masterclasses: at the Mozarteum in Salzburg for Andrzej Jasinky, at the Foundation Yamaha in Paris for Elisso Virsaladze and at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, for Bruno Leonardo Gelber. Finally, he worked intensively with Galina Eguiazarova in Madrid, who remains his main teacher and mentor.
Supported by the Fondazione CIMA in Tuscany, he won the First Prize at the Moncalieri and Mondovì International Competitions.
He has broad international performance experience in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, England, USA, Mexico and Argentina.
He also graduated in Philosophy with top marks at the Università Statale of Milan with a thesis on Nietzsche’s thought and then followed the lessons of Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Recently he completed a PhD on Alfred Cortot at King’s College London with Daniel Leech-Wilkinson.