Alessandro Marangoni is the winner of several national and international competitions. Marangoni is renowned on the international scene thanks to important concert activity as a soloist at the main European festivals and intense chamber music activity with artists such as Mario Ancillotti, Enrico Dindo, Quirino Principe, Massimo Quarta, Claudia Koll, Francesco Manara, Paola Pitagora, Milena Vukotic and il Nuovo Quartetto Italiano.
Born in 1979, he graduated in piano with top marks with Marco Vincenzi at the Conservatoire of Alessandria. He continued his postgraduate studies with Maria Tipo and Pietro de Maria at the Music School of Fiesole. He holds a doctorate from the University of Pavia with a thesis on the philosophy of music of Fernando Luizzi, as a student of distinction of the Almo Collegio Borromeo.
In December 2007 he made his debut with Daniel Barenboim at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Some of his recent successes include a tour of Mozart concertos alongside the Amadeus Kammerorchester of the Mozarteum of Salzburg and the I Filarmonici Europei Orchestra and his début in Spain alongside the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra and in Bratislava with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra together with Aldo Ceccato.
With Quirino Príncipe he founded the duo Alexander Quirini and Quirino Alessandri, creating monographic programmes on Rossini, Chopin, and other great composers. He has held over one hundred concerts with enormous success in the virtual world of Second Life.
He collaborates with the jazz musician and composer Sandro Cerino, with whom he recorded the album Sconfini. He has also recorded Peccati di vecchiaia, by Rossini (13 CD), Gradus ad Parnassum by Clementi (4 CD), Via Crucis by Liszt, Concertos for piano and orchestra and the works for cello and piano (with Enrico Dindo) by Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Naxos). Alessandro invented the Chromoconcerto, a special project involving music and colour. He won the prestigious Italian Critics Prize “F. Abbiati” and the International Classical Music Award (ICMA), and he is the artistic director of Forte Fortissimo TV and the Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia (Italy).