ALESSANDRO D’ALESSANDRO
Accordion player (italian organetto), producer, composer
Always interested in the most varied musical forms, Alessandro D’Alessandro is considered “one of the most talented e creative Italian and European accordion players”.
Alessandro D’Alessandro is considered one of the most talented and innovative European accordionists ofrecent years.
Great explorer and experimenter of sounds, he is considered a pioneer in the use of electronics applied to the
accordion. He began to study accordion at the age of 9 in Coreno Ausonio, a small city between Rome and Naples, with great tradition of accordion (Italian diatonic accordion). Always interested in the most varied musical forms, “he is unanimously considered one of the most talented Italian and European accordion players” (cit.), particularly appreciated for his technique, for his versatility and for his sound’s research. He created an original accordion’s percussion system, which, combined with the continuous modulation of sounds, through the use of effects,
loops and various objects ‘applied’ directly to the instrument, he called ‘prepared accordion’, a term generally used in contemporary music.

In 2021 his solo album ‘Canzoni – for prepared accordion & electronics’ released by important Italian label Squilibri Editore, was elected best world music album in Italy and led him to carry out important tours in Italy and Europe. It is a project of exploration of the author’s song, with the transposition of some classics into the language of a “prepared” accordion which, in his hands, seems to take on “the breath of an orchestra”.

He immediately began a concert career in multiple artistic projects, significantly broadening his artistic vision well beyond traditional music.
Alongside his concert career, he is a producer and composer, collaborating with many important artists in the fields of world music, jazz, pop, songwriting and cinema and theatre.
He is the soloist and artistic director of Orchestra Bottoni, a particular big band made up mostly of accordions, combined with the rhythm and tipycal italian voice of Antonella Costanzo, with which has released several records including ‘Orchestra Bottoni Live’, much appreciated by specialized critics in Italy.

In 2017 he won the Targa Tenco for the best album in dialect with “Songs, ballads and hypochondria of ammore” made together with songwriter Canio Loguercio. Premio Tenco is the most important prize in Italy for a songwriter music.
Has collaborated both in studio and live with numerous artists, including Joan Manuel Serrat, Neri Marcorè, Daniele Sepe, Sergio Cammariere, Elio, Antonello Salis, Gianluca Petrella, Petra Magoni & Ferruccio Spinetti (Musica Nuda), Gigliola Cinquetti, Paolo Angeli, Mauro Durante (CGS), Roy Paci, Erdem Simsek, Imed Alibi, Gianni Coscia, Petra Nachtmanova, Marc Perrone, Maria Pia De Vito, Elena Ledda, Flo, Angelo Branduardi, Franco Battiato, Riccardo Tesi, Gabriele Mirabassi, Daniele di Bonaventura, Luigi Cinque, João Silva, Lucilla Galeazzi, Peppe Barra, Eugenio Barba & Odin Teatret, Peppe Voltarelli, Ghiaccioli & Branzini, Fratelli Mancuso, Banda Ikona, Lino Cannavacciuolo, Patrizio Fariselli (AREA), and many others.

He have played in most important festival in Italy and other countries as Berlioz Festival- France, Concerts of the Quirinale-RaiRadio3 (Italian National Radio), FIMU-France, WTM London-England, MeYouZik-Luxembourg, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino-Florence (Italy), Villa Ada Incontra il Mondo-Rome (Italy), Premio Tenco-Sanremo
(Italy), Folkest-Friuli (Italy), Radio 3 Suite (Italian National Radio), Literature Festival-Mantua (Italy), Mare & Miniere-Sardinia, Festival of Creativity- Florence (Italy), Liri Blues (Italy), MuntagninJazz-Abruzzo (Italy), Selinunte Archaeological Park-Sicily, Loano Prize (Italy), Materadio-Matera (Italy), Ethnos, Naples (Italy), Laceno d’Oro Film Festival-Campania (Italy), Napoli TeatroFestival-Royal Palace, Naples (Italy), Notte della Taranta- Puglia, ArtCity-Lazio (Italy), Auditorium ParcoDella Musica-Rome, Italian Cultural Institute Tirana-Albania,
Holstebro Festuge- Denmark, Villes De Musique du Monde-France, Mum Extramadura-Spain, Barnasants- Spain, Percursos da Musica-Portugal, Polja Festival-Serbia, and other gigs in France, Germany, Poland, Chile, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal,…

He wrote music for theatre, cinema and literature meeting.
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