Alessio Nanni began performing publicly at fifteen years of age. He began his music studies at the State Conservatory in Rome. He later moved to Florence to study with Lucia Passaglia, one of the last students of Alfred Cortot and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. During this time he completed his academic studies graduating with top honors.
In 2002 Alessio Nanni has won several International competitions and has received scholarship awards that allowed him to participate in the “Mozarteum International Academy” in Salzburg with Sergio Perticaroli and in master classes with renowned pianists Bruno Canino and Franco Scala, for which he received an International diploma for high piano performance.
Nanni’s repertoire extends from Bach to the contemporary and electronic music, with particular interest in composers from romantic period as well as electroacoustic music.
In September, 2003, Mr. Nanni made his solo debut at “Teatro del Sale”, Florence. He was invited to return twenty-one times for solo recitals within fifteen months.
In August 2004, he participated in the “Festival of Arts” in Radicondoli (Siena), as the only pianist to be invited to give a solo performance, dedicated to the composer Sylvano Bussotti. In November of the same year, Nanni made his solo piano debut in Perugia for the opening season of “AGIMUS”, at the International University Grand Hall.
In 2005, his schedule also included solo performances at the “Lyceum International”, at the “Giugni Palace” in Florence, the “Triennial of Contemporary Arts” in Milan, and at the “Medici Riccardi Palace” opening celebration in Florence, Italy.
From 2005, after a long concert series and in a parallel way with the traditional repertoire, Nanni starts to study the relationship between music and the new technology.
In november 2005 he was admitted at the ‘Music and New Technology’ faculty at the State Conservatory of Florence (Italy) in the contemporary composition program.
In the same year, starting from the concept of a total autonomy processing, he founded his own recording/research laboratory: ‘WHITE NOISE FACTORY’.
In this new age he published many electroacoustic compositions and videos investigating the relationship between sound, gesture and visual elements, such: Ellissi Smemorate, Danteum, Points in a space, Hal must practice, Il Volo, Sequenza Zero, Sequenza Uno.
He never abandoned the classical repertoire performance, and during Mozart’s year of celebration in 2006, Alessio Nanni gave five consecutive concerts at the famous ’Palatina Chapel’, in the Pitti Palace in Florence, followed by four concerts for the “IBLA Foundation” in Ragusa (Sicily), with a return visit to the “Baldini Concert Hall” in Rome, the city of his birth.
On spring 2007 he was the first european pianist ever to perform his solo piano recitals in a live web streaming using completely self-built system.
In 2007 his visual work ‘Danteum’ was performed in many concerts and venues and awarded as one of the best of the year in the academic festival ‘Intersezioni’.
In 2008 his electroacoustic work ‘Sequenza Uno’ was selected as one of the best of the year in Composition program and was performed by the ‘New Music Ensemble’ in the festival ‘Multimedia Concert Production 2008′, in collaboration with the New York University.
In february 2009 he completed his contemporary composition study at Conservatory of Florence with top honors.
His most advanced visual/electroacoustic work came out in 2009, ‘TWIN WALLS’, a full research about matching visual and acoustic suggestions into a solid structure.
Few months later the first live web-streaming performance of TWIN WALLS was attended by over than 150.000 people all around the world.
The last step on this researching process is represented by the challenge of merging the classical music repertoire to the new live performance technology in a completely new way.
In 2009/2010 Alessio Nanni worked on a new project on the total interaction between sound and visualization in real time.
He developed a completely self-built interactive system to translate the music signal and energy into visual shapes. Thanks to this system, named SYNAESTHESIA, all the images are generated in real time in reaction to the music, creating a complete music-visual performance. The first visual performance publishing of SYNAESTHESIA is dated october first 2010, on a prelude by Serge Rachmaninoff, and was watched by people from over than 38 countries world wide.
During this long period of extended experimentation he never forgot the classical music. Is a matter fact that he had his official solo recital debut in the United States on september 2009, in New York City, performing an wide repertoire that started by Grieg, coming to Bach, Liszt, Rachmaninof and Chopin.
In 2010 he gave a sold-out monographic concert in the famous ‘Sala del Fiorino’ in Florence, a recital dedicated to Chopin in the year of his birth.
After this great success he was invited to come back again in New York City in 2010, for a solo sold-out recital entirely dedicated do the polish composer.
In 2010 Alessio Nanni published two CDs, a monographic recording on Chopin “ESPRIT CHOPIN” and “HIPER MIND”, an one-hour psycho-electroacoustic compositions.
In 2011 Alessio Nanni published many other videos on Chopin and Liszt as well as contemporary music.
In late 2011 he reached over a million contacts on his video stream channel from over than 150 countries world wide.
Because of this remarkable result, in 2011 Alessio Nanni was nominated an Official Steinway Artist.