Giovanni Allevi: Platinium Award Winner Comes To Singapore

5 APR 2016 | Pure composer, pure pianist, pure music.

That aptly describes Giovanni Allevi, who also known as a “classical rebel” and “infant terrible”. Allevi’s delightful distillations of classical music has made him a celebrated social phenomenon, and a new generation of audiences is flocking by the thousands to his concerts, ranging from Carnegie Hall to the Beijing Olympic Games to the 14,000-seat Arena di Verona.

His “contemporary classical music” is direct and endearing, and unlike the complex and dissonant works of avant-garde composers, Allevi’s compositions are deceptively straight, intimate, evocative and appealing, as he effortlessly combines European rhythmic and melodic tradition with sounds of the present.

Allevi has contributed to the new classical scene so much that he’s received certificates of appreciation from the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI, Nobel Prize Mikhail Gorbachev.

Among his numerous recordings and film scores are “Alien”, “Secret Love” and “Love”, as well as “O Generosa!” the theme song of the Italian football team enthusiastically played before all matches of the Italian Serie A matches.