Alberto Firrincieli is an Italian pianist, harpsichord player, composer and scholar. He has received the Honor Award of Knight of the Star of Italy (Cavaliere della Stella d’Italia) in December 2021. In 2019 he debut at Carnegie Hall playing a Toccata by Frescobaldi, invited as special guest, as jury member of the competition IBLA GRAND PRIZE.

 

He recently published the textbook “A Methodo-logical approach to J. S. Bach Two-part Inventions” for Da Vinci Publishing. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Music Entrepreneurship at the Assumption University of Thailand, where he teaches students major in piano, harpsichord and composition. He established the IKA - International Keyboard Academy in Thailand, and the ITYO – Italian Thai Youth Orchestra. He is the artistic director of Bangkok International Piano Festival and he collaborates with several Embassies in Thailand and abroad and other international institutions in the organization of cultural and artistic events.

In the last 20 years he dedicated himself to the study of music teaching and learning, proposing a healthy long-life approach to music practice, against the very popular routine based on a mere reading-of-the-notes and on mechanical repetitions without any real understanding of the music.

 

He graduated in piano at the age of twenty in the “Vincenzo Bellini” Conservatory, Caltanissetta (Italy). Then he started to dedicate himself to the study of ancient keyboard instruments, studying organ with Enrico Viccardi and graduating in Harpsichord with Maria Pia Jacoboni. Meanwhile he studied Composition with Giorgio Tosi and Electronic Music with Francesco Giomi and Marco Biscarini at the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory in Parma (Italy), where he graduated. He continued his education, graduating in Musicology in the University of Pavia (Italy) with a dissertation about Carlo Antonio Marino – italian baroque composer - and his music. He also studied Harpsichord with Francesco Baroni, and he attended the course “Ars et Labor”, an advanced Piano and Chamber Music Course, with Christa Bützberger and Marina Rossi in Vicenza (Italy). During these studies he attended masterclasses with Enrico Baiano, Bob van Asperen, Michele Barchi and Emilia Fadini.

 

About his other Academic contributions: he edited Carlo Antonio Marino Opera Omnia in 9 volumes, published by Da Vinci Classics and Edizioni Pian&Forte. He recorded 3 CDs and 8 academic articles dedicated to music pedagogy, and he is regularly invited as guest speaker and performer from international institutions to hold recitals, conferences, masterclasses, workshops and to present his scientific contributions in international conferences and symposiums.