Biography
Education
He got a first-class diploma both in
piano at the "F. Morlacchi"'s
conservatoire in
Perugia and in
composition at the "G. Verdi" academy of music in
Milan.
He got a degree
cum laude
in
Philosophy with the thesis entitled "Il vuoto nella Fisica contemporanea" (The Void in Contemporary Physics) and he attended the
Accademia Internazionale di Alto Perfezionamento
in
Arezzo, under the leadership of maestro
Carlo Alberto Neri.
In
1991 he did military service in the
Banda Nazionale
of the
Italian Army. The master of the
band noticed his piano talent and so he decided to put the piano soloist in his inventory. He played the
Rhapsody in blue
by
George Gershwin and the
Warsaw Concerto
by
Richard Addinsell in his capacity as piano soloist of the Banda, during a tour in a lot of italian theatres.
At the end of the military service, Allevi started presenting in concert a repertory formed exclusively by his own compositions for
pianoforte solo and at the same time attended the courses of "Bio-music and
music therapy" by professor Mario Corradini, in which he enhanced his awareness of music's great power of setting minds free and of evoking memories, images and emotions.
In
1996 he set to music the tragedy
The Trojan Women
by
Euripides, represented on the occasion of the International Festival of the Ancient Drama in
Siracusa, winning the special prize for the best scene musics.
In
1997 he won the international selections for young concertists at the
San Filippo Theatre
in
Turin.
Encountering Saturnino and Jovanotti
Thanks to
Saturnino, Giovanni Allevi matures the idea of moving to Milan and to gather into one CD his own piano production; this work is picked up by Lorenzo Cherubini, stage name
Jovanotti, who in
1997, under his label
Soleluna
and together with
Universal Italia
, decides to publish Allevi's first album, by the title of
13 Dita
(13 Fingers) and produced by Saturnino.
As a result of Allevi's encounter with Saturnino and Jovanotti, he faces the large audiences of modern
rock concerts: Allevi opens, with his piano alone, Jovanotti's concerts during the tour
L'Albero
, executing a few tracks from
13 Dita
.
In
1998, again with Saturnino as the producer, Allevi creates the
soundtrack for the short film
Venceremos
, awarded at the
Sundance Film Festival, a
film festival that takes place annually in the state of
Utah, in the
United States.
Books
La Musica in Testa - His first book that has been published on
March 5,
2008. It's a diary which collects his thoughts, his experiences and the ancdotes until his success.
Discography
Studio's albums/CD
- 13 Dita
(1997)
- Composizioni
(2003)
- No concept
(2005)
- Joy
(2006)
- Evolution
(June 13, 2008)
Live
Concerts/DVD
Musical editions
- No Concept
, piano score, Carisch, Milano 2006, ISBN 978-88-50709-59-5
- Joy
, piano score, Carisch, Milano 2007, ISBN 978-88-50711-43-7
- Pianoforte a quattro mani
, four-hands piano score, Carisch, Milano 2008, ISBN 978-88-50712-76-2 (it contains the transcription of the following pieces for the four-hands piano: Back to life, Come sei veramente, Vento d'Europa, Jazzmatic)