BIOGRAPHY
Italian conductor Alessandro Fabrizi led prominent orchestras throughout Europe which earned him high praise by critics and audiences.
One of most important English specialized magazines, “Seen and Heard International” has
reviewed his performances with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London defining as “excellent” his conducting of Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony at Cadogan Hall and “masterful” the fourth symphony of Tchaikovsky a few years earlier.
Winner of severals International Competitions, he was awarded “Conductor of the Year” in the Annual Gran Prix 2024 managed by the “European Classical Music Awards”. In 2024 he
obtained also the “Diamond Prize” in Orchestra Conducting at the “Best Classical Musicians
Awards” 2024, “Diamond Prize” at the “World Classical Music Award”, “Diamond Prize” at the “World Artistry Music Award”, “Diamond Prize” at the “Georges Bizet International Music Competition, “Diamond Prize” at the “Claude Debussy International Music Competition, “Diamond Prize” and “Special Award” at the “European Spring Music Competition” and he was appointed “Artist of the Month” (may 2024) by the “European Classical Music Awards”. As composer of orchestral Film and TV music, he won the First Prize and “Creativity Special Prize”at the “UK International Music Competition”, “Platinum Prize and “Special Creativity Award” at the “World Grand Prix International Music Contest” (2024 – season 1), “Platinum Prize and “Special Award” at the “European Classical Music Awards” 2024. In 2023 he won the First Prize at the International Competition “World Grand Prix International Music Contest” (fourth season) in the category Composers and he received the appointment of professor for the faculty of Musicology at the university L.U.I.R.S. of Rome for the 2023/24 academic year. In the same year he composed and published his third discographic orchestral album for Cinema and TV, distributed by Sony Music Publishing and Alpha Records. The album was awarded with “Diamond Prize” at the London Royale Music Competition 2023.
In 2022 he carried out an important research work aimed to rediscovery and enhancement
prominents Italian Authors of the past, collecting from libraries from all over the world the
unpublished manuscripts of ten Symphonies-Ouvertures of one of the most skilled and
renowed Composers of the Neapolitan Music School: Domenico Bonifacio Pasquale Anfossi, a musician who was much loved by the young Mozart, realizing a world premiere recording with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra of Prague. The CD was produced and distributed by “Concerto Classics” record Italian label and it has received commendable praises from the European trade press as well as the Nomination for ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) 2024.
Since 2019 he collaborates with the Contemporary Musical ensemble, an heterogeneous
chamber music ensemble, with which he develops innovative cultural-musical projects.
During the pandemic he composed and published two orchestral sountracks albums for films and Tv, edited and distributed by Musicmedia musical editions in Milan. During the same period he wrote and published a scientific manual book that highlights characteristics and comparisons between Tonal and Modal harmony, in its modern meaning. He is also author of the books “Wagner between Ideology and Theater”, published by L.U.de.S. University Press of Lugano, Switzerland and “Fondamenti di Austica negli Strumenti Musicali nella Voce - Dall’Origine del Suono alla Psicoacustica”.
In 2018 he started a recording productions of unpublished works from the baroque to the
twentieth century, along with soundtracks of movies and a special dvd to the memory of the
victims of the Holocaust.
In 2017 he has been awarded with an Honorary Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting and
Musicology by the International University of Scientific Research (L.U.I.R.S.) in Rome.
In 2016 and 2017 he collaborated with the Pontificie Musical Chapel – Sistina in Rome,
coming into direct contact with the most ancient and authentic traditions of the Renaissance
Sacred Vocal Music.
In 2015, Maestro Fabrizi was on tour with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to
appear at the Dubai World Trade Center under the Patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Al
Maktoum Bin Hamdan, the Crown Prince of Dubai.
In 2014, Maestro Fabrizi led the Berliner Symphoniker Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie
Hall conducting Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. He made headlines leading the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra London at Cadogan Hall in November and again in June 2014 for the inauguration of the “Music and Neuroscience” project: it aimed to scientifically delve into the complex influences of music on the human brain (the project involved Universities and Researchers coming from all over the world). Other conducting highlights of 2014 included his appearance with the San Carlo theatre Orchestra in Naples and with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.
In 2013 he was guest conductor of the Teatre of Como for the Opera Domani Project 2013,
performing Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Hollander” at various Italian theatres including Arcimboldi of Milan, Regio of Turin, and Comunale of Bologna. In 2013, his performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus received considerable artistic acclaim and fifteen minutes standing ovation.
In 2012 Maestro Fabrizi took the podium to conduct Brahms’ First Symphony with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
In since 2011, his performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall in March 2011 was enthusiastically received and
gained recognition in reviews from the leading UK magazine “Seen and Heard International,” which defined it a “shining and masterful performance”. In 2011 Maestro Fabrizi was invited to conduct a Gala-Concert in commemoration of Maria Callas at the National Opera Theatre in Bucharest and he conducted Tosca at the Opera Festival at the Arts Center Opera House of Seoul.
In 2010 he inaugurated the season of the “Italian Simphonic Orchestra Monteverdi” with
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Flavio Vespasiano Theatre in Rieti, which earned him high praise from both the public and critics.
Maestro Fabrizi has been engaged in projects of cultural innovation. He has worked in
cooperation with researchers at UCLA (University California of Los Angeles) and he is a
founding member of MEDIARS, an experimental center which is involved in new technologies for culture and performances.
He conducted throughout the world, including Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia,
Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, South Korea, Mexico and Japan. He
conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Symphoniker Orchestra, the Czech
National Symphony Orchestra, San Carlo Theatre’s Orchestra of Naples, the Orchestra
Sinfonica Siciliana, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Chamber Philharmonic and the State Symphonic Academy Orchestra of San
Petersburg, the New Europe Symphony Orchestra, the Youth American Orchestra, the Turingie Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Marche and Umbria, the Black Sea Philharmonic Orchestra, Theatre Sociale’s orchestra of Como, the State Slovack Orchestra, the Italian Symphony Orchestra Monteverdi.
He began his conducting career at the side of Maestro Jeffrey Tate with whom he studied
many of the classical, romantic and late-romantic symphonic and operas scores, mainly in
Italian and German. He collaborated with Mo. Tate also for productions at the San Carlo Real
Theatre in Naples, including Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”, Bartok’s “The Barbablu Castle”, and Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les Sortilèges”. Then, he served as assistant of Maestro Donato Renzetti for operas including Tosca at the Verdi Theatre in Trieste and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Massimo Theatre in Palermo.
In 2007, his rising success was solidified at a concert with the “New Europe Symphony
Orchestra” at the Bulgaria Hall of Sofia. This marked the beginning of many collaborations with East Europe Nationals Theatres: a three-year training that allowed him to debut a huge opera repertoire, mainly Italian. During this period he conducted Le Nozze di Figaro, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci e Carmen, Elisir d’Amore, Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Lucia of Lammermoor, Madame Butterfly and Pagliacci.
Together with his concert activities, he also took on a teaching role in some Italian
Conservatoires: “N. Paganini” of Genova, “G. Martucci” of Salerno, “E. F. Dall’Abaco” of
Verona , “A. Scarlatti” of Palermo, “U.Giordano” of Foggia and “G.Tartini” of Trieste.
In 2010 he has been appointed Ambassador of Peace from the “Universal Peace Federation”
and the “Order of Malta Knights”.
Alessandro Fabrizi has been reviewed by many newspapers and specialized magazines: Seen
and Heard International, Il Messaggero, Il Tempo, Sette Giorni, Il Corriere Adriatico,
Newsunday, Italoeuropeo, Amadeus, Suonare News, Aise, Liricamente, La Notizia, Gulf News, The National, Pizzicato.lu, Classical Music Sentinel, Clic Musique.
EDUCATION
Alessandro Fabrizi began his music studies on piano and percussion instruments at the age of five at the Italian Conservatoire “A. Casella” in L’Aquila, graduating in the latter with honors. At the age of 21, he won the International Music Competition of Riviera del Conero (Ancona), from approximately five hundred participants from around the world (Gert Meditz president of the jury). A few years later he won a competition for timpanist held by the Orchestra of San Carlo in Naples, with whom he worked steadily for several years, alternating frequent collaborations with the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. During this period he also participated in several recordings of soundtracks collaborating with the roman composer Ennio Morricone and with the soloists of the Akademie des Berliner Philharmonisches, with whom he recorded, in a chamber ensemble, a live cd, on the occasion of the fiftieth Anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany. As soloist he also performed with the american pianist-composer Chick Corea broadcasting on RAI TV. At the same time, he began his composition studies and orchestra conducting at the high perfection course at the Music Academy of Pescara with M. Donato Renzetti and attending master-classes with M. Kenneth Kiesler (Professor of orchestra conducting at the University of Michigan in the United States) and Jorma Panula (Professor at the Sibelius Academy in Finland). In 2008 he was among the eight finalists selected around the world for the master-class competition in St. Petersburg, of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra (President Gennady Rozhdestvensky).
Can you introduce yourself and talk about how you got into music?
I started as a child, when I was around 4-5 years old: I had a small melodica that I used to spontaneously reproduce the music from the advertisements I heard on TV and I used my mother's pots to reproduce rhythms: obviously she was not so happy that I was constantly destroying all the wooden paddles to hit her pots!!...so at a certain point my parents, to save their kitchen, decided that perhaps it was better to buy me a drum set and they did! Some years later I began to study in a music conservatory.
What do you believe makes a great conductor, and how do you bring your unique style to your performances?
As said by the great Leonard Bernstein "Being a good conductor is a combination of study and experience" and I would like to add the word sensibility, that is a necessary ingredient to approach any Art form. But what is really important for him, is to understand the composer's intention, in the deepest sense possible, trying to catch his most authentic message which is not written in the score: the notes, both with all the given indications, are the vehicle he used to communicate something that is inside or maybe we could say among them. Once this is done, the conductor must have the ability to transfer it to the musicians in the clearest and simplest way possible, and with them, to the audience.
Can you share a memorable moment from your conducting career that had a significant impact on you?
Well, when music becomes a profession every moment is unique. But a special place in my memories refers to a concert in a cathedral in Saint Petersburg many years ago. At the end of the concert, among the various people who came to greet me, there was an old man who holding my hands in his very rough ones, thanked me while a tear ran down his face, saying only "spaciba", with shining eyes. That old man taught me that music knows no boundaries and that it is not exclusive of the most important concert halls, with glorious orchestras, famous artists and a selected audience, but it can reach anyone, anywhere, anytime, because it doesn't speaks to our mind or knowledge but directly to our spirit. Music has enormous communicative power and it can increase sensitivity improving society all over the world. I'll never forget that old man.
Would you like to share your experience participating in the European Classical Music Awards Competition?
I think that the European Classical Music Awards is a wonderful Music Organization Competition that offers to all us the possibility of a serious, free and transparent comparison with many other musicians who are involved in many different musical specializations and evaluated by an highly respected International Jury of which all the names and qualifications are reported.
What advice would you give to young musicians and aspiring conductors who dream of leading an orchestra?
The best advice that I can give to the young musicians and aspiring conductors is to be always themselves, even making mistakes, and not try to imitate anyone, because in this case they would always be a copy of someone else, and this would lead to the detriment of communication. Learning from our mistakes, step by step, we will improve ourselves until we become who we really can be, with our strengths and our weaknesses.
