LIVE 2010
INTERNATIONAL "SOLO PIANO TOUR 2010" |
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Giovanni Allevi (who is 40 but looks 15 years younger) is a pianist, composer and conductor who graduated with top marks in piano and composition. He also holds a cum laude degree in Philosophy (he wrote his dissertation on ìThe Void in Contemporary Physicsî) but still says: "Through my music I see the world with the eyes of a child". On stage he wears jeans and tennis shoes, not because he seeks to change the usual appearance of the classical musician but because he wants to feel completely himself: all he cares about is his music, the rest is optional.
Thus, Allevi became a social phenomenon, the enfant terrible who shocked the musical Academia with his talent and charisma. He became part of the imaginary of the new generations, who pack the concert halls in which he plays and with whom he has a special relationship, which Allevi himself defines "mysteriousî".
Amongst the most recent of his many successful concerts and tours are the opening concert of his US tour at the New York Carnegie Hall and the 1st of September 2009 concert at the Arena di Verona, an historical event which was defined as the "Woodstock of contemporary classical music"; in this concert Giovanni conducted his symphonic music, played by the "All Stars Orchestra" (an orchestra of 90 musicians chosen form the world's best musical ensembles) in front of 12000 people. This concert was also released in a special CD/DVD edition by Sony Music.
However, Giovanni never abandoned his big love, the piano. In fact, on 19th March Allevi began a new international "Piano Solo" tour with a concert at London Queen Elizabeth Hall, that will continue in Korea (Ansan, Seoul), Georgia (Tbilisi), China (Shanghai, in occasion of Expo 2010), Thailandia (Bangkok), Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama, Osaka e Kyoto), Italy (Milan, Rome, Turin, Genoa, Florence, Bologna, Naples, Verona, etc.).
Piano Solo tour 2010 predates a new release in which Giovanni Allevi will return to the solo piano in his most intimate and personal dimension.
| 26 June | Parma - Parco Ducale info tel 0521-706214 |
| 30 June | Brescia - Villa Fenaroli info www.cipiesse-bs.it - tel 030 2791881 |
| 5 July | Prato - Anfiteatro Museo Pecci info 055 667566 |
| 8 July | Vigevano - Castello Sforzesco info www.ticketone.it |
| 9 July | Codroipo (UD) - Villa Manin info tel 899 325 226 |
| 10 July | Villafranca (VR) - Castello Scaligero info 045 8039156 |
| 24 July | Rimini - 105 Stadium info www.ticketone.it |
| 25 July | Carrara (MS) Porto di Marina di Carrara info tel 0585 811014 |
| 27 July | Viterbo - Arena Valle Faul info tel 892982 |
| 30 July | San Benedetto del Tronto - Porto info www.vivaticket.it |
| 31 July - 1 August | Roma - Cavea info tel 892982 |
| 3 August | Margherita di Savoia (BT) - info a breve info tel 080 9670573 |
| 05 August | Lecce - P.zza Libertini info www.bookingshow.com |
| 06 August | Agrigento - Valle dei Templi info tel 0922.25.019- 0922.43.74.74 |
| 07 August | Patti - Teatro Greco di Tindari info tel 091 6260177 |
| 9 August | Anzio - Villa Adele info tel 0773 414521 |
| 10 August | Piombino - Piazza Boivio info a breve |
| 11 August | San Giminiano (SI) - Piazza Duomo info tel 392 4308616 |
| 13 August | Cagliari - Anfiteatro Romano info Circuito Greenticket Sarconline tel. 070684275, Cagliari; Box Office tel. 070657428 |
| 14 August | Arbatax (OG) - Festival Rocce Ro |
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| 19 March | Londra - Queen Elizabeth Hall - Sounthbank Centre prevendite www.southbankcentre.co.uk |
| 17 April | Ansan (Corea) - Ansan Arts Center info www.ansanart.com |
| 18 April | Seoul (Corea) - Yougsan Arthall info www.youngsanarthall.com |
| 27 April | La Spezia - Teatro Civico info www.orchestramassacarrara.it - tel. 0585 811014 |
| 29 April | Varese - Teatro di Varese info www.teatrodivarese.it - tel. 0332 284224 - 247897 |
| 03 May | Milano - Teatro degli Arcimboldi prevendite www.ticketone.it |
| 05/06 May | Bologna - Teatro Delle Celebrazioni info www.teatrocelebrazioni.it - tel 051.6153370 – 6153374 |
| 08 May | Cesena - Carisport info www.teatrobonci.it - tel 0547.355959 |
| 09 May | Bari - Teatro Petruzzelli |
| 11/12 May | Torino - Teatro Colosseo info www.teatrocolosseo.it tel 011 6698034 - 011 6505195 |
| 14 May | Sassuolo (MO) - Teatro Carani info www.teatrocarani.it - tel 0536 811084 |
| 15 May | Sanremo - Teatro Ariston info www.aristonsanremo.com - tel.: 0184 50707 |
| 17/18 May | Firenze - Teatro Verdi prevendite www.ticketone.it |
| 23 May | Genova - Teatro Carlo Felice info www.carlofelice.it - Tel 0105381.1 |
| 24 May | Napoli - Teatro Augusteo info www.teatroaugusteo.it - tel 081 414243 |
| 27 May | Tbilisi (Georgia) - V.Saradjishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire info http://bit.ly/a77YRL |
| 04 June | Shanghai (Cina) - Expo2010 info http://www.expo2010italia.gov.it/area.asp?a=575&oc=762&d=2688 |
| 08 June | Shanghai (Cina) - Times Square info a breve |
| 12 June | Tokyo (Japan) - Toppan Hall info http://www.toppanhall.com/concert/detail/201006121430.html |
DISCOVER GIOVANNI'S COMPOSITIONS
Click on the album covers to preview the songs
Evolution
Joy
No Concept
Critics comments
Corriere della Sera - Franchini
Allevi at the Blue Note,
Impulsive and rebellious.
Tall, bony, curly-haired, his clothes creased but with a winning smile, Giovanni Allevi, having acquired a sudden but authentic level of fame, presented his latest album... He's a classical musician but, thanks to his age and cultural background, is able to accept all the sounds that accompany our way of living... There is a kind of impulsiveness and passion in his way of being an artist, there's a wilfulness and rebelliousness, a love for the piano's past and the desire to overturn traditions by opening up new paths. A huge success.
(Vittorio Franchini)
Impulsive and rebellious.
Tall, bony, curly-haired, his clothes creased but with a winning smile, Giovanni Allevi, having acquired a sudden but authentic level of fame, presented his latest album... He's a classical musician but, thanks to his age and cultural background, is able to accept all the sounds that accompany our way of living... There is a kind of impulsiveness and passion in his way of being an artist, there's a wilfulness and rebelliousness, a love for the piano's past and the desire to overturn traditions by opening up new paths. A huge success.
(Vittorio Franchini)
Corriere della Sera - Luzzatto Fegiz
Allevi, a "stateless" piano which fits no stereotype.
At his starting line was the piano-playing virtuosity of Chopin, Bach, Beethoven and Ravel, then Giovanni Allevi arrived at a genre of music which is hugely expressive, his compositions cannot be compared to jazz, nor pop and not even to contemporary classical music. A no-man's land, from a critical point of view. So who is in a position to judge a "stateless" artist? Whoever's destiny it is to listen to a track from the piano album No Concept, in which the full and the void, sound and silence blend together naturally, amongst playfulness, surges, meditation, in a transversal narration which breaks the mould, although without inciting or experimentalism, as demonstrated by Ossessione. All in all, music which is easy to digest but at the same time of great nobility, energetic in its clarity and always distancing itself from any stereotype.
(Mario Luzzatto Fegiz)
At his starting line was the piano-playing virtuosity of Chopin, Bach, Beethoven and Ravel, then Giovanni Allevi arrived at a genre of music which is hugely expressive, his compositions cannot be compared to jazz, nor pop and not even to contemporary classical music. A no-man's land, from a critical point of view. So who is in a position to judge a "stateless" artist? Whoever's destiny it is to listen to a track from the piano album No Concept, in which the full and the void, sound and silence blend together naturally, amongst playfulness, surges, meditation, in a transversal narration which breaks the mould, although without inciting or experimentalism, as demonstrated by Ossessione. All in all, music which is easy to digest but at the same time of great nobility, energetic in its clarity and always distancing itself from any stereotype.
(Mario Luzzatto Fegiz)
Giovanni Allevi, a magic touch which flies high between genres and styles.
...it seems that Allevi wants to free himself from the inevitable curse of the conservatory to completely liberate his creative imagination and improvisation... many things could be written about him, to the point at which choices must be made. Amid his formal qualities, one of the easiest to appreciate is the beauty of his touch and his phrasing, and the impossibility to categorise his songs, even amongst those who insist on the existence of "musics" rather than just music. Allevi plays as his emotions dictate, nothing more, nothing less.
(Franco Fayenz)
...it seems that Allevi wants to free himself from the inevitable curse of the conservatory to completely liberate his creative imagination and improvisation... many things could be written about him, to the point at which choices must be made. Amid his formal qualities, one of the easiest to appreciate is the beauty of his touch and his phrasing, and the impossibility to categorise his songs, even amongst those who insist on the existence of "musics" rather than just music. Allevi plays as his emotions dictate, nothing more, nothing less.
(Franco Fayenz)
Q.N. Il Giorno, La Nazione, Il Resto del Carlino
Allevi, outstanding escape from the 1900s. The legend of the piano-playing philosopher who has written 13 post-romantic suites to seduce New York and the whole world.
...the 13 mini-suites, the movements of his latest work, are a knowing fluxus of emotional writings which breathe in the cultured-popular air with a purity of absolute values... Giovanni is on the run, on a peak like a mountaineer, from the academic world and the standardisation of pop. A solo pianist at the commands who rejects the mathematical concepts of Western Music and the criminal calculation which bends musical language to meet the rules of the market...
(Marco Mangiarotti)
...the 13 mini-suites, the movements of his latest work, are a knowing fluxus of emotional writings which breathe in the cultured-popular air with a purity of absolute values... Giovanni is on the run, on a peak like a mountaineer, from the academic world and the standardisation of pop. A solo pianist at the commands who rejects the mathematical concepts of Western Music and the criminal calculation which bends musical language to meet the rules of the market...
(Marco Mangiarotti)
Allevi, the pianist that cannot be labelled
The most difficult aspect is to try to classify his music, neatly slot him into a genre. The easiest thing is to be bewitched by his impetuous, torrential yet refined style, on the right road to full maturity. He is a musician brimming with imagination and fervour, Giovanni Allevi... with a shining future to be explored on his keyboard; who, especially from the stage while in concert, reveals his resources and his meticulous application, in his search for technical perfection and a depth of comprehension...
(Enzo Gentile)
The most difficult aspect is to try to classify his music, neatly slot him into a genre. The easiest thing is to be bewitched by his impetuous, torrential yet refined style, on the right road to full maturity. He is a musician brimming with imagination and fervour, Giovanni Allevi... with a shining future to be explored on his keyboard; who, especially from the stage while in concert, reveals his resources and his meticulous application, in his search for technical perfection and a depth of comprehension...
(Enzo Gentile)
Giovanni Allevi, a virtuoso of the keyboard somewhere between classical, pop and jazz. The pianist of the Infinite.
Troubled times are ahead for those who are born simple and who remain simple: for them and their good name. But those who are born complex, or rather human, and have their lives direct them towards the ideal, or rather, the mirage of a golden simplification of things, in and around them, well, they're perhaps worthy of some consideration. And this is the case with Giovanni Allevi, a pianist-composer born in Ascoli Piceno around 36 years ago, although he looks ten years younger, so smooth and politely optimistic is his face, his words slip off his tongue with natural ease, his way of confidently living his life free of existential obstacles and burdens... But what is this piano music? Let's put it like this: if it were a season it would be spring, if it were a dish it would be a light salad, if it were a colour it would be the azure that swirls around the domes of mosques...
(Enrico Cavallotti)
Troubled times are ahead for those who are born simple and who remain simple: for them and their good name. But those who are born complex, or rather human, and have their lives direct them towards the ideal, or rather, the mirage of a golden simplification of things, in and around them, well, they're perhaps worthy of some consideration. And this is the case with Giovanni Allevi, a pianist-composer born in Ascoli Piceno around 36 years ago, although he looks ten years younger, so smooth and politely optimistic is his face, his words slip off his tongue with natural ease, his way of confidently living his life free of existential obstacles and burdens... But what is this piano music? Let's put it like this: if it were a season it would be spring, if it were a dish it would be a light salad, if it were a colour it would be the azure that swirls around the domes of mosques...
(Enrico Cavallotti)
Italian pianist Giovanni Allevi greets the Shanghai audience in the Oriental Art Centre
The maestro is acclaimed for his original style, a free fusion of classical, contemporary, pop and jazz. The idea of "No Concept" best represents his music, which shies away from standard Beethoven or Mozart repertoire and creates a style full of inspiration and improvisation. His modern and free spirit has drawn a new audience from rock music lovers...The concert hall was filled.
(Star News)
The maestro is acclaimed for his original style, a free fusion of classical, contemporary, pop and jazz. The idea of "No Concept" best represents his music, which shies away from standard Beethoven or Mozart repertoire and creates a style full of inspiration and improvisation. His modern and free spirit has drawn a new audience from rock music lovers...The concert hall was filled.
(Star News)
BIOGRAPHY
Giovanni Allevi is one of the top pure composers of the current international scene.
His compositions outline the tenets of a new Contemporary Classical Music, via cultivated and moving language which distances itself from the dodecaphonic and minimalist trend, and thus declaring a new European rhythmic and melodic intensity. (read more....)
