Alessandro Esseno

Who is Alessandro Esseno?

Alessandro Esseno is an Italian composer and pianist.

Esseno started studying piano with the stepbrother of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, then continued near the conservatory of S. Cecilia in Rome. He completed his studies with teachers including Boris Porena before taking a course in electronic music with the contemporary composer Domenico Guaccero.

In the 1980s he collaborated as a pianist and arranger with some of the most important Italian artists in the RCA, and in the United States with the rock group Toto. In 1990 he published his first albums, followed by an Italian tour, the publication of a single in 1992 and a European tour.

In 1995 he went on tour in Italy with the Milano Concerti and, after much preparation, in 2003 released a new album. In the same year he began composing with Rai Trade, for which he created a series of works about the RAI networks achieving success with "Russicum", "To die of politics" and "The holy alliance". In 2006 Esseno published his new album, "La terra non finisce all'orizzonte", which received rave reviews and multiple downloads in iTunes. In 2007 realizes, on the order of Interior Ministry, the original music of the show One night a Saturday night on the Saturday night carnage in fact, especially among young people. In 2008 composed the original music for Journey to the South, 5-point program of the RAI directed by Amedeo Ricucci, a remake of the transmission of the same name Sergio Zavoli. In 2009 creates original music for a film / documentary on the figure of the journalist Carlo Casalegno, killed in 1977 by Brigate Rosse. In August he was invited to the prestigious Ravello Festival next to names on the bill as Claudio Abbado and Chick Corea, where he presented a preview of the new piano solo album titled Pictures out around the world on October 6. In 2010 parallel to the "Pictures tour", creates original music for a film about the figure of the great psychiatrist Franco Basaglia as well as treat the music of a documentary on the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.