Alessandra Maria Ammara has drawn the attention of the musical world after achieving brilliant results in some of the more important international piano competitions, such as the “Gian Battista Viotti” in Vercelli, the “José Iturbi” in Valencia, the “Van Cliburn” in Fort Worth. In 2000 she was a Laureate of the “Esther Honens” international piano competition in Calgary, Canada. Thanks to this brilliant results she increased her concert activity, performing all over Europe and America (Società dei Concerti in Milan, Salle Cortot in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Gasteig in Munich, “Fryderyk Chopin” Society in Warsaw, “Museu Enescu” in Bucarest, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary, Bass Hall in Fort Worth, Meridian Center in Washington). She has played with many important orchestras such as the Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai, Orquesta Ciudad de Cordoba, Calgary Philharmonic, Cape Town Philharmonic, Natal Philharmonic in Durban, Neue Philarmonie Westfalen, Philharmonie der Nationen with conductors like Nicholas Cleobury, Justus Frantz, Bernard Labadie, Grzegorz Nowak, George Pehilvanian, En Shao.

She collaborated with many great interpreters, including Ingrid Attrot, Rocco Filippini, Alban Gerhardt, Anton Kuerti, Shauna Rolston, the Takacs Quartet, the Sine Nomine Quartet. Since 1999 she regularly plays in piano duo with Roberto Prosseda.

Ms. Ammara has recorded a successful Cd for the Canadian label Arktos with music by Debussy, Skrijabin and Chopin. She was chosen to take part in the new complete Chopin edition produced by Brilliant Classics, together with some of the greatest pianists in the world.

Alessandra Ammara graduated from the “Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory of Florence and the Accademia Pianistica of Imola. She honed her talents in some of today’s most important music schools, like the International Piano Foundation at Lake Como and the School of Music in Fiesole, with great musicians like Maria Tipo, Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Naboré and Fou Ts’ong.