Biography
An exciting young Italian piano talent, the 26-year-old Andrea Molteni is building his international profile with regular appearances in the US, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, China, and Singapore.
Three albums, released since the pandemic on the Dutch label Brilliant Classics, have received a lot of international praise and further solidified Mr. Molteni’s status as major emerging talent.
His recording of the complete piano works of Petrassi and Dallapiccola, little-known Italian composers of the 20th century, was broadcast on France Musique and Radio Classica. This “strange but wonderful album” (The Art Music Lounge) showcases Andrea Molteni not only as supremely gifted pianist, who “sparkles as he rips through the music with energy and élan,” but also as a passionate researcher and a champion of new repertoire.
The subsequent album of Scarlatti sonatas was broadcast on MDR Kultur and positively reviewed by Italian and French critics who noted its "virtuosic agility” Fanfare magazine).
​The most recent release, Con alcune licenze (featured as "Eine wunderbare Aufnahme" in Piano News and reviewed on the prestigious magazine International Piano), focuses on the most heroic music by Beethoven: Hammerklavier, Op. 110 and The Grosse Fuge, never before recorded in this piano solo version.
As a student at the prestigious International Lake Como Piano Academy, Andrea Molteni enjoys the artistic guidance of William Grant Naboré and Stanislav Ioudenitch. In 2020, he was awarded a master’s degree Magna cum Laude in Advanced Performance Studies by the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Following his graduation with honorable mention from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Como, where he was mentored by Mario Patuzzi, Andrea continued to study in Milan with Vincenzo Balzani. He also took part in various masterclasses with Sir. Andras Schiff, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Arie Vardi, Pavel Gililov, Dang Thai Son, Piotr Paleczny, Vladimir Feltsman, and Christopher O’Riley.
At the age of 15, Mr. Molteni received a special scholarship of Cercle Wagner Association in France, which allowed him to participate at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner, as well as to perform a series of concerts in Nice, Menton, Cannes, and Monte Carlo. In the same year, Mr. Molteni formed a youth orchestra, “L’Orchestra del Lago”, which he conducted and played with.
Since then he has played at the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Esplanade in Singapore, Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Scriabin Museum in Moscow, Verbrugghen Hall of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, National Opera Center and DiMenna Center in New York, Concert Hall of Chopin Music University in Warsaw, Werner Recital Hall of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and other venues around the world.
Mr. Molteni regularly performs with orchestras, such as Orchestra Sinfonia di Sanremo, Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi, Orchestra Filarmonica Mihail Johra di Bacau in Romania, and Orchestra of the Costa Rica University.
In the coming season Andrea Molteni has been invited to tour in China and Australia. In his home country he will be performing in Milan, Bergamo, Cremona and other cities. His 2024/25 schedule currently contains 30 concerts on three different continents.