Alessandro Bistarelli, pianist and musicologist, born in Città di Castello, pursued his musical studies at the Conservatorio “Francesco Morlacchi” di Perugia, where he graduated in piano.
He later refined his training in Rome with Eugenio De Rosa and, for many years, with the Genoese pianist Massimiliano Damerini.
He also attended courses given by Guido Agosti, György Sándor, Andrea Pestalozza, Christiane Montandon, Konstantin Bogino, Christa Butzberger, and, for Bach interpretation, Huguette Dreyfus.
At the Accademia Musicale Pescarese, Scuola Superiore di Musica, he attended the course taught by Piotr Lachert, obtaining the Diploma in Didattica Pianistica.
In 2014, at the Conservatorio di Perugia, he earned the Diploma Accademico di Secondo Livello in Discipline Musicali (Pianoforte), under the guidance of Maestro Stefano Ragni, with a final mark of 110/110, lode and menzione d’onore. His thesis focused on the late piano works of Aleksandr Skrjabin.
He has been a guest of numerous musical associations, including the Festival Internazionale di Musica da Camera Italiana del Comprensorio del Trasimeno, Centro Italiano Diffusione Musica da Camera di Anzio, Amici della Musica di Cortona, Associazione Musicale Orfeo Stillo di Paola, Rassegna Musicale Spoltore Musica, Amici della Musica di Sansepolcro, Festival Max Reger in Merano, Festival Chioggia Laguna d’Arte, Casa Menotti and Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, Associazione Giovanile Musicale di Perugia, Postignano “Un castello all’orizzonte”, Cappella Musicale della Cattedrale di San Rufino in Assisi, Festival di Musica Classica di Castiglione del Lago, Tetracordo Festival in Isernia, Todi Festival, Festival Federico Cesi, Associazione Musicale Felice Romani Moneglia, Circolo Culturale Lya De Barberiis in Valmontone, Associazione Amici della Musica di Foligno, and the Circolo dei Lettori of Turin.
He has performed in Mexico in San Luis Potosí, Puebla, Morelia, Acapulco, Córdoba, Veracruz, Toluca, and Guadalajara.
In 2002 he was invited by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Finland to give a commemorative concert for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Muzio Clementi, and in 2008 he performed for the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Libya (Suggestioni musicali del ’900. Il pianismo di Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin e di Piotr Lachert).
For more than ten years, Alessandro Bistarelli has been a leading interpreter of the piano music of the contemporary Polish composer Piotr Lachert, performing numerous works in first Italian and international performances. In this role, the Istituto Polacco di Roma invited him in 2006 to present a monographic concert in the presence of the composer.
He has performed in Switzerland for the Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Hôtel de Ville (Yverdon-les-Bains, 2011), for the Associazione Culturale Cenacolo (Yverdon-les-Bains, 2009, 2022, and 2025), and for the Società Dante Alighieri (Biel/Bienne, 2025).
Noteworthy is his collaboration with the Umbrian wind quintet Zephirus and with the Neapolitan actress Anna Maria Ackermann, with whom he has created original artistic projects dedicated to Muzio Clementi and Aleksandr Skrjabin.
For many years, Alessandro Bistarelli has been engaged in musicological research on the compositional thought and piano works of Aleksandr Skrjabin, of whom he is a passionate interpreter.
On the centenary of the composer’s death, he recorded a cycle of four broadcasts for Radio Vaticana (Skrjabin o il delirio dell’infinito: riflessioni sul pensiero estetico e filosofico di Alexandr Nikolaevič Skrjabin – Mosca 1872–1915).
In 2016 he recorded, for the record label Sheva Collection, a CD dedicated to the cycle of the Russian composer’s late works.
He has given lecture-recitals on Skrjabin for the Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia (2022) and the Conservatorio di Musica di Latina (2023).
As a speaker, he has collaborated with the Società Teosofica Italiana (2016 and 2025) and with the International Scriabin 2025 Festival.
For Zecchini Editore, he published the book Le ultime produzioni pianistiche di Aleksandr Skrjabin poeta, filosofo e mistico (2021).
On the occasion of a Skrjabin concert held for the Associazione Giovanile Musicale di Perugia, music critic Stefano Ragni wrote in Il Giornale dell’Umbria:
“Through a clear interpretative vision and an impeccable articulation of tempi and rhythmic structures that the composer developed at the limits of the informal, Bistarelli guided his listeners toward a granular, vibrant world of emotional pulsations that allude to cosmic ecstasy.”
