BIOGRAPHY
Adalberto M. Riva graduated in piano with honours from
the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He then attended master classes of
Franco Gei, Viktor Merzhanov, Nazzareno
Carusi, Paul Badura-Skoda, Vitaly
Margulis, Vladimir Krpan, Bruno Canino, Aldo Ciccolini in Italy, Germany,
France, England and U.S.A., as well as attending the Accademia Pianistica in
Imola from 1995 to 1998, and the Lausanne Conservatory of Music where he
achieved his Virtuosité with professor Dag
Achatz from 1999 to 2001, with whom he was invited as assistant at EPTA
Summer School in Dubrovnik in the year 2000.
Riva was a
semifinalist in the Martha del Vecchio Piano Competition in Arenzano (Italy)
and the Premio Venezia Competition and was a prizewinner in other Italian piano
competitions, including the Selezione Giovani Pianisti Alberto Mozzati (1987 –
1988), Concorso Schubert (1988) and the Città di Albenga (1991 – 1992). He was also a prizewinner at the Cava dei Tirreni
International Piano Competition (1993) . In 1995 Adalberto Riva was awarded the
A.R.A.M. prize to underwrite a concert tour to Poland and Germany, and to take
part in the Musica 2000 Review presented by CIDIM in Rome in 1996.
He appears regularly as recitalist, chamber musician
and piano soloist especially in Italy and in Switzerland: among the most
important performances we list concerts with Milan Conservatory Orchestra in
Brescia and Bergamo International Festival and in Salzburg at the Mozarteum in
1991, with the Filarmonica Banatul in Timisoara (Romania) under the baton of
Jean-François Antonioli in 1998-1999-2000, with a video recording broadcasted
by Swiss television, with Angelicum and Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestras in Milan,
with “ensemble le Musiche” in Barga in 2006; recitals in St. Petersburg,
Hamburg. Lübeck, Kiel, Warsaw, Malta; in Italy recitals in Milan, Trento,
Turin, Cremona, Florence, Montepulciano, Bologna, Rome, Naples, and others for
many musical institutions and associations in the North and in the South of the
country, in Switzerland recitals in Lausanne, Geneva, Yverdon, Romainmôtier,
Vevey, Neuchâtel, Lugano (Settimane Musicali) and others places, including the
2003 and 2005 Schubertiade editions, in cooperation with Swiss radio Espace 2.
After 2002 he has been organizing his professional
activity in cycles of concerts-lectures
about the history of piano literature. Articulated upon different themes and
patterns, those events have been presented in several music schools and
institutions in Italy and abroad, in Milan and its environment (Monza, Inzago,
Cassano d’Adda, Trezzano Rosa), Luino and Blonay, on the Geneva lake, and Yverdon,
where he is regularly invited every year to hold (for more details see concerts-lectures,
only in Italian)
During the past years Riva has been teaching regularly
in several music schools in Italy and abroad, such as the “Liceo Musicale Vincenzo
Appiani” in Monza, “La Nuova Musica”
in Milan, Liceo Musicale “Giuseppe Verdi” in Luino, and “Croqu’notes” music
school in Versoix, near Geneva.
Actually he is attending the “Guido Cantelli” Conservatory
of Music in Novara (Italy), in the class of Ettore Borri.