"Andrea is a very passionate musician and a pianist with a great sensitivity and technical means"

 

Mikhail Voskresensky

concert pianist and piano professor at the

P. I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory

 

Born in Cagliari, Italy, Andrea Vivanet began to study the piano at the age of 8 and continued his studies at the Conservatorio di Musica P. L. da Palestrina in Cagliari.

When he was 13 he performed the Mozart concert K. 414 with the Orchestra of the Opera House of Cagliari. He was very young when he won the 1st prize at the G. B. Pergolesi piano competition.

He continued his studies with Christa Bützberger and Marina Rossi and he graduated with honors at the Conservatorio di Musica G. Frescobaldi in Ferrara. He received the diploma with honors after attending the Triennial Masterclass in Piano and Chamber Music Ars et Labor, under the guidance of Christa Bützberger and Marina Rossi.

Afterwords he studied in Hungary with professors Balázs Szokolay and István Lantos at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest where he obtained the Master Degree with honors in piano performance.

During this period he also attended classes with Miklós Perényi, András Keller, Gábor Csalog, Géza Hargitai, Ferenc Rados.

He took part in several masterclasses held by renowned pianists and musicians such as Franco Rossi, Mikhail Voskresenky, Paul Badura Skoda.

In October 2014 he was awarded the 3rd prize at the 15th Osaka International Music Competition. He gave many recitals as a soloist and in several chamber music ensembles in Italy and in other countries such as Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary (Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum in Budapest) and Georgia (Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire Museum).

He has  recently  performed  at the Golovanov Museum of Moscow and at the Chaliapin Museum of Saint Petersburg. 

In 2024 he has performed the solo version of Stravinsky Pétrouchka at Magyar Zene Háza aside Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller.

In recent years Andrea Vivanet has recorded four albums with works by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Bartók, Mussorgsky, Taneyev, Tcherepnin, Shostakovich and Szymanowski, with labels Sheva Collection, Centaur Records, Aldilà Records and Naxos.
His recordings have been broadcast by HR2-Kultur Radio and rbbKultur (Germany), Danish Radio, Greek National Radio, Radio Classic (Kazakhstan) and Radio Orfey (Russia). 

An album dedicated to Sweelinck keyboard works has been released by the label Brilliant Classics in March 2024.
Andrea's albums have received critical acclaim in major international magazines, including Gramophone, Pizzicato, and others.

Currently, Andrea Vivanet serves as a piano professor at the Wiener Musikademie.