Born and raised in Rome, Italy, Alessandra Tiraterra has drawn the attention of the musical world when she started concertizing at the age of fourteen. She has performed hundreds of recitals for festivals and institutions in Europe and in the US, including Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Society, Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Salle Cortot in Paris, Teatro Ghione and Teatro Marcello in Rome, Festival Musicale delle Nazioni, Sabaudia Musica Festival, Mallery Concert Series, Noble Arts Recital Series, Zimmerli Art Museum The Arts of Music Concert series. Winner of many national and international piano and music competitions and prizes (“A.M.A. Calabria”, “Citta’ del Barocco”, “Citta’ del Vasto”, “Roma–Premio Agora’ 80”, “I giovani e l’arte”, “Alessandro Longo”, and “Citta’ di Velletri” in Italy, and in the United States MTNA “Award of Excellence”, “Stegner” scholarship, “Alfredo Barili” scholarship, “Thomas Brumby” Concerto Competition, Pro-Mozart Competition and its scholarship to study at the Mozarteum Universität in the summer 2006, MNTA “Outstanding Performer”, Who’s Who award “for the outstanding professional and academic achievements in the field of music”, Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, and Mason Gross Chamber Music Competition), she has an impressive educational background in piano performance: she studied at the “A. Casella” Conservatory of Music in Italy (Bachelor of Music), the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris “A. Cortot”, France (Brevet d’Execution Pianistique), Georgia State University (Master of Music), Mozarteum Universität in Salzburg, Austria (Post-graduate Studies), and Temple University, where she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in May 2017.

She owes her formation to great concert pianists and pedagogues, among who Sergio Perticaroli, Marcella Crudeli, Joaquin Soriano, Sergei Dorensky, and Charles Abramovic. Besides being a concert artist, she has taught in the college and pre-college divisions. Students from her studio are regularly prize winners in piano and music competitions. She maintains an independent piano studio in Hillsborough, NJ. Alessandra Tiraterra is an active member of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association), CMS (College Music Society), EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association), and MAMTG (Mid-Atlantic Music Teachers Guild). She often teaches master-classes and is invited as a jury member of piano competitions.

She dedicates to research in music: her doctoral dissertation, Early German Idealism and Historical Perspectives in Beethoven’s Eroica Variations, Op.35, was published by ProQuest in June 2017, and she has presented research works for the CMS and MTNA. Moreover, she has published with Dante University of America Press and has been invited as a lecturer by colleges and societies in Europe and in the US.
Alessandra Tiraterra is also a composer. She had the privilege to work for two years, while a student at the “A. Casella” Conservatory of Music in Italy, with Italian contemporary composer Sergio Rendine and, during her doctoral studies, with American composer Jan Krzywicki. Among her works, her output for piano includes Ganes e Salvans, The Red Ribbon, Pandora’s Box, Aurora, Fly High, Return to Life, Missing Rome, and Certi Piccoli Amori; she also composed Piano Trio No. 1 in G Minor.

"A very musical pianist"
-Sergio Perticaroli, Emeritus Professor of Piano at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy

"…her dancing hands on the keyboard were fascinating...she is a true virtuoso of her instrument..."
-Brenda Kean,Musical Critic, United Kingdom

"Brilliant, passionate, wonderful pianist!"
-Christopher Axworthy, Ghione Theater Director

"...a pianist who really impresses...her Waldstein Sonata shows an evident control of all her expressive and technical means"
-Sergei Dorensky, Dean of the Piano Faculty at the Tchaikowsky Conservatory of Music, Moscow, Russia