Alessandro Misciascistudied piano at the Conservatorio di musica Agostino in Castelfranco Veneto. In 1986, he won a prize at the international competition for lied accompanists in The Hague. In the same year, Paul Schilhawsky brought him to the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he has worked as a répétiteur ever since. As a sought-after lied accompanist, he has given concerts with Markus Werba, Zurab Zurabishvili, Mirjam Tola, Sokolin Asllani and Asmik Grigorian, among others. He has also accompanied numerous master classes by world-famous opera greats such as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Josef Greindl and Christa Ludwig. At the Salzburg Festival, he has worked as a musical assistant on several productions, including under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Noseda and Christian Thielemann. Misciasci is also committed to contemporary music. In 2001, he accompanied Caren van Oijen on the CD production of the vocal works of Dutch composer Erik Lotichius (1929-2015). In the same year, he performed the world premiere of the song cycle IX Psalmen by Thomas Bernhard for mezzo-soprano and piano by Hubert Steppan (1928-2009) at the Salzburg State Theater on the occasion of the “70 Years of Thomas Bernhard” ceremony. In 2012, the Conservatorio di musica Agostino Steffani honored Misciasci with the Premio alla carriera for special musical merits. Misciasci was a guest lecturer at the Icelandic Academy of Fine Arts in Reykjavík in 2017, where he also gave a singing masterclass in 2016.
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