M U S I C A L  T R A I N I N G

Alessandria is a pianist, concert performer, and educator who is interested in the interdisciplinary relationships between the musical arts and other forms of expression. As a performer she carefully chooses repertoire that explores the temporal and spatial aspects of music, playing with the border between classical performance and performance art. Alessandria was born in Montréal, Canada where, in 2012, she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Solo Piano Performance and Musical Arts at McGill University, under the guidance of Marina Mdivani — great Georgian pianist and pupil of Emil Gilels. In the same year, she moved to Florence, Italy to continue her studies in music with M° Giuseppe Fricelli at the Cherubini Conservatory of Florence, where in 2015 she obtained a Master's Degree in Solo Piano Performance. Her experiences in Florence would help shape her as a musician, performer, and educator. She has also studied piano with Gabriel Tacchino, Jin Ju, Daniel Pollack, and Emil Naoumoff, and fortepiano with Stefano Fiuzzi.

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Alessandria has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestra in festivals and events in Italy, England, Malta, Hungary, Denmark and the Czech Republic.

In October 2015 she inaugurated the Sonic Somatic festival at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence with a 15-hour performance of Vexations by Erik Satie, and in the 2017 Sonic Somatic Festival, she performed artist and composer Ari Benjamin Meyers' art piece dedicated to Vexations at the Serre Torrigiani in Florence. These two performances resulted in the pianist devoting all her musical efforts to Satie's music, which would then lead her to the music of Les Six, Nadia Boulanger, American minimal music, and the conceptual post-minimalist music of Simon Rackham — English composer based in Italy, who dedicated Free Will for Alessandria Di Nardo to the pianist.

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Alongside her concert career, Alessandria deepened her exploration of music as a pathway for self-discovery and personal growth. She earned her facilitation certificate in Ayurpsico in 2025 — a method founded by Letizia Vercellotti that brings together Yoga philosophy, Ayurvedic principles, and Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis — through the International Academy of Ayurveda. During the three-year experience in Ayurpsico she began studying Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound, with Gian Antonio Fabris who would later introduce her to her current teacher Malini Viswanath with whom Alessandria continues to cultivate practices rooted in Carnatic music traditions. These experiences expanded her vision of music as not only an art form, but also a tool for inner awareness and transformation.

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​The Alessandria Piano Studio is the physical and virtual space dedicated to the study of piano and music in all its facets. Through the study of technique, theory, classical and modern repertoire, as well as periodic musical experiences on stage and in group masterclass settings, Alessandria guides her students in experimenting and discovering their own expressive and communicative abilities at the piano.

Drawing from her background in Ayurpsico, Alessandria also applies this method in her teaching. This allows her to better understand her pupils’ emotional language and to help them use piano practice as a means of cultivating focus, resilience, and self-awareness — activating not only their musical skills, but also their inner resources to achieve goals.

Alessandria's piano students hold concerts every school year in Florence, performing as soloists and in piano duo, and many of her students hold music certifications. Beyond her studio, she also curates workshops and holistic sound experiences where participants are invited to experience music and sound as a bridge between art, well-being, and personal transformation.