Composer and pianist, Giovanni Allevi obtained diplomas in Piano and in Composition with the highest grade, respectively, at the Conservatories of Perugia “F. Morlacchi” and Milan’s “G. Verdi. Born in Ascoli Piceno Giovanni comes from an artistic family. He spends his childhood completely immersed in classical music. He studies piano at Ascoli Piceno’s “G. Spontini” Music Institute and obtains his diploma at the age of twenty-one with the highest grade at Perugia’s “F.  Morlacchi” Conservatory.
Allevi writes many compositions, but keeps them jealously locked in a drawer, and begins an intense activity as a classical concert performer in Italy.  In 1991, he serves his military conscription in the Italian Army’s National Band: the Band’s Maestro realizes Giovanni’s musical talent and includes a piano soloist in its repertoire, which to this day is a unique event that has never happened in the history of this corps. He, then, enrols in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Macerata where he opts to study Composition at the “G. Rossini” Conservatory of Fermo.  The day of his admission exam he presents a Fugue in contrapuntal style, a musical genre that is only approached in studies during the seventh years curriculum, and one of the examiners ironically observes, “He has either copied the Fugue, or then Giovanni Allevi has brought Brahms back to life”.  Obviously…it was not plagiarism! In the meantime, he attends Professor Mario Corradini’s course of “Bio-music and Music therapy”, thanks to which he deepens his awareness regarding the great power music holds; be it in the freedom it pervades or in its evocative nature through images, feelings and memories. In 1995, he composes the stage music for Euripides’ tragedy “The Trojan women” with which he wins the special award for best theatrical score at Siracusa’s Ancient Drama International Festival: this prize is his first official recognition.  The same year, during a workshop concerning the issue of European immigration, he is invited as a speaker to hold a seminary on contemporary Music at the University of Pedagogy of Stuttgart.
During his concerts, besides playing Chopin, Bach, Beethoven and Ravel, he begins performing some of his own piano compositions, arising surprise and enthusiasm in the audience. The success he enjoys encourages Giovanni to perform a repertoire made up only of his own compositions and release them in a CD. In 1997, Lorenzo Cherubini, stage-name Jovanotti, who enthusiastically welcomes Allevi’s work, decides to publish Giovanni’s debuting album for piano solo, “13 DITA”, with his own music label Soleluna. Giovanni opens, with his Pianoforte solo, the concerts of Jovanotti’s tour “L’albero”, in Rome’s Olimpic Stadium and Palaeur, at the Forum di Asiago (Milan) in front of thousands of people. Allevi proves to be a talented musician and a genial composer of contemporary classical music: his debuting album receives ample consensus with the critics and it arouses the attention of great international artists.  Japanese musician Nanae Mimura, one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of marimba solos, during a recital in New York’s Carnegie Hall, performs a few compositions from Allevi’s debuting album, which she, herself, had transcribed for her instrument. In 1998, Giovanni obtains his degree Cum Laude in Philosophy.  Furthermore, there is a tight link between his thesis (“The vacuum in Contemporary Physics”) and composition.  Giovanni, also called “the pianoforte philosopher”, senses his responsibility vis à vis music, pianoforte and Thought: he begins searching into the mysterious motivations that are at the basis of artistic creation and the pianist gesture.  He decides to undertake the composition of another great work for piano solo: “La favola che vuoi”, a live musical opera. After the degree he moves to Milano, and in 2001 he obtains his diploma in Composition with the highest grade from “G. Verdi” Conservatory. In 2003, he releases his second album for pianoforte solo, “COMPOSIZIONI”, a work less virtuous and rhythmic than the first record. Allevi corroborates his standing as an eclectic musician and capable of receiving applauses from the most different audiences.  He performs, in fact, in prestigious classical music concert events, in important Italian theatres, in rock and jazz music festivals. The consecration of his credibility on the international scene as a composer comes from the Baltimore Opera House (USA), which commissions him the monumental re-elaboration of the recitatives of Bizet’s “Carmen”.
On June 13, 2004, Giovanni Allevi debuts in front of an international public in his first concert abroad, performing “La favola che vuoi” at the National Theatre of Hong Kong. It is the first step of a constant artistic maturation that on March 6, 2005 finds him starring in New York’s Blue Note, where his show sells out twice in a row, and affirms himself as an emergent name amidst the most representative composers on the international contemporary classical music scene. No sooner does he come off the stage of most prestigious jazz club in the world, that he is asked to hold a seminary on the relationship between Music and Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of New York. At the beginning of 2005 Giovanni Allevi was confered the title of “Bösendorfer Artist”, from Austria’s Bösendorfer, “for his qualities as a sensitive interpreter and for the excellence of artistic expression at an international level.” On May 20, 2005, his third album, for pianoforte solo, “NO CONCEPT” is released and thanks to its 30,000 copies sold in Italy it obtains the Silver Award.  The album is soon released also in Germany, Austria and Korea. 2005 is a year of great international success.  The American film director Spike Lee chooses Allevi’s piece “Come sei veramente” (from the album “No Concept”) as soundtrack in his last TV commercial for BMW.   Within a few months the song becomes so famous that the publishing house Carisch releases six different editions, in a single month’s time, of the album’s score.  Thus, it distributes them worldwide.
In 2006, Allevi undertakes the “No Concept” tour that returns to the USA, China, Europe and Italy, meeting an outstanding success with the audience.  The most important national and international newspapers speak of him as “the Italian genius of pianoforte”, “Mozart of the year 2000”, “the piano philosopher”, “modern and free spirit” thanks to his ability in ferrying the classical world across to new generations and contributing to the renovation of the repertoire of cultured music.  He is also awarded the “Premio Carosone” as best pianist of the year thanks to his “melodic touch, but mostly because of his ability to move beyond any barrier of genre, category and definition”.
In August 2006, Giovanni records his fourth album for piano solo. “Joy”