Matteo Andri graduated in piano and composition with full of honours under the guidance of Maestro Renato Miani, Mario Pagotto and Maria Grazia Cabai in the
Conservatory “J. Tomadini” of Udine.
He has attended master classes with Maestro Paul Badura-Skoda, Giorgio Lovato, Siavush Gadjiev, Daniel Rivera, Bruno Canino, Boris Petrushansky and Riccardo
Risaliti. He studied chamber music with the “Trio di Trieste” and the “Trio di Parma” in the “International School Music” of Duino. In 2008 he took part to the “International Ensemble Modern Academy” in Schwaz (Austria), and in 2012 to the “Manifeste”, an exhibition of contemporary music organized by IRCAM in Paris.
Moreover he took part to conducting courses with Maestro Jose Rafaél Pascual Vilaplana, Ivan Villanova and Sandro Gorli. He is the first prize winner at the Piano-Competitions of Castiglione Fiorentino, San Pietro in Vincoli and International Piano Competition “Amadeus”. He won the second prize (first not awarded) at the Third National Piano Competition of Val Bormida and at the competition “Young Talents de Rossi A. Rios”. In 2005 he won first prize at the ninth edition of the “Stefano Marizza” Prize (Trieste). In 2011 he achieved the third prize (first not awarded) at the “Mario Zanfi Liszt-Prize” of Parma, performing the Liszt’s Totentanz accompanied
by the orchestra of the “Teatro Regio”.
He played for concert seasons of “Amici della Musica” of Vicenza and Udine, the International Music Festival “Nei suoni dei luoghi”, “Musical Encounters” at the Sala Puccini of the Conservatory of Milan, for the concert season “Varese for Varese”, for the 2nd “International Piano Festival” in Sacile; he took part to many editions of “Udine Contemporanea”. He has also featured in the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg both as a soloist and chamber musician. He plays for the “Piccolo Festival del Friuli Venezia Giulia” since the beginning in 2008.
He has performed several concertos for piano and orchestra with “Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia- Giulia”, “Dolomiti Symphonia” and “Orchestra Mitteleuropea”.
He has played alongside renowned musicians such as the oboe player Jose Manuel Rojas, the clarinetist Nicola Bulfone and Giampiero Sobrino, trombonist Sergio Bernetti, the violinist Pavel Vernikov, the violist Vladimir Mendelssohn, the saxophonist Marco Gerboni, the Pražák Quartet and members of “Solisti Veneti”.
Since 2010 he plays with violinist Laura Bortolotto, with whom he played for “Amici della Musica” in Padua, Verona, Mestre, Pescara and Rovigo, for “Camerata musicale Sulmonese”, for Verdi’s Season at MAC in Milan, for the concert Seasons at Teatro “Comunale” in Monfalcone , at “Teatro “Del Monaco” in Treviso and at Teatro “Comunale -Abbado” in Ferrara; on April 2017 they took a concert at the Quirinale in Rome, broadcasted by RaiRadio3. They played all around the world, as in Poland, Germany, Japan, Chile, Sweden, USA, Argentina, Turkey, Austria, Greece.
He is a member of “Piano Twelve”, a group of twelve pianist, with whom he has exhibited in various places, like “Teatro Strehler” in Milan, “Teatro Duse” in Bologna, “Teatro Verdi” in Gorizia, “Palazzo Pitti” in Florence, “Intesa Skyscraper” in Turin, “Pianocity” and “EXPO 2015” in Milan.
He is the founder, the artistic director and conductor of “Belluno Youth Orchestra”, a group whit more than forty musicians coming from different schools of Belluno’s province, whit whom he plays great classic, romantic and modern repertoire .
His music has been performed in the festival “Udine Contemporary 2007 and 2013”, in the Conservatories of Udine and Bolzano, in the St. Francis Church of Pordenone, in the Musem of Salorno (BZ) and at the Festival Echos (Italy-.Slovinia) in 2014.
