BIOGRAPHY

• MM, Piano Performance and Pedgagogy, Temple University
• Professional Studies Certificate, Piano Performance, Temple University

Dominick Cristofori D'Alessandro is a Philadelphia-based pianist and piano teacher. He holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy from Temple University, as well as a Professional Studies Certificate in Piano Performance. Dominick began piano lessons at age three under the guidance of Cynthia Stuccio D'Alessandro and later studied with Alexander Fiorillo, Professor Emeritus at Temple University.

At Temple University, Dominick is a student in the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance program. He studies with Dr. Charles Abramovic and serves as a graduate teaching assistant in the Keyboard Department at the Boyer College of Music and Dance. His article, “The Unrecognized Performing Art of Group Piano Teaching,” was published in the Winter 2023-2024 edition of Piano Magazine after being selected as runner-up in the 2023 Collegiate Writing Contest. In May 2022, he was awarded the Helen Kwalwasser and Harvey Wedeen Scholarship.

In May 2021, Dominick earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with a Minor in Music Theory from the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art at the Catholic University of America, graduating summa cum laude. He also received the Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award in Piano Performance. In April 2020, Dominick was honored with the prestigious Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award for his academic and musical excellence, granted by the Presser Foundation in Philadelphia.

At Catholic University, Dominick studied with Dr. Ivo Kaltchev and performed in the Cosmopolitan Clavier Concert Series, which spans the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia regions. He sang in the Chamber Choir and had his paper, “Liszt Piano Sonata in B-minor, S. 178: An Analysis of Advancements in Sonata Form,” published in Inventio, the university's student research journal.

In July 2019, Dominick performed in Bardonecchia, Italy, at the Accademia di Musica Pinerolo Musica d'Estate festival, where he worked with pianist Roberto Plano. He received the Luciana Montanari-Mendola Award in 2018, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Society of Washington, DC, and the Marion Munson Scholarship Award from the Mozart Club of Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 2017. He was inducted into the Phi Eta Sigma Academic Honor Society in November 2018 and the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society in May 2021.

Dominick performed in a masterclass with the renowned pianist Gary Graffman in December 2019 and has participated in masterclasses with Nelita True, Robert Levin, Young-Ah Tak, and Michael McHale. He received Honorable Mention in the 2020 Lancaster International Piano Festival Competition and is a four-time winner of the Anne Liva Young Artists Piano Competition, sponsored by the NEPA Music Teachers National Association.