Compositions of Fryderyk Chopin, Jules Burgmein, Robert Schumann

Performed by:
Lara Albesano, viola
Elena Costa, fortepiano
Alessandro Commellato, fortepiano

Lara Albesano is an Italian musician specializing in viola and violin, as well as a music coach. She is a violist in the German delian::quartett, teaches viola at the Imuse School of Music in Turin and AccadioMusic in Verona, and performs as a soloist and chamber musician. He also collaborates with many musicians and students as a coach. She currently plays an 1884 Alfonso della Corte viola.
With the delian::quartett, Lara performs in prestigious halls and festivals such as the Berlin Philharmonie and the Salzburger Festspiele, collaborating with world-renowned artists. She participated in the production of the quartet’s CD “Im wachen Traume,” released in 2024 by ECM, which includes compositions by Purcell, Byrd/Pierini and Schumann, the last piece completed by Aribert Reimann.
Since 2023, Lara has been an Associate Coach of the Coaching Association Italy. She began violin at the Suzuki Talent Center in Turin, later studying at the Turin Conservatory and earning her violin diploma with honors. She studied viola with Maestro Enrico Massimino and furthered her education at various music schools and conservatories, including the Amsterdam Conservatory and the Reina Sofia School of Music.
Lara has won prizes in numerous competitions and participated in international festivals, such as second place in the Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition. She has attended master classes and master classes with internationally renowned masters. She has also participated in the Musethica program, which raises awareness among young musicians for humanitarian aid through music.
For coaching, Lara has been trained at the Prometheus Coaching School and obtained a diploma in mental coaching from the National Educational Sports Center.

Elena Costa graduated in piano with highest honors from the G. Cantelli Conservatory in Novara, Italy, under the guidance of Alessandro Commellato. She has attended several masterclasses with renowned international pianists and perfected her skills at the Pinerolo Academy of Music under Maestro Pavel Gililov and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels with Piet Kuijken.
She has performed as a soloist on numerous occasions, including at the Ostrava Conservatory, the Tresques Festival and the Chartreuse de Valbonne. In duo with Alessandro Commellato she performed at the Persio Flacco Theater in Volterra, at the 58th Settembre Musicale di San Giulio and at the Teatro dell’Arte in Milan. She devotes herself to contemporary music by participating in the Divertimento Ensemble’s Call for young performers and performing at the Museo del ‘900 in Milan, Gallerie d’Italia in Milan, Naples and Vicenza; in 2016 she performs in Milan at Teatro Litta, Fazioli Showroom and in Trieste at Museo Revoltella.
Since 2015 she has been a piano teacher at Civico Liceo Musicale in Varese and is a Certified Audiation Institute Teacher according to E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory.

Alessandro Commellato, an Italian pianist, studied with Carlo Vidusso in Milan and specialized with Pier Narciso Masi, Evgeny Malinin and Sergio Fiorentino. He has won major international competitions and performed as a soloist with many prestigious orchestras around the world. He is known for his interpretations of contemporary works with the Divertimento Ensemble and has toured the USA, Russia, Japan and Australia. As a soloist, he has been invited by such renowned theaters as La Scala in Milan and La Fenice in Venice. Commellato is also an acclaimed chamber musician and performer of historical keyboards, participating in international festivals and recording for Brilliant Classics and RAI. He currently teaches piano at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan.