Alzek Misheff, Ritratto (1994)
The passion for sharing knowledge and musical culture are the drivers that unite Andrea Massimo Grassi performances, musical research and training.
Born in Milan, he graduated in clarinet at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’, under the guidance of Primo Borali. Later on he specialised with Vittorio Luna and with Masha Ianuchewskaya, Maureen Jones and Dario De Rosa for chamber music. In 1995 he received the prestigious ‘Diploma d’onore’ from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena, and in 1996 the higher diploma of the Accademia Internazionale di Musica of Biella as a student of Antony Pay.
He has performed chamber music in the main cities of Italy as well as in USA, Russia, Germany, Spain, France and Portugal, playing for the University of Chicago, the Minnesota State University (Moorhead, USA), the Teatro alla Scala of Milan, the Université de Rouen, the RAI Radiotelevisione italiana, the Gnessins College of Moscow, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Lusitanian festival ‘Sete sòis Sete luas’, the Musikhochschule of Mannheim.
He completed his musical studies graduating with honours in modern literature at the University of Parma and gaining (as a student of Maria Caraci Vela) the PhD in Musical philology at the Facoltà di Musicologia of Cremona.
He has published, among other things, the book ‘Fräulein Klarinette’. La genesi e il testo delle opere per clarinetto di J. Brahms [‘Fräulein Klarinette’. The genesis and the text of J. Brahms’s clarinet works] published by ETS (Pisa 2006) as well as and the Urtext edition of the Quintet for clarinet and strings by Brahms for the Henle Verlag, Munich.
He is dedicated to training and education in the fields of music and performing arts — in particular as coordinator and teacher at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala — and has held seminars-concerts and master classes in the USA, Russia and in many Italian universities and music academies.
