Adriano Spampanato

TCS Collaborative Pianist

Adriano Spampanato

Collaborative Pianist

French-Italian musician, Adriano Spampanato is a recent graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist program with the Washington National Opera (2021-2023). Eager to explore every trend, his repertoire covers music from the 16th century to the present day. He has performed all over Europe, as well as in the USA, Canada, Russia, Japan, and India, in music venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Paris Philharmonic… He pursued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, earning four Bachelor’s degrees (piano, organ, choreographic accompanying, and musicology) and a Master’s degree with academic honors in collaborative piano.

He won the Special prize of the Art Assembly/Tavricheskaya chapel for the best rendition of baroque music at Tariverdiev’s Organ Competition (Russia). Alongside Axelle Fanyo, soprano, they won the Grand Prix Prince Rainier III of Monaco prize for singer-pianist duos at the 11th Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Voice-Piano Competition. They made a recording of Duparc’s songs, which is available on audio streaming platforms. Adriano was granted several prestigious awards and prizes: a Fulbright scholarship, the Drouet-Bourgeois piano prize from The Fondation de France and the Zellidja Scholarship from the Académie Française.

In NYC, Adriano worked as a pianist-organist at United Methodist Christ Church, Park Ave. He currently serves as the assistant director of music-organist at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Alexandria, VA.

In developing his career as a conductor, he worked as a cover conductor at Opera Saratoga (Saratoga Springs, NY), as an assistant conductor at the Washington National Opera and Opera North (Lebanon, NH). Lately, he conducted Mozart’s Lucio Silla and Haendel’s Silla at Chicago Summer Opera, where he will return in the summer of 2023 for Haendel’s Agrippina.