Born in 1977, still very young Andrea Bacchetti he collected the advice of Karajan, Magaloff, Berio, Horszowski, Siciliani. He made his debut at the age of 11 in Milan in the Sala Verdi with the Solisti Veneti conducted by C. Scimone.
Since then he has played several times in international festivals – Lucerne, Salzburg, Belgrade, Santander, Toulouse (Piano aux Jacobins), Lugano, Sapporo, Brescia and Bergamo, Bologna, La Roque d'Anteron (Radio France), Milan (MI.TO) , La Coruña (Mozart Festival), Brussels (Hulencourt Festival) Pesaro, Cervo, St. Petersburg (Palaces Festival), Bellinzona, Ravenna, Ravello, Santiago de Compostela (Piano A. Brage cycle), Warsaw (Beethoven Festival), Paris ( La Serre d'Auteil), Bad Worishofen, Spoleto, Husum, Murten Classics, Guatemala City (Bravissimo Festival) – and in prestigious musical centers – Konzerthaus (Berlin); Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau piano cycle 4 (Paris); Rudolfinum Dvorak Hall (Prague); Coliseo Theater (Buenos Aires); Rachmaninoff Saal for the Moscow State Philharmonic Society (Moscow); Arts Center, Kuhmo and Lotte Concert Hall (Seoul); Auditorium Nacional de España (Scherzo cycle and CNDM), Teatro Real, Fundación March (Madrid); Fundação Gulbenkian (Lisbon); Hamarikyu Asahi Hall, Toppan Hall and Musashino Concert Hall, Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo); De Warande (Antwerp); Philharmonic Society (Lima); Mozarteum Brasileiro and Artistic Culture (São Paulo); Parco della Musica (Rome); Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern); House of Music (Quito); Gewandthaus (Leipzig).
In Italy Andrea Bacchetti is a guest of the major orchestras and opera houses, and of all the most important concert associations. Abroad he has worked with numerous orchestras – Lucerne Festival Strings, Camerata Salzburg and Salzburg Chamber Soloists, RTVE Madrid, Sinfónica de Asturia, Oviedo, OSCYL, Valladolid; ORF, Vienna, MDR Leipzig, Kyoto Simphony Orchestra, Sinfonica di Tenerife, SWKO Pforzheim, Filarmonica della Scala, OSI Lugano, Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, RTL Ljubljana, Cappella Istropolitana, Bratislava, Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Philarmonique de Nice et de Cannes, Prague Chamber Orchestra, ORF Vienna, Philharmonie der Nationen, Hamburg, Enesco Philarmonic of Bucharest, and with conductors such as Bellugi, Guidarini, Venzago, Luisi, Zedda, Manacorda, Panni, Petitgirard, Burybayev, Pehlivanian, Grazioli , Sanguineti, Toyama, Urbansky, Gullberg Jensen, Nanut, Lü-Ja, Justus Frantz, Baungartner, Valdes, Renes, Goldstein, Bender, Bisanti, Ceccato – just to name a few.
He records for Sony Classical and among his extensive discography we must mention the SACD with the Cherubini sonatas (Penguin Guide UK Rosette 2010) and “The Scarlatti Restored Manuscript” (RCA Red Seal) imgwinner of the ICMA 2014 in the “Baroque Instrumental” category . Bach's “Inventions and Symphonies” (CD of the month, September 2009, “BBC Music Magazine”), “The Italian Bach” (CD of the month, May 2014, “Record Geijutsu”) and “Keyboard Concertos BWV 1052 – 1058” with the RAI National Orchestra (CD of the month, May 2016 “Musica”).
He is passionately dedicated to chamber music; fruitful collaborations with partners such as Rocco Filippini, Prazak Quartet, Maxence Larrieu, String Quartet and Instrumentalists of La Scala, Quartet of Cremona, Quatour Ysaye, Stradivari Sextet of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonella Ruggiero. Composers such as Vacchi, Boccadoro, Del Corno - among others - have dedicated songs to him.
In recent seasons he has given concerts in Japan, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Korea, Switzerland, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Russia. In 2022 Andrea Banchetti played, as well as throughout Italy, in various European countries, in Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay and on a tour in South Africa.
