Giovanni Albini

Giovanni Albini (b. 1982) – composer, ukulelist and music theorist – is a tenured professor of Music Theory, Solfège and Music Perception and head of research at the Conservatory “Antonio Vivaldi” of Alessandria, where he also teaches the first Italian ukulele university class, and he teaches Composition at the bachelors of the Conservatory of Lugano (Swiss Confederation).
He has composed several concert music scores as well as many tracks and sound designs for video art, exhibitions, multimedia, commercials, trailers, videogames and television.
He commissions and performs new contemporary classical music written for the ukulele and arrange classical and renowned contemporary and twentieth century scores for it, fostering the development of a new challenging and cultivated ukulele repertoire and aiming to deepen and evolve the idiomatic unique features of the instrument.
He plays in duo with Davide Donelli and Samantha Muir. He is the co-director of the Ukulele International Conference (UIC) – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Performance, Composition, and Organology, hosted by the University of Milan. His album “A contemporary ukulele”, featuring fourteen new scores for ukulele solo, has been published Da Vinci Classics.
Three monographic CDs compiling his most significant chamber, orchestral and sacred scores have been published by Brilliant Classics and distributed worldwide. He is an Aquila Corde Armoniche official endorser.