The Managing Director of the Alexander and Buono Festival of Music, Mattia Ometto came to the attention of the European musical public a decade ago with an astonishing debut recital in Venice which quickly established him as an artist whose gifts hark back to the Golden Age of classical piano performance. With a mastery that is formed in equal parts by the inspiration of his Venetian background, his studies in Paris with the legendary Aldo Ciccolini, and in America with the late Earl Wild, he continues to astonish audiences and virtuosi alike with his talent.

Mr. Ometto has performed extensively in Italy with Milan's Società dei Concerti, Festival Pianistico Internazionale in Rimini, Associazione Dino Ciani and Associazione Veneta "Amici della Musica." In Venice, he has appeared at the Gran Teatro la Fenice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, in Milan at Palazzo Cusani and Sala Puccini, in Rome at the Teatro Marcello and Villa Torlonia, and in Turin at Politecnico.

As a winner of the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, Mr. Ometto performs regularly in Europe and the United States. During the 2008-2009 season, he appeared in recitals in Paris at the Théatre du Rond Point des Champs Elysées, in New York City at Carnegie Hall as part of the Second Annual ABC Gala, and in California at Redlands University. The 2009-2010 season saw him in performance both in recital as a soloist and with orchestra as part of a North American tour.

Born in Padua in 1982, Mattia Ometto graduated summa cum laude from the Venice Conservatory of Music where he studied for ten years with Anna Barutti, a pupil of Wilhelm Kempff. Very active also as a teacher, he gives master classes at the Accademia Filarmonica di Camposampiero and as a visiting artist at universities and conservatories in the United States. Earlier this year he was appointed Managing Director of the Alexander & Buono Festival of Music and is Artistic Director of the "Guido Alberto Fano" International Piano Competition in Padova.