"By his nature Sergio Marchegiani is a thinking mind on the piano.[...] He communicated a melancholy which he then exalted with extraordinary ability and extreme caution [...]".

Wolfgang Schultz wrote this in the Berliner Morgenpost after a concert Marchegiani gave in Berlin at the prestigious Meistersaal at Potsdamer Platz in 1999. Since this successful debut, Marchegiani has returned to Berlin twice to play at the "KammerMusikFestival am Gendarmenmarkt" in 2000 and 2001.

Sergio Marchegiani was born in Alessandria, Italy. He began his piano studies at the age of six and performed his first solo recital when he was 10. In 1990 he graduated brilliantly from the A. Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria after studying with Giuseppe Binasco (who trained under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Alfred Cortot). He subsequently improved his skills in Milan, studying with Ilonka Deckers Küszler, a great Hungarian piano teacher descending directly from the Franz Liszt pianistic school (she also trained such musicians as A. Lonquich, Enrica Cavallo and Annie Fischer) and with the Polish pianist Marian Mika (of the Paderewsky pianistic school) to whom he particularly worked on Chopin music. He also taken part in master classes with Alexander Lonquich and Bruno Canino.

After winning several prizes in national and international piano competitions, Marchegiani began an intense series of concerts in the most important Italian cities (Turin, Milan, Genova, Trieste, Bergamo, Bologna, Ferrara, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Catania, etc.), playing in prestigious theatres and concert halls such as Auditorium G. Verdi in Turin, Teatro Bibiena in Mantova, Sala Puccini in Milan, Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia, Teatro Nuovo in Naples, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and Villa Rufolo in Ravello.

He has toured all over the world (Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Croatia, Spain, France, England, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Russia, United States, Mexico, Singapore and Australia) performing in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, Prague, Nancy, Oslo, Moscow, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Mexico City, Singapore, Adelaide, etc. In 2001 he played in New York at the United Nations; recently he returned there to make his debut at the prestigious Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium.

Marchegiani has played as a soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Teatro Lirico Sinfonietta in Cagliari, the Camerata del Prado, the Grosseto Symphonic Orchestra, the Torino Philharmonic Orchestra, the Guido Cantelli Symphonic Orchestra in Milan and the United Europe Chamber Orchestra.

He has recorded for the Italian national radio station Rai3, the Russian cultural channel TVC and the Italian label Dynamic.

Also a keen chamber musician, Sergio Marchegiani has performed with such renowned musicians as the Moscow Soloists Quartet, violinist Mikhail Bereznitskij, violists Anton Jaroshenko and Adrian Pinzaru, and with the Bochmann Quartet.

For several years he has worked with the Italian composer Alberto Colla, becoming his main piano performer and earning flattering reviews: "Sergio Marchegiani proved to be an extraordinary performer of Colla's music, impeccable in his technique, in his interpretive style and in his warm, chiselled sound." (Alberto Cima in La Provincia).

He is in frequent demand for master classes, lectures and piano competition adjudication in Italy and abroad.