Michele Guerrieri completed his Master’s Degree in piano with highest honors at the “G. Rossini” Conservatory in Pesaro under Enrico Belli. In 2023 he graduated, again with highest honors, from the postgraduate Specialization School in Instrumental Musical Heritage for Contemporary Piano at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo in Turin, where he studied with internationally renowned professors including Emanuele Arciuli, Ralph van Raat, Tamara Stefanovich and Nicolas Hodges. In June 2025 he completed his research Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague with Ellen Corver.
He is prizewinner of several piano competitions, including the International Competition “Giulio Rospigliosi,” where he won the absolute first prize in the contemporary music category, a result that will lead to the recording of a solo master disc for EMA Records at the end of 2026. He also won first prize in the contemporary section at the International Competition “Giovani Musicisti – Città di Treviso” and received first prize three times at the European Music Competition “Città di Sirolo,” in both solo and chamber categories.
He also received a Special Mention at the 2025 edition of the contemporary music competition “Reate Festival,” second prize at the 15th International Music Competition “Euterpe” in Corato, and second prize at the National Competition for Young Musicians “Federico Marini” in Falconara.
During his Master’s studies in the Netherlands he took part in numerous projects and concert activities as a soloist and in several chamber formations. In 2024 he performed at the international piano festival “Bartolomeo Cristofori” in Padua with a program including works by composer-in-residence Gabriel Prokofiev and a world premiere created in collaboration with the composers’ association Taverna-Maderna.
At the beginning of 2025 he made a successful debut at Teatro Cortesi in Sirolo with The Cakra Experience. Conceived and directed by Guerrieri, the project grew out of his Master’s research and combines classical and contemporary music with solo piano improvisation, spoken narration and color in an interdisciplinary artistic setting aimed at raising awareness of the energy centers known as chakras. He also developed a concert-workshop on the same theme.
He took part in the project dedicated to the complete performance of György Ligeti’s Études for piano together with six other pianists from Emanuele Arciuli’s class, and in the Schubert-Schoenberg concert series at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo. He performed as pianist of Ensemble Royaal of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and of the Ensemble of the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo, presenting major ensemble works including the second half of Pierre Boulez’s Dérive 2.
He participated in the recording of the complete piano works of the American composer Marga Richter for the label Stradivarius, together with other students of Arciuli’s advanced class, in which he is still enrolled. He has attended masterclasses and lessons as a soloist and in trio formation with composer Lera Auerbach and with Andrea Lucchesini, Denys Prochayev, Larissa Groeneveld, Arisa Fujita and Lucia Swarts, and has also taken part in improvisation courses.
In duo with mezzo-soprano Laetitia Sprij he worked on an extensive Lied repertoire, performing in several Dutch concert series and attending masterclasses with Hanneke de Wit, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren and Amand Hekkers. He was also recently involved, together with other pianists of the Academy, in the revision of contemporary piano pieces for the creation of an unpublished piano anthology in collaboration with the publisher Curci.
In August 2023, at the Bolzano fair, he took part in the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s 11000 Saiten, a work for chamber orchestra and fifty microtonally tuned pianos, and he joined the project again at the end of June 2024 during the Holland Festival in Amsterdam.
In 2021 he collaborated with Andrea Silvestrelli in productions of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle in the reduction for solo piano at Teatro delle Muse in Ancona and in Mondolfo, Jesi, Osimo and Ostra. He has also attended seminars and masterclasses with Alessandra Gentile, Bruno Bizzarri and Pier Narciso Masi, performing in the related final concerts.
In duo with flutist Luca Pellegrini he attended seminars and masterclasses with Marco Zuccarini and Alessandra Gentile and in 2018 won first prize at the European Music Competition “Città di Sirolo.” In concert he has accompanied the choir Corale “L’Incontro” of Torrette, Ancona, and performed in flute and piano duo at the Ridotto of Teatro delle Muse in Ancona for the opening evening of the international congress of the Italian Society of Endoscopic Surgery in September 2019. He has also performed several times as a soloist in the “Itinerari” events organized by Cantieri Musicali Ancona and in other cultural contexts.
He served as piano teacher at the “Vincent Persichetti” Music School in Falconara Marittima during the 2019–2020 biennium, attended the Band Orchestration course held by Luigi Livi at the Rossini Conservatory, and the free chamber music course at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Turin with Antonio Valentino in piano trio formation.
He is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Human Health at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, working on a research project about the impact of piano harmonies on patients affected by acute ischemic stroke.