Raffaello Moretti is an artist and musician whose musical and intellectual interests span performance, philosophy, literature, theatre and European cultural history.He has performed across Europe, the United States, Mexico and Argentina as a soloist and in collaboration with British dancer Alistair Wroe, with performances including Teatro Ghione in Rome, the Lyceum in Florence, Smith Square Hall in London, Teatro Sociale in Como, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill & Zankel Halls in New York.

After graduating with honours in piano at the age of 17, he continued his training in Milano, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and London, considering the latter two cities his artistic homes. He studied with Aldo Ciccolini and Marie-Françoise Bucquet in Paris and earned two master’s degrees with top marks: first in Barcelona under the guidance of Alicia de Larrocha at the Academia Marshall, then in London with Tatiana Sarkissova at the Royal Academy of Music. Other formative teachers included Alexander Lonquich, Franco Gei, Niel Immelman, Éric Heidsieck and, especially, Galina Eguiazarova.

He also attended masterclasses with Andrzej Jasinski at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Elisso Virsaladze at the Yamaha Foundation in Paris, and Bruno Leonardo Gelber at the Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck. He also completed a four-year programme at the International Piano Foundation Lake Como, chaired by Martha Argerich, studying with William Grant Naboré, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Menahem Pressler, Charles Rosen, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts’ong and Andreas Staier.

A laureate of the Cima Foundation in Tuscany, he has won first prizes in several national and international competitions. Alongside his musical training, Raffaello earned a Master’s degree in philosophy with highest honours from the University of Milan, writing his thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche under Carlo Sini. He also attended lectures by Jacques Derrida at the EHESS in Paris and completed a PhD at King’s College London on Alfred Cortot and late European Romanticism, with Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. His artistic outlook is informed by the aesthetics of Ferruccio Busoni and Walter Pater, while his research interests encompass Classical Greece, the Italian Renaissance, and European thought from Romanticism to the Decadent movement.