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Anthony D'Alessandro - jazz pianist

Join award winning Toronto based jazz pianist Anthony D'Alessandro on the Ottawa stop of his 'City Lights' album release tour for a night of solo jazz piano. Fresh off a performance at the 2025 Honens International Piano Festival and celebrating the release of his upcoming album 'City Lights', the program will include original songs from the album along with stories and insight from the composer himself, as well as works by Oscar Peterson, George Gershwin, James P. Johnson and more.

featuring
Anthony D'Alessandro - piano
Doors @ 7PM
Concert @ 7:30PM

Anthony D’Alessandro is a pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader based in Toronto, Canada. Hailed by the WholeNote Magazine as a pianist with a “natural feeling for swing and groove” and “scintillating technique”, he has performed in many notable clubs, concert halls and jazz festivals around the world including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Teatro Nescafé de las Artes in Santiago Chile, Birdland Jazz Club and Smalls Jazz Club in New York City, and Koerner Hall in Toronto. He tours internationally as a bandleader including performances across Canada, the United States, South America, and Europe. He regularly performs alongside a “who’s who” of the industry’s top jazz musicians including international artists such as Benny Benack III, Joe Farnsworth, and Summer Camargo as well as fellow Canadians Caity Gyorgy, Neil Swainson, Pat LaBarbara, and Ernesto Cervini.

D'Alessandro’s debut full length album Searchin’ (2024), featuring NYC based trumpeter and vocal star Benny Benack III, debuted to critical acclaim, being called an “uplifting and feel-good jazz record” by the Paris Move, and a “gem of an album” by Jersey Jazz Magazine. His composition Tune for Monty was selected for CBC Music’s prestigious “Songs You Need to Hear” list in May 2024. His sophomore album City Lights releases in October 2025.

D’Alessandro has toured and recorded with three-time JUNO award winning vocalist Caity Gyorgy, having played piano on her most recent 2025 JUNO winning album “Hello, How Are You?”