Since his professional debut in 2017, pianist Alexei Aceto’s recitals have been featured

throughout New York State in concert seasons of the Binghamton Philharmonic

Orchestra, Syracuse’s Civic Morning Musicals, the Chautauqua Institution, and

broadcast to audiences nationwide on NPR’s Performance Today. Alexei has

performance degrees from Ithaca College, where he twice won the IC Concerto

Competition, and Indiana University, where he held the position of Associate Instructor

in Piano. Alexei was finalist at the 2021 Chautauqua Institution Piano Competition and

2024 Sigma Alpha Iota Concerto Competition. An avid chamber music collaborator,

Alexei has worked with artists such as violist Kyle Armbrust, cellist Elizabeth Simkin,

trombonists Evelyn Carlson and Jennifer Wharton, hornist Adam Unsworth, and the

Grammy-winning Sō Percussion. As recipients of the Steinway Series Guest Artist

Award at the 2023 Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Italy, Alexei and violinist Gabriel Art Mendoza performed a program of sonatas for violin and piano at University

of South Florida for its 2023-24 Steinway Series.