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. For more information, visit alexeiaceto.com.