Alberto Giordano
Official Expert for the Court of Law and the Chamber of Commerce of Genova.
Assistant Curator of the Guarneri del Gesù 1743 ‘Il Cannone’ owned by Niccolò Paganini
Curator of the collection of the Conservatoir of Music ‘Niccolò Paganini’ of Genova
Graduated in Cremona in 1984 under the direction of V.Bissolotti, W. Zambelli and Stefano Conia, he attended Sesto Rocchi's laboratory; later he continues his apprenticeship in the workshop of Joe Curtin and Gregg Alf.
Estabilished in Genoa in 1987, Alberto colaborates since 1994 to the preservation of the 'Cannone', the famous violin of Guarneri del Gesù owned by Niccolò Paganini, property of the City of Genoa.
In 2004 together with Bruce Carlson and Pio Montanari, he attend the violin of Paganini's refurbishment also called the ‘Historical Recover’ The work is the result of Alberto's intense researches in civic and private genoese archives and the result of the in depth analysis of the technical and organological features of the violin of Paganini (see Strad October 2004).
Member in juries of violin making competitions, a studier and researcher of the italian violinmaking, Alberto has scored a number of articles, essays, books; he was invited as a speaker in lectures in China, United Kingdom, France, Norway.
Alberto is a contributor of ‘The Strad’ magazine.
He has recently collaborated with the check coreographer Jiri Kylian for the opening of the new Norwegian Opera and Ballet Theatre in Oslo creating and making a serie of musical instruments for the opening ballet show "Worlds Beyond". 