ALESSANDRO BERTONI
is a Los Angeles-based keyboardist, session player and producer. He hails from Treviso, Italy, where he took up classical piano at the Conservatory of Castelfranco at an early age, received his diploma there, and moved onto jazz and contemporary music studies.

He then moved to the high energy environment of Los Angeles, where he now lives and works as a performer, session keyboardist, producer and music educator. His musical style is defined by intense instrumental technicality and heavy arrangements blended with improvisational jazz-fusion elements. After completing his studies at Musician’s Institute, his first major project was Aphelion, with whom he released “Franticode” in 2008.

In 2013 he released his debut solo album “Keystone” produced by keyboard guru Derek Sherinian and published by
Generation Prog Records. “Keystone” includes performances by such luminaries as guitarist Brett Garsed, bassist Ric Fierabracci, and drummer Virgil Donati.

Alessandro has recorded and produced keyboards for more than 20 albums by artists all around the world. He is an endorsing artist for Nord Keyboards, Studiologic, Lounsberry Pedals and Intex Cables.

He is the keyboardist for glam/progressive rock guitarist and vocalist Rocky Kramer,
Allied Artists’s signee.

He also frequently performs live with various prog rock, metal, and pop rock bands and artists in the industry as a hired musician.
He recently performed with Ron “Thal” Bumblefoot (ex Guns n Roses), Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake), Prashant Aswani.

He considers himself a guitar-oriented keyboardist, and cites his main influences as Jon Lord, Keith Emerson, Derek Sherinian, Jan Hammer, Jens Johansson, John Medeski, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Allan Holdsworth.