Welcome to the APMExMEMECO Italy 2026 Conference!
Here you can register and update your Sched profile. A draft schedule will be available May 15th, when you’ll be able to explore sessions and build your agenda.
Questions? Visit our website or email [email protected].
Join us July 14–16 in Sulmona, Italy, as we share voices and shape the future of popular music, identity, and education.
You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.
Alessio Nelli is an Italian pianist, keyboardist and composer. He graduated in piano from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in 2010 and subsequently attended a two-year course in accompaniment at the Giulio Briccialdi Conservatory in Terni. From 2011 to 2012, he studied at Mogol’s C.E.T., a school for songwriters, composers and performers, where he worked as a tutor and teaching assistant from 2013 to 2019. From 2014 to 2018, he worked alongside Maestro Sesto Quatrini in opera productions in Italy and France in the following titles: “La traviata”, “Rigoletto” and “L’elisir d’amore”. He worked at the Festival della Valle D’Itria as accompanist and assistant to Maestro Giuseppe Grazioli in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”. He has performed in numerous concerts in Italy and abroad (France, Germany, Finland, USA, Israel, Australia, UK, Spain, Belgium, etc.). He has toured with Giovanni Caccamo, Angelina Mango and others. He is a member of the Cecilia Guzman Sanchez TRIO. “Down Under” is the title of his first EP, released on all digital platforms and distributed by Ada Music Italy.
He is one of the artistic directors of the ‘Voices of’ project for the Andrea Bocelli Foundation. He lives in Milan and works as a session musician in various recording studios (Il volo, Marco Mengoni, Gianni Morandi, Clara, Francesca Michielin, Angelina Mango, Tiromancino, Patty Pravo, Matteo Bocelli and others). His songs have been streamed millions of times on various platforms and he holds FIMI platinum certification for the single ‘Il cielo contromano’. He has written for Eros Ramazzotti, Tiromancino, Enula, Deddy, Strangis and others. He teaches piano and offers masterclasses and training seminars on songwriting throughout Italy.