Alessandra Celletti (born 6 June 1966) is an Italian pianist, vocalist, songwriter and composer, best known as an interpreter of Erik Satie. Alessandra Celletti comes from a purely classical background, graduating at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and perfecting herself with Vera Gobbi Belcredi. She has played in Italy, France, England, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Spain, United States, Mozambique, Tunisia, India. In 2006 she released the album "Chi mi darà le ali” (Who will give me wings); her repertoire as a performers includes, among others, compositions by Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Baldassarre Galuppi, Leoš Janáček, Gurdjieff / De Hartmann, Scott Joplin, John Cage and Philip Glass. In 2007 she published "The Golden Fly" for the label Kha Records; in 2008 the album "Way Out" for the English label LTM Recordings in which the sounds of the piano blend with the rhythm of the drums and the voice. Celletti has collaborated with the Swedish conceptual artist Paulina Wallenberg Olsson, the saxophonist Nicola Alesini, the percussionist Marcello Piccinini, the poet Beppe Costa, the multi-instrumentalist Luca Venitucci, the double bassist Daniele Ercoli, the violinist Her, the thereminist Maurizio Mansueti, the drummer Charles Hayward, the composer Lawrence Ball, the actor Flavio Bucci, the dancer Gloria Pomardi, the artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò, the artist Ray Caesar, the English composer Mark Tranmer (aka GNAC) with whom she published the album "The Red Pages" and the exponent of contemporary experimental electronic music, Hans Joachim Roedelius with whom, in 2009 for the North American label Transparency, she has composed and recorded the album "Sustanza di cose sperata.

Earlier this year (2009), the Transparency label released a beautiful storybook: "Alessandra Celletti : Paraphernalia". The book looks great and presents a lenghty interview that Massimo Marchini did with Alessandra Celletti. There's also lots of pictures in it and also some fine stories by Alessandra. As a bonus, the book carries a DVD. This DVD carries 13 tracks, or 13 little movies.
Each movie is like a little music clip. All the compositions, except for two, are by Alessandra. The music is performed by Alessandra, and the videos were shot by various video artists.
Beautiful.