Sandro De Palma was born in Naples, where he began his musical education with Massimo Bertucci and Vincenzo Vitale. He was then invited by Nikita Magaloff to attend the Conservatoire in Geneva. At the age of 19, he won First Prize at the Alfredo Casella International Piano Competition. Two years later, he won the Bruce Hungerford Foundation First Prize in New York, which led to his American recital début at the Carnegie Hall. He also won prizes at the Clara Haskil Competition in Montreaux and the Dino Ciani Competition in Milan. In 1993, he took a pause from his engagements to study in London with Alice Kezeradze-Pogorelich. Sandro De Palma has played concerts in every European country, in the former Soviet Union and, recently, in Japan. In his native Italy, he continues to play regularly with major orchestras including La Fenice, Rome, Milan and Naples Radio Orchestras; also with the San Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Monterrey Symphony Orchestra. He also plays chamber music in duo with violinists Boris Belkin, Pierre Hommage and Ilya Grubert, in quartet with the Salzburg Piano Quartet, and with winds and strings of the Berliner Philarmoniker. Sandro De Palma participated in the world's first recording for Fonit Cetra of Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum - a recording which won the 20th Italian Critics Award. He is currently Artistic Director of Maggio della Musica Festival in Naples and President of the Associazione Muzio Clementi in Rome.