Boston-based pianist Alexander Morollo began his training at the age of six under the renowned piano teacher and composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee. After years of performance experience in the classical literature along with contemporary music, Mr. Morollo won the Catherine Dower-Gold Performing Arts Award in 2008 and First Prize in the Young Artists Piano Competition of Western Massachusetts and Connecticut the following year. In 2015, Mr. Morollo was awarded the Mary Ellis Smith Prize for ‘Excellence in the Art of Piano Pedagogy’. He was a 2021 Signature Series Artist with Midori and Friends and in 2023 received the Marilla MacDill Award for ‘Teaching Excellence and Community Service’

An avid teacher, Mr. Morollo is currently on the piano faculty at the South Shore Conservatory, and the Community Music Center of Boston. Throughout his teaching career he has prepared students for proficiency exams in piano and music theory. He continues to do so through the Royal Conservatory of Music. Mr. Morollo holds a Bachelors of Music from Emerson College, and a performance diploma and Master of Music from the Longy School of Music.