Born in Verona in 1988, Alberto Azzolini began studying tuba at the age of ten through the courses organized by the Municipal Band School of Dolcè (VR). He was later admitted to the “E.F. Dall’Abaco” Conservatory in Verona, where he graduated in 2011 with highest honors under the guidance of Maestro Giovanni Gatti.

During the same years, he attended advanced masterclasses for low brass at the School of Music of Fiesole (FI), led by Robert Tucci and David LeClair. He completed his studies in Verona with a solo concert accompanied by the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona, alongside other outstanding students awarded by the Dall’Abaco Conservatory.

In 2011 he was admitted to the Hochschule für Musik Basel (Switzerland), where he completed a two-year specialization program in tuba (Master of Music Performance) under the guidance of Professor and orchestral musician David LeClair, graduating in the winter of 2013. After obtaining his scientific high school diploma, he attended courses and masterclasses with distinguished musicians such as Roger Bobo, Gene Pokorny, Robert Tucci, Alessandro Fossi, Mario Barsotti, Stefano Ammannati, Steven Mead, Michael Pircher, Rex Martin, Roland Szentpàli, Øystein Baadsvik, Hidehiro Fujita, and Gianluca Grosso.

Since completing his studies, he has received numerous awards and eligibility recognitions from major Italian opera-symphonic foundations and has worked as a freelance musician in Italy and abroad. He has collaborated with leading institutions including the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Teatro Regio di Torino, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Turin, Teatro Regio di Parma, Arena di Verona, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, and the London Symphony Orchestra.

He has performed under the baton of conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, MyungWhun Chung, Sir Antonio Pappano, Michael Tilson Thomas, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Noseda, Yuri Temirkanov, Juraj Valčuha, among others. He has also been active in chamber music since 2014 as tubist of BrassOperà – brass quintet, Venice – and since 2023 as a member of ITQ – Italian Tuba Quartet.

Since autumn 2017, he has been Principal Tuba of the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice in Venice.