For his multifaceted personality and lively imagination, which constantly push him to take new paths, the pianist Giovanni Nesi represents a unicum in the musical panorama. He was born in Florence in 1986, and owes his piano development to Maria Tipo and Andrea Lucchesini.

Considered as one of the most interesting pianists of his generation, he performed for the major concert seasons and the most important festivals in Italy, such as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, Ravello Festival, Società Umanitaria and Società dei Concerti in Milan, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, La Fenice theatre in Venice, Società Aquilana dei Concerti, Amici della Musica di Firenze, being several times a guest of RAI television network.
Among the institutions for which he has performed abroad are the Antalya International Piano Festival, Mozarteum in Salzburg and Yamaha Concert Hall in Vienna, St. Martin's in The Fields and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London, Solis Theater in Montevideo, as well as some of the major music centers of Holland, France, Austria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Great Britain, Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina.

Giovanni Nesi's name is inextricably linked to that of his fellow citizen Domenico Zipoli (1688 - 1726), since in 2014 the pianist performed the first world performance on the modern piano of all the composer's Suites and Partitas. Since 2015 Nesi has been recording for the British label Heritage. The first recording for this house is dedicated to the first recording of this program. The CD has received very warm acclaim from audiences and critics, receiving many enthusiastic reviews in Italy and abroad, and the “Clef du Mois” award from ResMusica (France). To spread the work of Domenico Zipoli, he also carried out an intense concert activity together with the musicologist and journalist of La Repubblica newspaper Gregorio Moppi, with a show entitled "Jesuit of two worlds".

He is currently dealing with focal dystonia, a condition that impairs control of the fingers on his right hand. While undergoing extensive rehabilitation therapy, and waiting to be able to perform with both hands again, he continues to give concerts using only his left hand. He is exploring new repertoires, including pieces written specifically for him, and he is also playing and publishing his own transcriptions.
His album “Bach – Works for Piano Left Hand,” released by Heritage and centered around the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, received unanimous critical acclaim. Recently, another album was released, this time a live recording for the DaVinci Classics label, featuring two world premieres alongside works by Schumann, Scriabin, and other composers.
With the aim of offering hope to those who, like him, are facing a disabling condition, he collaborates with the Fresco Parkinson Institute.

Appreciated for the intensity and originality of his interpretations, Giovanni Nesi has also distinguished himself through various awards in national and international competitions, and the performance and recording of premieres, also dedicated to him. He also received the prestigious "William Walton" Award, assigned by the William Walton Foundation of Ischia and the "R. Serkin ”, awarded every year by the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. For his artistic merits, he received “Il Maggio del Pianoforte” award in Naples.

His discography also includes a CD for Tactus, received with the most favorable acclaim and dedicated to Mario Pilati (1903-1938), with the Bagatelle (World Premiere) and the Suite for Piano and Strings, as well as a DVD made for the Mozarteum of Salzburg, with the Preludes of Chopin, Scriabin and Debussy.

Nesi gives great importance to teaching, which he considers on the same level as the concert experience. He is a piano professor at the “P. Mascagni "in Livorno and he gives masterclasses for important institutions in Italy and abroad. His students have been awarded in numerous piano competitions. He also teaches at the “G. Verdi” Music School in Prato.

He believes in the importance of bringing new audiences closer to the world of Classical Music and he actively engages in popular projects and lectures, he publishes articles and he often realizes the artistic direction of Festivals and Concert Seasons. He is the author and conductor of the "MusicaEterna" tv show, for the 7Gold tv station.

His name appears frequently in the national and international specialist and generalist press, and his interviews and recordings are often broadcasted by the main Italian and foreign radio and television stations.

Among the many words that have been spent about him, it is nice to remember those of Dino Villatico in La Repubblica, which well describe Nesi's pianism: "the intensity of a piano gesture that aspires to singing. But lightly. [...] It arouses intellectual pleasure and admiration at the same time."