Dean of Italian conductors, he was Artistic Director of the Paganini Prize from 1976 to 1987. A distinguished Genoese musician, Alberto Erede established himself as a conductor at a very young age.

Born in Genoa on November 8, 1908, after studying cello, piano and composition he had perfected his skills in Austria and Germany. In his early thirties he was Artistic Director at the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa. Stable director of the Glyndebourne Opera, the Cambridge Theater, in New York and Düsseldorf.

After an interlude in the immediate postwar period in Turin, heading the RAI symphony orchestra in 1945 and 1946, where he took up the legacy of another Genoese, Armando La Rosa Parodi, his activity as conductor, in the operatic and symphonic genres, took him to operate in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The first Italian, after Toscanini, to conduct Wagner at the Bayrueth Theater in 1966, his "Lohengrin" is remembered in the Wagnerian Theater Museum.

Appreciated for his interpretations of Mozart's plays, he was one of the few Italian conductors of his time invited to London and Vienna for the Mozart repertoire. In 1976, when Luigi Cortese died, he succeeded him in the artistic leadership of the Paganini Prize, collaborating with then-President Lazzaro Maria De Bernardis in the growth of the Competition. He was music director of the Dusseldorf Opera House. In 1998 he returned to Genoa as guest of honor of the Paganini Competition. Awarded the "Grifo d'oro" by the City of Genoa, the international music world celebrated him in 1998 in Vienna on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

He was awarded the "Grifo d'oro" by the City of Genoa.

He passed away on April 12, 2001, at his residence in Monte Carlo.