Biografie
She began her composition studies at the Conservatoire “Guido Cantelli” in Novara (Italy) with Marco Lasagna, Massimo Bertola and Emanuela Ballio. In 2023 she achieved the Master's degree in Composition with the maximum marking of 110/110 cum laude.
From the autumn 2023 she attends the Postgraduate course of Composition at the International Academy of Imola “Incontri col Maestro” with Marco Di Bari. In the meantime, she studies at ZHdK with Isabel Mundry (CAS in Composition).
In June 2023 she was part of the ManiFeste Academy at IRCAM. She attended the masterclasses for composers held by Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Prokofiev, Fabio Vacchi, Alda Caiello, Paolo Vivaldi, Nadir Vassena and Alessandro Solbiati.
On February 2022 she has been selected for the finals of the International Composition Competition “Musica per archi 2022” - 6th Edition in Lviv (Ukraine).
Her works have been performed in several festivals institutions such as the “Academy Concerts 2024 – XX edition” at the International Academy of Imola, the "Brescia Music Festival 2022", the “Contemporary Music Week 2021”, the “Contemporary Autumn 2022” and the “Contemporary Itineraries 2023” at the Conservatoire “Guido Cantelli” and the Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona (Italy).
She is also a violinist. From 2019 to 2021 she attended the Violin Academic Course with Oleksandr Semchuk and Ksenia Milas at the Imola International Academy (Italy). She achieved the Violin Master degree in 2017 again at the Conservatoire “Guido Cantelli”, and in the same years she has studied with great violinists such us Lindita Hoxha (co-concertmaster of second violins in Würzburger Symphoniker from 2002 to 2003), Roberto Ranfaldi (concertmaster of RAI National Symphonic Orchestra) and Francesco Manara (concertmaster of Filarmonica della Scala Orchestra). In 2020 she achieved at the Perosi Academy in Biella (Italy) the Post-graduate Diploma of Advanced Studies in Musical Performance with Roberto Ranfaldi.
She attended masterclasses for solo violin held by Francesca Monego, Salvatore Quaranta, Amiram Ganz, Shirly Laub, Oliver Kipp, Sonja Van Beek, Klaidi Sahatçi, Ermir Abeshi and Kostadin Bogdanosk. She took part in masterclass of chamber music with Alan Brind, Enrico Bronzi, Marco Decimo and the section leaders of the Mantua Chamber Orchestra.
She ranked second at the XXXIV International Music Competition for Young People “Città di Stresa”.
She is part of several orchestras including the Carlo Coccia Symphony Orchestra, Coccia Theatre Orchestra of Novara and Du.Ca. Orchestra of Busto Arsizio (Italy) directed by Davide Bontempo.
She collaborated with Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Parma's Musicians, Goldoni Theatre Orchestra of Livorno, Perosi Ensemble (Biella), ClassicaViva Orchestra (Milan) and Milan Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Daniele Giorgi, Gianna Fratta, Piotr Nikiforoff, Eric Lederhandler and Alessandro Maria Carnelli.
In 2018 she has joined the Young in Symphony Orchestra (Trento, Italy) directed by Giancarlo Guarino and the last year the Norddeutsche Orchesterakademie for the orchestral project “Der Ring in Berlin” directed by Kiril Stankow. She has been admitted at the Berlin Opera Academy Orchestra for the Opernfest 2021 and 2022.
From 2015 she regularly attends the opera season at the Coccia Theatre in Novara where she played operas by Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini.
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