Biography
She studied music in Italy, United States and Canada, with Lisetta Rossi, Alice Giles, Judy Loman, Alice Chalifoux. She won prizes, in Italy and abroad, at 16 music competitions. She performed extensively in Europe, North and South America, Asia in concert halls and festivals: Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall (New York), United Nations Palace (New York), Klang-Bogen (Vienna), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Konzerthaus (Belin), Sala Verdi (Milan), Teatro Valle (Rome), Matsuo Hall (Tokyo), Prefectural Hall Alti (Kyoto), Teatro Municipal de Lima (Peru), Salle Varese (Lyon), Gasteig (Munich), Hypo-Kunsthalle (Munich), Concerts de la Croix Rouge (Geneva), Theatre Bellevue (Amsterdam), Gessler Hall (Vancouver), CBC - Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto), Teatro Bibiena (Mantova), Emilia Romagna Festival, Festival Pontino, Lamspringer September, and Rosegart Stiftung (Lucerne).
She plays pedal harp (also electro and Celtic harp) as well as historical instruments (single and double action pedal harp). Several composers dedicated to her music. Among them: Peter Machajdík, David Clark Little, Dimitri Nicolau, Paolo Castaldi, Gianluca Cangemi, Jean Chatillon, Louis Berenguer, Nicola Campogrande, Claudia Montero, Gianluca Podio.
She wrote musicological articles related to harp and harpists. Her main book, entitled Elias Parish Alvars, Life, Music, Documents published in 1999, received the Harpa Award (Prague 1999) in recognition. She edited 18th and 19th century harp music, bringing back to public several forgotten composers (such as Sophia Dussek) and refreshing harp repertoire. She directs the Amadeus Arte sheet music edition.
She is the author of shows uniting music and acting. Among them: Mystery Tales (for actor, harp and string quartet, dedicated to the relation among fantasy and horror literature and music) and Travel to the Moon (for actor, harp and planetarium - presented regularly at Milan's Planetarium) - freely inspired from Cosmicomiche by Italo Calvino. From June 2007 she plays live in Ottavia Piccolo's monologue Donna non rieducabile. The show, based on a text by Stefano Massini, remember journalist Anna Politkovskaya. the show was transformed in 2009 by Felice Cappa into a movie produced by RAI TV with the title "Il sangue, la neve" (The blood, the Snow). Published by PromoMusic in DVD, the movie was presented at 66th Venice Film Festival.
Since 2006 she is the artistic director of Lake Como Festival.
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