XVI Chopin International Piano Competition
Hartford, CT

She is considered by international critics as one of the most eminent representatives of Italian concert music. She trained in the great schools of B. Seidlhofer, A. Cortot and C. Zecchi, she graduated with full marks, honors and special mention at the “G. Verdi ”in Milan and at the Academies of Salzburg and Vienna. For years he has carried out an intense career with great success which has resulted in more than three thousand concerts in over eighty countries, both as a soloist and as a member of important chamber ensembles, on behalf of the major concert organizations (Piccola Scala of Milan, Wigmore Hall of London, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, Chapelle du Bon Pasteur in Montreal, Accademia di S. Cecilia, Petruzzelli theaters in Bari, Bellini in Catania and Colon in Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Enescu in Bucharest, Symphony of Cape Town and many others) and television radios and with the most prestigious orchestras (Accademia S. Cecilia in Rome, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, RAI in Turin, Scarlatti in Naples, Radio-Television Francaise, Kammerorchester in Hamburg, RIAS in Berlin, Teatro Verdi of Trieste, Symphony of Tel Aviv, Municipal Theater of Genoa, S. Carlo of Naples, Sicilian Symphony, Taipei
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau, Symphonic Instambul and Brisbane and many others); she performed under the direction of famous conductors. Former teacher of principal piano atthe S. Cecilia State Conservatory of Music in Rome, from 1988 to 2004, she was director of the L. D'Annunzio State Conservatory of Music in Pescara, she also held seminars and advanced courses in Paris, at the 'Ècole Normale de Musìque A. Cortot before and later at the Schola Cantorum. Confirming her position in the world, she has been awarded several international prizes, including the Sagittario d'Oro, the Adelaide Ristori, the Cimento d'Oro of Art and Culture, the Palestrina, Europe, the Progetto Donna, the
Francavilla, the Minerva, the Cimarosa, the Capitoline Oscar, the Sorrento Classica and, for its very high artistic and humanitarian merits, has also received the Lions d'Oro award and the Paul Harris three rubies from Rotary International and the A life for the musical instrument prize, conferred on her by DISMA at the Bocconi University of Milan. In 1993 she was appointed Emeritus Professor at Sakuyo College in Tsuyama, Japan.

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She is the founder and president of E.P.T.A. - Italy (Italian Association of Piano Teachers) of which she was also, for the years 1995-96 and 2003-2004, European president and is the founder and president of the "Fryderyk Chopin" Association, which organizes concerts, international high-level courses and the “Roma” International Piano Competition, with the patronage, among others, of the Italian National Commission for Unesco.

The President of the Republic conferred on her, in 1999 the honor of Cavaliere al Merito of the Italian
Republic, in 2003 the Gold Medal and the First Class Diploma, reserved for the Merit of the School, of the
Culture and of the Art and, in the 2007, the honor of Commander of the Republic. You have received from
the Sovereign Order of Malta the Cross with Crown of Merit of Melitense (2014). In 2020 she was awarded the Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2021 she joined the Board of the IFCS (International Federation of Chopin Societies)

Recently, in May 2024 he received the “Cataldo Bancheri” music award for lifetime achievement from the
Rotary Club of Rome Tevere.