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Bio

Harpist🎶✨Composer🦋
She graduated in harp at the Superior High Conservatory "A. Casella" in L'Aquila with full marks and honours in Harp solo performance with marks and honours in musical interpretation. She perfects her musical studies with Fabrice Pierre, Anna Loro, E. Fontane Binoche, Judith Líber, Marie-Pierre Langlamet and Frederique Cambreling, her principal teacher. In 2005 she won a scholarship to study in Spain at the Superior Conservatory of Music of the Basque Country "Musikene" in the Basque Country and obtain another Superior degree. In 2006 she won a scholarship to the Orchestral Academy of “Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” in Florence, under the direction of Maestro Zubin Mehta;  In 2011 to the “Lucern Festival Academy” in Lucerne (Swuitzerland), specialising in the contemporary harp and orchestral repertoire under the guidance of Frederique Cambreling and Pierre Boulez. During his professional career, she constantly collaborates with renowned orchestras such as the Syrian Symphony Orchestra, the Officina Musicale Italiana, the Pescara Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oviedo, the Zahir Contemporary Music Ensemble of Seville, the Basque Country Symphony Orchestra ( Euskadiko Orkestra), the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias, the Orchestra of Pau Pays de Bearne, the Orchestra Regionale Camerata Strumentale di Prato in Italy, Umbria Jazz Festival and Festival for projects of recovery-performance of Gil Evans' scores, works closely with Gil Goldstein, Gregory Porter and Quincy Jones; the German orchestra Das neue Orchester of Cologne, the Orchestra of the “Marinsky Theatre” in St. Petersburg under the conductor Valery Gergiev, and Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris under the conducting of Pierre Boulez . in 2020 she record the most important pieces of Basque composer M. Ravel for the Ondine label with the Euskadiko Orkestra, an orchestra with which has been working constantly since 2008. She made recordings of soundtracks for contemporary Spanish cinema by the composer Fernando Velazquez (Goya Prize 2017), as a Harp Soloist and in chamber /orchestral ensemble for Radio Rai3, Equilibrium Music, Elkar, Claves, Orpheus, Naxos, Deutch Grammophon, Ibs classical, Ondine. Since 2014 she has been composing pieces for solo harp, harp duo, transcribing and composing original works.
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