09 April 2024
The Artea Piano Quartet performs a concert for REFORC2024 conference participants. The concert is to be held May 14 at the Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca in Palermo.
Artea Piano Quartet is a project born in 2021 from the desire of four young female musicians to explore a complex and highly meaningful repertoire, with its string trio in constant dialogue with the piano. The group’s name symbolises the ever-changing character of music, which changes form and languages with the passage of time, yet without losing its superb beauty. The Quartet has several concert performances to its credit, with a repertoire covering the most significant chamber music literature for piano and strings.
In 2006, she obtained her Diploma in Violin at the Conservatorio “Alessandro Scarlatti” in Palermo with top marks. She subsequently participated in the international courses of the Accademia Chigiana (Siena), in the class of maestro G. Carmignola, and in Portogruaro (Venice) in the class of maestro P. Vernikov. In 2013-14, she continued her studies at the Hulencourt Academy in Brussels, where she attended the annual course of soloist Guy Braunstein (formerly a concertmaster in the Berliner Philharmoniker). Until 2016, she continued her studies under the guidance of famous soloist Boris Belkin, and eventually obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Conservatorium of Maastricht (The Netherlands). Between 2014 and 2020, she played as “Violin Tutti” in several orchestras in Belgium and The Netherlands, such as the Hulencourt Soloist Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Antwerp, and the Philharmonie Zuidnederland in Maastricht; she also collaborated with the Opera House “Carlo Felice” (Genoa) as Leader of the Second Violins section. Since 2020, she plays as “Violin Tutti” in the “Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana” in Palermo.
In 2014, she obtained the Second-Level Academic Degree in Viola with honours at the Conservatorio di Musica “Santa Cecilia” in Rome, under the guidance of maestro L. Sanzò. She perfected under the guidance of maestro B. Giuranna, M. Da Silva and the maestros of the Cremona Quartet. She is a founding member of the Quartetto Sincronie, with which she recorded S. Cappelletto’s tempo for the Italian state television channel Rai 5, in the framework of the TV programme Inventare. She has performed, as a chamber musician, in numerous Italian and international halls. She teaches viola at the Liceo Musicale “Regina Margherita” in Palermo.
She graduated with honours from the Conservatorio “Vincenzo Bellini” in Palermo; she subsequently specialized at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “Orazio Vecchi” in Modena, and eventually obtained her qualification to teach cello at the Conservatorio di Musica “Santa Cecilia” in Rome, where she also worked with maestros F. Strano and Kyung Mi Lee. She collaborated as first cello with the MG INC Youth Orchestra of Parma, and later in opera and symphonic productions with several Italian orchestras. She teaches cello at the Liceo Musicale “Regina Margherita” in Palermo.
She graduated with full honours from the Sarajevo Academy of Music, where she also obtained her specialisation diploma in 2018 under the guidance of maestro D. Opancic. In 2019, she obtained her Piano Performance specialisation diploma at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona under the guidance of maestro A. Ventura. In 2017, she was awarded a Ceepus scholarship in Wrocław, Poland, where she studied with maestro G. Kurzynski. She has been awarded prizes in numerous international piano competitions. She currently teaches piano at the Casa della Musica di San Giuseppe Jato, Palermo.
You can find the concert programme here.
