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Curriculum teachers
Stefania Maio. After graduating in piano with top marks at the Conservatory of Vibo Valentia, she studied composition and attended choral conducting courses held at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. She founded and directed a children's choir for several years. She attended advanced piano training courses and performed as a soloist and in chamber groups in various halls in Italy and abroad.
Having moved to Turin, after attending the Suzuki cello and violin courses held by Antonio Mosca and Lee Robert with her children, she began her training as a teacher, first obtaining the CML qualification with Elena Enrico, then four Suzuki piano levels with the pianist and concert pianist Lola Tavor and finally the fifth level in Cambridge under the guidance of Jenny Macmillan.
He taught for 14 years at the Suzuki Talent Center Academy in Turin where he collaborated in the realization of various concerts in important halls of the city (Auditorium Rai, Lingotto, Teatro Regio, Conservatory…), at the “Parco della musica” in Rome etc.
She taught at the "14th Suzuki Method World Convention" held in Turin in 2006 and at the 2nd Suzuki National Convention in Cuneo in 2016. She was also recently identified as an active teacher at the 11th European Suzuki Children's Convention held in Cuneo in July 2022.
His students have won several piano competitions, also ranking overall winners in their categories, and have performed on RAI television programs such as “Il Gran concerto” and “Melevisione”.
For several years she has organized musical events, collaborating with charities, and piano marathons such as “Pianofortissimo”. She is a piano teacher at the music department of the IC P. Gobetti in Rivoli and holds the position of President and director of education at Musicalcentro Suzuki Talent Education.
Fulvia Corazza. She began her studies with Prof. Lee Robert at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Turin, then graduating in viola at the “A. Vivaldi” Conservatory in Alessandria under the guidance of Prof. Bruno Boano. Her teaching activity began in 1985 at the Suzuki Talent Centre school in Turin, where she worked for twelve years. Since 2014 she has been a Fully qualified Suzuki Viola Teacher, having achieved the 5th level at the Danish Suzuki Forbound in Copenhagen under the guidance of Ilona Télmanji. She has been a violin and viola teacher since 2011 at the Gallarate International Workshop. She was the Viola referent for the Congress of the Italian Suzuki Schools held in Cuneo in November 2016, in the celebrations in Barcelona for the 20 years of the Method in Spain in July 2016, in the Graduation Course and Concert organized by the Italian Suzuki Institute in 2015 at the Teatro Alfieri in Asti and in the International Workshop organized by the CesMI Association of Viterbo in December 2017. She actively collaborates with the courses of “Con Calore Viola Academy” in Antwerp (BG) and was a guest teacher of the Finnish Suzuki Association Workshop in Turku (Finland). From 1991 to 1997 she worked at the CDM school in Milan and from 1997 to 1999 at the Hinhead Music Centre (Surrey, UK). Since 1999 she has been a violin and viola teacher at the Fondazione Istituto Musicale “MI Viglino” in Aosta where she has been conducting the orchestra and teaching chamber music for several years. She is the artistic director of Musicalcentro Suzuki Talent Education.
Lucilla Brasola took her first steps in the world of music at the age of seven, playing the piano and then the viola, graduating in 2013 at the A. Pedrollo Conservatory (Vicenza) with D. Zaltron. She studied for two years at the A. Bruckner Privatuniversität (Austria) with P. Katanic and attended the Masterclasses and courses of Maestro B. Giuranna at the Paolo Grassi Foundation (winner of a study prize), the Chigiana Academy of Siena and the W. Stauffer Academy of Cremona, performing in the end-of-year chamber concerts at the Ponchielli Theater. She also attended the Masterclasses and lessons of C. Schiller, S. Briatore, T. Riebl, L. Ranieri, A. Zemstov, U. Ulijona and D. Rossi.
As a chamber musician she has performed live on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' programme and has taken part in a series of chamber music concerts at the Anghiari Festival, including a performance of Shostakovich's Octet with the Allegri Quartet. She has taken part in the Aurora Chamber Music Festival in Sweden.
She has collaborated with several chamber orchestra projects including the “Bottega Tartiniana” with P. Toso, and at the Società del Quartetto di Vicenza with L. Spierer, historical shoulder of the Berliner Philharmoniker, being the winner of the Fatima Terzo Bernardi scholarship. Lucilla was selected to be part of the Southbank Sinfonia orchestra (London), with which in addition to the symphonic season, she performed in side-by-side formations with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and with members of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, supporting concerts at prestigious halls in London and the United Kingdom including the Barbican Centre and Glyndebourne Opera House.
He has played with the International Orchestra Institute Attergau under the patronage of the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Ensemble of the Mantua Chamber Orchestra (Mantua Chamber Music Festival), the Orchestra of the Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, the Orchestra Leonore of the Pistoiese Pro Musica Foundation, the “Colibrì Ensemble” of Pescara, the Orchestra Filrmonica of Turin, the orchestra of I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan and the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Regio of Turin.
In the field of teaching, Lucilla has obtained the second level qualification for teaching the Suzuki violin and is continuing her training with the Teacher Trainer Liana Mosca, she has followed the Children's Music Laboratory course held by Elena Enrico and attended the Roberto Goitre Music Teaching Study Center in Avigliana. She has collaborated with numerous state nursery and primary schools and organizations active in the Turin area, conducting musical workshops.
Silvia Musso. After graduating in modern harp at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan, and perfecting her skills with Cathérine Michel, Pierre Jamet, and Judith Liber, she specialized with Professor Mara Galassi in the study of historical harps and in the performance practice of the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire performed on original instruments. At the same time, she obtained a degree in modern literature with a thesis on soundtracks and film music.
He performs as a soloist and in various chamber and orchestral groups.
She has collaborated with prestigious early music groups including Accademia Bizantina (Dir. O. Dantone), La Venexiana (Dir. C. Cavina), Cremona Antiqua (Dir. A. Greco) Capella de Ministrers (Dir. G. Magraner), Cappella Santa Maria degli Angiolini (Dir. G. Lastraioli), Die Kleine Kantorei (Bern), and worked, as first harp, with the Como Stable Orchestra, the Gaetano Donizzetti Stable Orchestra of Bergamo, the Lecco Symphony Orchestra, the Carlo Coccia Symphony Orchestra of Novara. Since 1999 she has regularly collaborated with the Cantosospeso choir (Dir. M. Lutero) and has taken part in their tours in Kenya (2004) and Croatia (2011), assimilating from them the ethnomusicological intent of bringing back to light the forgotten music of the world.
She has participated in several national and international festivals and has performed in numerous Italian and European theatres and concert halls, including the Konzerthaus Liederhalle (Stuttgart), the Opéra Royale de Versailles (Versailles Festival), the Festival de musique ancienne et baroque de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache, the Maastricht Sacred Music Festival, the Grandezze & Meraviglie Estense Music Festival (Modena - Galleria Estense, Villa Sorra), the Monteverdi Festival (Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona), the Città di Mondovì and Academia Montis Regalis concert season, the Tuscan Festival of Ancient Music, the Armonie in Valcerrina Festival, Serate Musicali (Milan), the Modena Municipal Theatre, the Coccia Theatre (Novara), the Sala Verdi (Milan), the Palazzina Liberty (Milan), the Donizzetti Theatre (Bergamo), and the Municipal Theatre (Casale Monferrato).
She has always combined her concert activity with teaching. She teaches harp in various music schools including the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan, and the Fondazione Piseri in Brugherio, and has collaborated on seminar projects with students from the Conservatories of Lausanne, Modena and Mantua. She specialized in teaching music for early childhood, obtaining the qualification to teach harp with the Suzuki method.
Walter Gatti. He graduated in musical disciplines in the specializations of Harpsichord under the guidance of Andrea Coen and Francesca Lanfranco, Organ and Organ Composition under the guidance of Massimo Nosetti and Choral Music and Choral Conducting with Sergio Pasteris at the “Antonio Vivaldi” Conservatories of Alessandria and “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatories of Turin. Under the guidance of Paolo Tonini Bossi he also obtained, at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Turin, a second level specialization degree in Choral Music and Choral Conducting. He also studied Choral Conducting with Sebastian Korn and Dario Tabbia and composition with Riccardo Piacentini. He specialized in Organ with Letizia Romiti, Reinhard Jaud, Enzo Corti, Christopher Kent, Jean-Claude Zehnder, Rèné Saorgin.
Diploma of merit at the VI edition of the International Music Tournament, organ section and special interpretation prize “Paola Bernardi” at the IV harpsichord performance competition “Gianni Gambi” in Pesaro. Since 1988 he has performed regularly as a soloist and as an accompanist for choirs, soloists and orchestras in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Italy, playing for important festivals and in prestigious venues: Vienna, Lutheran Church; Prague, International Organ Festival of Sv. Jakuba; Łódź, International Festival 1996 and 1998; Sandomierz, International Festival; Tarnobrzeg, International Festival; Alpe d'Huez – Notre-Dame des Neiges; Belfort - Festival International de Musique Universitarie; Strasbourg – St. Thomas and Cathedral; Aups - Les concerts de St. Pancrace; Rouen - St-Maclou; St. Raphaël, - Notre-Dame de la Garde; Valence – Temple de St.Ruf; Gap - Cathedral; Embrun, Cathedral; Colmar - Cathedral; Le Havre – Cathedral; Mozart Festival of France Saou chante Mozart; Ciudad Rodrigo – Cathedral; El Barco de Ávila; Moutier – St. Germaine; Schweizer Orgelfestival und wettbewerb; Porrentruy - Aula des Jésuites; Thun - Chapelle Romande; La Chaux - de – Fonds - Grand Temple; Zurich – Zwinglikirche; St.Moritz Dorfkirche Walldorf - Begegnungen mit Italien 1994; Bamberg - University Auditorium and Kaiserdom; Ringethaler Orgelsommer; Weimar – Stadkirche; Lübeck – Marienkirche “Europäisches Buxtehude Festival”; Lübeck Cathedral; Marienkirche in Reutlingen; Lecco organ October; the concerts of S. Silvestro in Trieste; International organ festival of the province of Alessandria; Open-door cities of art, festival of the Province of Turin; Varese, Vespers at S. Massimiliano in Kolbe; Genoa, the Concerts of San Torpete; Organalia………, festival of the Province of Turin. From 1991 to 2001 he was an Italian observer and delegate at the Conference of European Evangelical Music (CEMEP) for which he also carried out organizational and concert activities.
In 1992 he was the artistic director of the “Rassegna Primavera” of the Comunità Montana della Val Pellice for the valorization of the organ heritage of the valley itself. In 1995 he held the position of titular organist of the Protestant church of Reconvilier Chaindon in the Bernese Jura (Switzerland). From 1988 to 2002 he was organist at the Waldensian church of Luserna S. Giovanni. From 2006 to 2010 he also held the position of titular organist at the Waldensian Temple of Torre Pellice. He is currently titular of the organ of the Waldensian Temple of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Turin and responsible for the music at the same institution. Composer of music for choir, organ, harpsichord, piano and other different instruments; His works have been published in Italy (by Musica Practica, Turin), in Germany (by Andreas Goldbach, St.Ingbert) and in Switzerland, on behalf of Editions Schola Cantorum, Fléurier.
He is also attentive to the aspect of teaching, for which, in addition to personal contributions, he is dedicating himself to some work of translation of foreign methods. The University of Bamberg, in Germany, commissioned him in 2005 a fantasy for organ and orchestra on "Veni Creator Spiritus" and in 2007 a "Stabat Mater". For the ensemble "Musici Errantes" he set to music on commission the fairy tale "Lo stralisco" by Roberto Piumini. Since 1991 he has directed the “Gruppo Musica”, since 2003 the “Gruppo vocale e strumentale Ferruccio Rivoir” and currently the Ensemble MusicAstratta, open to the widest musical panorama with which he carries out regular concert activities in Switzerland, France and Italy and has made recordings for RAI (section “Protestantesimo”) and a CD recording on behalf of the “Ensemble Poliphonique en Provence” during the 2ème Festival de la Sainte Baume (Marseille 1997).
Since 2010 he has been the director of the historic Coro Valdese of Turin. He has collaborated, as an organist and composer, with the orchestra and choir of the University of Bamberg in Germany, as an organist and director with the choir and Orchestra “Adoramus” of London, with the Choir “Roberto Goitre” and the Coro Resonare of Turin. He has also collaborated with the Teatro Regio of Turin and with RAI. He is the founder and director of the Ensemble Ars Abstracta, composed of young musicians from the Piedmont region, in harmony with the commitment to enhancing local resources and offering training experiences to emerging talents. He currently teaches organ, organ composition and harpsichord at the Civic Music Institute “Arcangelo Corelli” of Pinerolo and organ and theory and solfeggio at the Intercommunal Music School of Val Pellice in Luserna S. Giovanni, in the province of Turin.
He teaches organ, choir direction and choral composition at the Diocesan School of Sacred Music in Pinerolo (TO) and at the courses organized by the 1st district of the Waldensian Evangelical Church. In 2010, the Accademia Organistica Pinerolese was established and he was appointed its director. He was the artistic director of "Jeux d'Orgues", the organ season of Val Pellice, and of "Stylus Phantasticus", the organ season of Valle Susa. Since 2010 he has been the director of the Accademia Organistica Pinerolese.
Martina Anselmo. Born in Pinerolo, she attended the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Turin where she graduated in violin under the guidance of Maestro Edoardo Oddone with a three-year degree. She subsequently obtained the Diploma
level II academic in viola obtaining the highest marks, at the same Conservatory under
the guidance of Maestro Mauro Righini.
Thanks to the support of a multi-year scholarship from the De Sono Association for Music, she perfected her skills at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel under the guidance of M° Geneviève Strosser, obtaining the Diploma in Master of Arts in Musikalischer Performance.
During his years of study he deepened his knowledge of the chamber music repertoire in numerous Masterclasses with the Debussy Trio, Marian Mika, Ferenc Rados, and for the viola, solo and orchestral repertoire, he perfected his skills with Bruno Giuranna, Ula Ulijona, Simone Briatore, Maria Wolff, Armando Barilli, Enrico Carraro.
She has participated in numerous national and international orchestral groups, performing in Spain, Austria, Switzerland, France, Israel, China and Japan.
He collaborates with some Piedmontese excellences such as the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, the “Master dei Talenti” Orchestra of the CRT Foundation, the String Orchestra of the De Sono Association.
A finalist in numerous competitions and suitable in various auditions, she has collaborated with some of the main Italian ensembles including the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, conducted by names of the calibre of Juraj Valcuha, James Conlon, Pablo Heras Casado, Daniele Gatti, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jurij Temirkanov, Semyon Bychkov, Marin Alsop, Kirill Petrenko.
From 2016 to today he has been appointed tutor for the chamber music classes of the “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Turin, collaborating with M° Claudia Ravetto and Manuel Zigante.
Since 2017 he has collaborated on the projects of the musical group Architorti.
Active for years in the field of teaching both violin and viola, she is a qualified Suzuki teacher of level I.
Her deep interest in chamber music also leads her to perform in various groups
chamber music for numerous seasons and Italian festivals such as the Abruzzo Centri storiche in Musica, the chamber music concerts of the De Sono Association, Polincontri Classica at the Polytechnic of Turin,
Spring Music at Eridano, the Mantua Chamber Music Festival, Mozart Nacht und Tag in Turin, the Turin summer festival “Plucked Strings – Unusual Instruments”, MiTo Settembre Musica,
the Musical Union. She is also the founder of the Duo Énchorda together with guitarist Silvio D'Amore.
Giuseppe Massaria was born in Rome in 1994, he moved to Turin where at the age of 5 he began his studies under the guidance of Maestro Antonio Mosca at the Suzuki Talent Center in Turin. From the age of six he took part in numerous tours in Italy and abroad with the Suzuki Orchestra. He continued his studies at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Turin under the guidance of Maestro Dario Destefano and graduated with top marks in 2013. At the prestigious Hochschule der Künste in Bern he studied with Maestro Antonio Meneses, obtaining the Master Performance in 2015, and in 2016 the Cas under the guidance of Mo David Egger. He took part in various chamber music groups with which he performed in numerous halls in Bern, Italy, and the Vatican. He played the “Haydn in D” concerto as a soloist with an ensemble of musicians from the Hochschule in Bern. Among his many collaborations, we can mention those with MiTo Settembre musica, “Polinotri Classica” of Turin, “Unione Musicale” and “Concertante” of Turin. He won competitions such as the “Rovere d'oro” in S. Bartolomeo a Mare (first prize in the chamber music category) and the Pugnani prize 2012, where he also won the special prize as a soloist. With the Alke quartet he won the first absolute prize 2015-19 of the 32nd European Musica Competition city of Moncalieri. He collaborates regularly with the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio of Turin, the Orchestra Filarmonica of Turin, the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice of Venice, with which he had the opportunity to play with great conductors and soloists such as Maestros Gianandrea Noseda, Nicola Luisotti, Alexander Mayer, Jan Latham-Koenig, Fabio Luisi, Daniele Rustioni, to name a few.
In 2022 he won the competition as a cello in the row at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and in 2023 he won as a cello concerto of the Teatro Regio in Turin.
Stefano Arato, born in 1993, approached music by studying piano and then dedicating himself to the accordion, becoming a student first of Maestro Agagliate and then of Maestro Pitzianti. In 2014 he was admitted to the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, where he obtained, with full marks and honors, the Level I Diploma (2018) and the Level II Master (2021) in accordion in the class of Maestro Scappini. He participated in seminars and masterclasses with Giorgio Dellarole and Yeugeniya Cherkazova.
His concert activity includes participation in the world premieres of the chamber works Ghismonda and Tancredi and Davide e Gionata by the Turin composer Marco Emanuele and, in collaboration with the Conservatory of Alessandria, in the Italian premieres of the works The Great Houdini and Euridice. He has collaborated and collaborates occasionally with various musical groups including El gato quintet, Orchestra della Centrale, Contrametric Ensemble, Mishkalè. He has collaborated with La Fabbrica Dei Suoni as part of the Diderot Project of the CRT Foundation, participating in concert-lesson tours in Piedmont and Val d'Aosta.
He is the founder of the new publishing project Rescribens, a reality that proposes classical compositions through ad hoc arrangements for ensembles including the accordion. These adaptations earned the Duo Rescribens first place at the International Accordion Competition Fête de l'Accordèon.
He is currently an accordion teacher at the Scuola Popolare di Musica (Turin), at the Associazione Musica in Cerchio (Turin) and at the Centro di Formazione Musicale (Turin). He attended the Suzuki Accordion Project training course at the Associazione Culturale Suzuki Asti and the Master in digital accordion at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan.
Riccardo Conti approaches the study of drums with Maestro Gianpaolo Petrini. In 2013 he graduates in "Drums and Jazz Percussion" at the G.Verdi Conservatory of Turin under the guidance of Maestro Enzo Zirilli. At the same time he continues the study of Jazz Vibraphone, specializing with Maestro Andrea Dulbecco. Also at the G.Verdi Conservatory of Turin, he graduates in "Jazz Composition" writing a Jazz Suite for octet entitled "La Rosa dei Venti". He studies classical percussion with Maestro Riccardo Balbinutti and participates in international masterclasses, including those of the Juilliard School, Mike Mainieri and the International Jazzwerkstatt of Saarwellingen (DE). He collaborates with the classical, jazz and modern music orchestra "Orchestrabile" directed by Maestro Andrea Damiano Cotti. He collaborates with the guitarist Matteo De Feo recording numerous tracks of his solo album "The Trace". He performs with some jazz groups, including the duo with the trumpeter Igor Vigna, the "Crevacuore Quartet", the "Brillante Jazz Quartet", "Marco Tardito Eleven" and the duo "Vibes and Voice" with the singer Caterina Accorsi. With these he participates in festivals such as "Valenza Jazz", "Novara Jazz Festival" and "Torino Jazz Festival". He collaborates with the group "Accordi Disaccordi", recording a track of their album "Decanter". In 2018 he was selected as a vibraphonist by the Orchestra Italiana Jazz dei Conservatori directed by Maestro Pino Jodige, with which he participates in numerous Italian Jazz Festivals collaborating with Tino Tracanna, Alex Sipiagin, Fabrizio Bosso and Mario Biondi. Since 2015 he began teaching at numerous musical associations in Turin.
In October 2016 he attended a masterclass with the vibraphonist and founder of Steps Ahaed Mike Mainieri. In 2017 he began collaborating with the clarinetist/saxophonist Marco Tardito, with whom he recorded the album "Howl". In the same year in July he took a solo trip with the vibraphone to play in some European cities, in particular in Munich, Vienna, Prague and Berlin, where in addition to his activity as a street musician he had the opportunity to play with numerous local jazz musicians. In August 2017 and 2018 he attended seminars at the Jazzwerkstatt in Saarwellingen, Germany, where he took lessons from the vibraphonist and drummer Jim Hart. Also in 2019 he graduated in Jazz Composition and Arrangement at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin, playing an original composition arranged for jazz octet called "La Rosa Dei Venti". He regularly collaborates with the group "Accordi Disaccordi" and with the singer Caterina Accorsi. In August 2020 he collaborates with the Turin guitarist Luigi Tessarollo, with whom he performs in the prestigious Villa Grazia in Pino Torinese. In October of the same year he debuts with his original compositions at the Jazz Club Torino, while in December he gets his first job as a substitute teacher of music education in the "Parri-Vian" secondary school.