Chiara Morandi
Vita
Chiara Morandi studied the violin under the supervision of M° Andrea Tacchi at the Conservatorio L. Cherubini in Florence, where, in June 2000, she gained a diploma with maximum marks.
She continued her studies in Germany at the Freiburg Musikhochschule under the supervision of Nicolas Chumachenco. She achieved the Orchestermusiker Diploma with maximum marks in July 2001, and the Solisten Diploma in Violin in July 2003.
She took specialist courses in violin with Yulia Berinskaya and Salvatore Accardo at the Cremona Accademia W. Stauffer and the Siena Accademia Chigiana, and courses in chamber music with Bruno Canino, Alexander Lonquich, Rocco Filippini, the Trio di Trieste, the Trio di Parma and the Trio Altenberg.
She has participated in various national and international competitions, achieving 15 first prizes, including: the V Rassegna Musicale Migliori Diplomati dItalia 2000, Castrocaro Terme in 2001; the first prize at the international competition Johannes Brahms, Acqui Terme (AL) in 2002; and the first prize at the international competition AMG-Classica, Nuovi Talenti 2003, Geneva in 2003. In 2004, she received the Premio Speciale for the best Italian competitor at the International Competition for violin and orchestra Valsesia Musica, Varallo.
In 2006 she won the Competition for the Spalla dei Secondi Violini at the ORT-Orchestra Regionale Toscana, a position which she still holds.
In 2009 she won the International Competition for Violin in the Teatro alla Scala of Milan.
She has worked often with various eminent orchestras as Concertmaster, including the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa. From 2007, thanks to Salvatore Accardo, she has held the position of Spalla dei Secondi Violini with the Orchestra da Camera Italiana founded by Lui Stesso. In 2012 she performed with this Orchestra on Fabio Fazios programme Che tempo che fa on RAI 3.
She has taken part in more than a thousand concerts including numerous recitals and solo performances throughout Europe.
She has performed as a soloist with the ORT-Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Orchestra Festival Puccini, the Mihail Jora di Bacau, the Junge Kammer-Philharmonie, Freiburg, the MHS Orchester Freiburg, interpreting, among other pieces, Beethovens Concerto op.61, Mendelssohns op.64, the n.3 Op. 61 of Saint-Saens, Brahms Concert op.77 and double Concerto op. 102. In November 2011 she had the honour of holding a recital of Paganinis music with the renowned American guitarist Eliot Fisk, and in March 2014 will perform with the celebrated pianist Bruno Canino in the execution of Schoenbergs Pierrot Lunaire.
In March 2012 she was invited to take part as soloist in J.S. Bachs concertos for violin and orchestra at the first Festival Internazionale WorldBach Fest organised by Mario Ruffini and Ramin Bahrami.
Alongside a career as an instrumentalist, she has pursued with great passion that of teaching. She has taught violin at the Conservatorio Statale G. Puccini, La Spezia, and at the Conservatorio Statale F. Ghedini, Cuneo, and currently holds the teaching post for violin at the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato P. Mascagni, Livorno.
She has held several masterclasses for violin, including a half-yearly one at the Accademia Musicale of Pontedera, and since 2012 a summer masterclass as part of the Festival Musicale Internazionale of the Accademia di Bertinoro (FC), at which she also performed in duet with the pianist Pier Narciso Masi.
In September 2009 she also gained a diploma with maximum marks in viola, honours, and the Menzione dOnore at the Instituto Musicale Pareggiato P. Mascagni, Livorno. In 2010 she won an audition for first viola with the ORT-Orchestra Regionale Toscana.
Recently she won the audition for the role of Concertmaster at the Orchestra of Teatro “Carlo Felice” in Genoa.