BIOGRAPHY
studies
Roberta was born in Milan in 1989.
She achieved her Bachelor Degree at the Conservatory “Giacomo Puccini” of Gallarate in Italy, studying with Marco Bonfanti. In 2016 she moved to Brussels for her Master studies at the "Koninklijk Conservatorium" with Antigoni Goni where she graduated with honours. Passionate by historical instruments she dedicated to ancient plucked instruments studying with Edwin García and Xavier Díaz Latorre at Esmuc in Barcelona. She also obtained a Master Degree in Musicology at the Faculty of Cremona.
Over the years she attended several masterclasses with renowed musicians: Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli, Zoran Dukic, Ricardo Gallen, Adriano Del Sal, Hopkinson Smith, Carlo Marchione, Andrea Dieci, Elena Papandreu and Duo Melis.
Together with music, she also built a parallel career around literature and languages obtaining a Master Degree in "Foreign Languages and Literature" at the University of Milan.
music and theatre
She has been playing in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles.
In 2016 she started a collaboration with the Orchestra Alchimia with whom she performed the "concerto in D major RV93" by Vivaldi in the Unesco Site “Collegiata” of Castiglione Olona and in 2018 she played the concerto “Fantasia para un Gentilhombre” in the theatres of Busto Arsizio and Castano Primo.
Her current musical projects include the promotion of Italian repertoire performed on historical instruments.
She also creates crossover performances between music and theatre. With the work CITTÀ (IN)VISIBILI she won the artistic residency at the Karakorum Theatre of Varese in 2021. Her latest work, PASSATO PROSSIMO, has received support from the foundation Fondazione Claudia Lombardi of Lugano (CH).
teaching
She is guitar teacher at the CEM Conservatory of Terrassa (Catalunya) and history of music teacher in the Belgian cultural centre "Italia per Passione" of Brussels.
musicology
She worked for LaVerdi of Milan in the writing of concert notes and in the pre-concert conferences of the symphonic season.
She now writes concert notes for the chamber music festival and the symphonic festival of Busto Arsizio.
She published for "Sconfinarte" and "GuitArt".