Allegra Ciancio

Allegra Ciancio
A pianist by birth and trained in Catania, she obtained his Diploma in Piano in 2015 under the guidance of Maria Pia Tricoli at the Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory in Catania.

She later earned a second-level Master’s degree in Music Disciplines. In 2021, she completed a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, studying with Anna Kravtchenko, followed in 2023 by a Master of Advanced Studies in Music Performance and Interpretation. She is currently attending a Master of Arts in Music Performance at the same Conservatory.
In 2021, she passed the audition for the role of accompanist at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan, a position she held from 2021 to 2023.
She has participated in numerous piano competitions, winning many first prizes: including the Gianluca Campochiaro International Competition in Pedara, the Mandanici Competition in Barcellona P.G., the Amigdala National Music Competition in Viagrande, the Music Competition organised by the Rotary Club of Augusta; and the “V. Scaramuzza” International Competition in Crotone. In 2011, she won the prize for the best performance of F. Liszt as part of the “Premio Raciti”. She won also the Fryderyk Chopin Special Prize for the best performance of a work by the composer at the Arona International Piano Competition 2022.
She has given many concerts as a soloist, in chamber ensembles and as a soloist with orchestras.
In 2016, after winning the audition held by the Conservatory of Catania, she performed Beethoven's Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 with the Bellini Youth Orchestra at the Palazzo Platamone in Catania. She has also performed Mozart's Piano Concerto K414 on several occasions, both with an ensemble and with a quartet. In 2023, she played Chopin's Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 with the quartet in the Aula Magna of the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland. In 2023, she passed the audition held by the Swiss Conservatory to play Clara Schumann's Konsertsatz with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana at the Auditorium Stelio Molo in Lugano.
She has performed in various venues and seasons in Switzerland: the LAC Hall in Lugano, the Majid Foundation in Ascona, and the Stelio Molo Auditorium in Lugano for the “900presente” season and the LuganoPiano event.
In Italy, she has given concerts for important concert seasons and associations such as the AFAM in Floridia; the Associazione Concerti “Città di Noto”; the ASAM in Syracuse; the A.gi.mus in Syracuse; the Associazione “Cromatismi del Mediterraneo” in Catania; the Auditorium Rai in Palermo; the Associazione Concerti del Tempietto in Rome; at the Politeama in Seveso with a concert entirely dedicated to Schubert; the “Respiri d'autore” festival at the Tenuta S. Michele in Santa Venerina; Pianocity Milano; the Camerata Polifonica Siciliana, and the Associazione Luogo comune in Catania.