Armanda Desidery

Armanda Desidery is a pianist, composer and arranger from Naples. Raised in a musical family, she began with drums at the age of five and took up the piano at nine. Her father, the musician and teacher Gianni Desidery, played an important role in her early musical education.

Classically trained, she has developed a personal musical language that draws on jazz, Latin American music and Mediterranean traditions. Her work includes original compositions, ensemble projects and collaborations with other musicians. She appears as pianist on Antonello Paliotti’s Da Vinci album Long Shadows.