Claudia Bracco

Italian pianist Claudia Bracco gained her degree at the age of 18 with top marks at the «Conservatorio G.

Verdi» of Milan (Italy), where she also studied and took the diploma of harpsichord. After then she took a year-long classes with Emilia Fadini and Alexander Lonquich and attended master classes with Lazar Berman, Halina Czerny -Stefanska, Massimiliano Damerini, Rocco Filippini, Pavel Vernikov and Alessandro Specchi. She experienced Portogruaro postgraduating International Courses with Marian Mika and Kostantin Bogino (1992) and at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome with Felix Ayo, where in 1999 she gained her degree in Chamber Music. Whilst pursuing graduate studies, she took part into many national and international competitions, obtaining 16 first prizes. She regularly performs, in solo recitals or as chamber musician, in prestigious halls such as Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Vascello and Auditoruim di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Sala Verdi by the Conservatorio in Milan, Teatru Manoel in La Valletta, Filharmonii in Lublin. Since 1988 she has regularly taught in master classes together with eminent musicians such as Glauco Cambursano, Patrick Gallois, Raymond Guiot, Franco Gulli, Conrad Klemm, Jean Pierre Rampal, Radovan Vladkovic. Claudia Bracco has realised many fine recordings for Talent Records, Dad, Leonarda, Bayer Records. Her discs include music by Beethoven, Caplet, Desenclos, Rudolph, Hoffmeister, Damase, Mozart, Paisiello, Schubert, Weber. Since 1994 she has been professor of Chamber Music at the Conservatory in Como.