Francesca Lanfranco

FRANCESCA LANFRANCO
Born in Turin in 1958, she obtained the "1er Prix de Virtuosité" in harpsichord at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique in Geneva under the guidance of Christiane Jaccottet.

She studied with Alda Bellasich at the "Niccolò Paganini" Conservatory in Genoa, graduating with honors, and with Bob van Asperen and Kenneth Gilbert at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, obtaining the Award of Merit. She also graduated brilliantly in piano at the Conservatory of Turin under the guidance of Annamaria Cìgoli and Gabriella Galli Angelini. Winner of the First Prize at the Harpsichord Competition in Bologna, she has performed in concerts for prominent associations in Italy and abroad as a soloist, as a chamber musician and as a continuist. She has also recorded several monographic discs including the complete harpsichord works of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guèrre, Francesco Geminiani's Pièces de clavecin, Prospero Cauciello's Trio Sonatas and Manuel Ponce's chamber works for guitar and harpsichord with Brilliant, Rivo Alto and Tactus labels. In addition to her concert activity, she has always been a teacher: winner and first prizewinner in the national competition for examinations and qualifications in 1994, she became professor of harpsichord and historical keyboards at the “A.Vivaldi" Conservatory in Alessandria, where she continued to teach for 21 years. Today she is a professor at the "G.Verdi" Conservatory in Turin.
Her vast favorite repertoire includes the great 17th and 18th century French harpsichordists Louis and François Couperin, J.H.D'Anglebert, J.S.Bach, Karl Philip Emanuel Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, G.Frescobaldi and amongst others, various 20th century composers such as György Ligeti, Manuel de Falla, Maurice Ohana.