Artist · Viola
Francesca Venturi Ferriolo
Biography
Francesca Venturi Ferriolo is an italian violist, performing and researching the viola solo and chamber music repertoire from baroque to romantic.
She is PHD student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt. She is co-founder member of the the early music Ensemble Il Quadro Animato with which she won the first prize at the Selifa International early music competition in 2015 and the special prize Kulturfeste im Land Brandenburg at the Gebrüder-Graun Competition in 2016. In the same year, the ensemble was selected for the Eeemerging Program for the years 2017 and 2018. She studied viola (Master's program in Historical Interpretation Practice) with Professor Petra Müllejans and Mechthild Karkow at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She previously studied with Werner Saller, Aroa Sorin, Patrick Jüdt, Giuseppe Miglioli and instructed during masterclasses led by Susanne Scholz, Aida Carmen Soanea, Patrick Jordan, Christian Goosses, Lucy Van Dael, Ton Koopman and Ashley Solomon. In 2016, she won a scholarship for attending the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in Toronto, Canada. In 2015, she won the viola’s selection to take part in the project Génération Baroque in Strasbourg, led by Martin Gester.
She has performed at festivals across Europe, including at the Vielklang Festival- Tübingen, Festival d'Ambronay, Thüringer Bachwochen, Händel- Festspiele, Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival- York, Haller Bach- Tage, Sonntagsmusik (Telemann- Haus Magdeburg), konzertreihe Händel- Haus Halle. She is teaching violin and viola at the “Staatliche Musikschule “in Hofheim am Taunus.