Germana Porcu

Born in 1988, Germana Porcu began her musical studies with Fulvio Cusano and graduated with highest honours from the G. Donizetti Institute in Bergamo. In 2010 she received Bergamo’s Premio Rotary as the best graduating student. She joined the Orchestra Bergamo Musica Festival at the Teatro Donizetti in 2006, touring Italy, Japan and Sweden. In 2009 she performed Giya Kancheli’s In l’istesso tempo under the composer’s guidance, earning his warm appreciation.

Her competition awards include first prize at the third International Chamber Music Competition Miryam and Pierluigi Vacchelli; first prize at the eleventh International Music Competition Italian Festival, together with the Soloist with Orchestra special prize, which led to a performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219, with the Orchestra Alessandria Classica; third prize at the thirtieth Michelangelo Abbado International Violin Competition, where neither first nor second prize was awarded; and first prize in the Soloist with Orchestra category of the twenty-sixth European Music Competition. She also received a scholarship donated by Claudio Abbado.

In 2013 she was named Most Distinguished Violinist at the Ibla Grand Prize. In 2015 she won third prize at the fifth Concurso y Festival Internacional de Músicos in Madrid, making her debut in the city to the appreciation of the audience and jury president Victor Abramyan, professor of violin at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and Spain. Her studies have included work with Fulvio Cusano in Fiesole, Stéphane Gessner in Paris and Klaidi Sahatci in Lugano, as well as masterclasses with Igor Volochine, Svetlana Makarova and Pavel Vernikov. In 2015 she began performing in a duo with pianist Sara Costa; together with cellist Matilda Colliard, they founded Trio Carducci.