Artist · Harpsichord
Ilaria Monticelli
Biography
Ilaria Monticelli
She started piano studies at Conservatory "G. Donizetti" in Bergamo (Italy) under Maria Grazia Bellocchio.
She began to be mainly active as pianist in a piano duo, winnig some important national and european chamber music competitions that took her to perform in concert halls, theaters and festivals in Italy.
Musically crucial was the acquaintance with the organist and harpsichordist Matteo Messori, thanks to whom she discovered historical keayboards.
She completed so her studies in harpsichord with full marks at the same Conservatory under Messori, and later moved to Cologne to improve under Michael Borgstede at the "Hochschule für Musik und Tanz", where she plays and collaborates both as soloist and as continuist.