Maria Chiara Bignozzi

Maria Chiara Bignozzi started her bassoon studies at the age of seventeen with professor Lorenzo Bettini at the Conservatory of Bologna, where she graduated.

She then attended an advanced program at the APM School in Saluzzo in collaboration with the Teatro Regio Orchestra of Turin.
She continued her studies first with Prof. David Tomas in Karlsruhe and then with Fredrik Ekdahl in Trossingen, attending a Master in Chamber Music.
Maria Chiara has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Philharmonic Orchestras of Freiburg and of Baden-Baden in Germany and in Italy first the Italian Youth Orchestra, the OTO in Vicenza, Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the Academy of Teatro alla Scala, and later the orchestras of Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Haydn in Bolzano, Teatro Regio in Turin, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Teatro Bellini in Catania, with Orchestra Sinfonica of Sanremo, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Vittorio Calamani Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra. She performed with conductors such as Alain Altinoglu and Pinchas Steinberg, soloists like Sergej A. Krylov.