Maria Cristina Pantaleoni

Maria Cristina Pantaleoni: After graduating from the "G. Verdi" Conservatory in Turin, from 1986 to 1992 she attended the Ecole Internationale de Piano in Lausanne with Fausto Zadra.

During these years, she also specialized in the chamber repertoire in Mestre with artists such as Vernikov, Asciolla, Bogino, and Meunier. She attended a special course by Alina Czerny -Stefanska in Novara in 1991 and a Chamber Music course at the Accademia Ducale in Genoa with Dario de Rosa - pianist of Trio di Trieste - in 1996. Winner in national and international competitions, her repertoire ranges from solo to chamber music. She is frequently involved in concerts with important soloists as well as section leaders of major orchestras in concert seasons in Italy and abroad. She has performed as soloist with Aosta Symphony Orchestra, Piacenza Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestra Camerata Mozart of Rome, recording projects for Rai-Radio Televisione Italiana and Spanish National Television. For over twenty years she collaborates with internationally renowned opera singers, also in the role of substitute-teacher. With some of her fellow musicians, in 2019 she founded a piano and wind instruments ensemble, named Ars Nova Quintet, touring in prestigious halls with Mozart and Beethoven's Quintets. It is thirty years since she started an artistic partnership with Federico Longhi, performing together operatic and art song repertoire and exploring the French and Italian melodies composed in the late 19th century. Currently, she is a professor of score-reading at the Conservatoire de la Vallée d'Aoste.