Silvia Belfiore

Silvia Belfiore graduated in piano from the Alessandria Conservatory, where she studied with Massimo Paderni, and earned a degree in musicology with the highest marks from the University of Bologna. She pursued further studies with Szidon, Kontarsky, Micault, Damerini, Masi, Gottlieb, Celibidache and Rattalino. At the time of this recording’s original publication, she was undertaking a master’s programme in the Music Department of Université Paris 8 under Antonio Lai, with a thesis entitled Écriture et oralité dans la musique africaine actuelle. Compositeurs contemporains de l’Afrique sub-saharienne du nord-ouest.

After receiving a scholarship, she attended the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music in 1986, 1990 and 1992. She has received awards for her artistic work and has recorded for Moldovan state television, Globo television in Brazil, Bavarian Radio and Rai Radio 3. By the time of the original booklet, her discography comprised twelve CDs as a soloist and chamber musician, covering both classical and contemporary repertoire.

Her commitment to new music has prompted numerous composers to dedicate works to her, including Helmut Bieler, Mauro Bortolotti, Aldo Brizzi, Nicola Cisternino, Aldo Clementi, Gianvincenzo Cresta, Giorgio Ghisetti, Stefan Grové, Horst Lohse, Martin Kürshner, Diego Macías Steiner, Fred Onovwerosuoke, Biagio Putignano, Godwin Sadoh, Gerardo Tristano and Anatol Vieru. She has also undertaken research and cataloguing of musical heritage for the Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte.

Her teaching activity has included piano at the Vittadini Conservatory in Pavia, as well as workshops and masterclasses at institutes, music schools and universities in Italy, Portugal, Brazil, California, Côte d’Ivoire, Spain, Tanzania and Togo.

Her interest in varied forms of artistic expression and collaboration has led to more than five hundred solo and chamber music concerts in Brazil, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mexico, Moldova, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Togo, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1998 she became artistic director of Omaggio a…, the international contemporary music festival in Acqui Terme, Italy.