Valentina Messa

Valentina Messa graduated from the Conservatory of Venice with the highest marks, honors, and a special mention in 1999.

In 2007, she obtained a second-level academic diploma at the Conservatory of Genoa with 110, honors, and a special mention. She refined her skills with P. Rattalino in the three-year courses at the Portogruaro School of Advanced Musical Studies and later with L. B. Arcuri, P. Masi, and E. Pace, following masterclasses with renowned pianists such as B. Petrushanski, S. Pedroni, A. Specchi, K. Helvigg, J. Achucarro, M. Damerini, and B. Canino.
She has won several scholarships and awards in national and international competitions, including the Premio Venezia, the Gante Competition in Pordenone, and the Societa' Umanitaria Competition in Milan, and has performed concerts both in Italy and abroad since the age of thirteen. Her performances have taken place in prestigious contexts such as the Concerts of the Normale of Pisa, the Trier Theatre, the Carlo Felice and Gog Theatres in Genoa, the Unione Musicale in Turin, the Chigiana Academy in Siena, the Grande Theatre in Brescia, the Cervo Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, the Logan Centre for the Performing Arts in Chicago, and Harvard University in Boston. As a soloist, she has collaborated with the Orchestra of Padua and the Veneto, the Philharmonic of Udine, and the Philharmonische Orchester der Stadt Trier.
Her main activities are chamber music with instrumentalists and singers and contemporary music, as a stable pianist for Eutopia Ensemble, a group dedicated to contemporary music, and as a frequent collaborator with Sentieri Selvaggi, conducted by Carlo Boccadoro. She has worked with numerous chamber musicians, including L. Borrani, J. I. Murakami, M. Damerini, R. Agosti, E. Abeshi, A. Rebaudengo, M. Ben Omar, R. Crocilla, A. Berovsky, A. Pinzaru, Dami Kim, K. Nagaoka, M. Milstein, In Mo Young, Albrecht Menzel, Kevin Zhu, Mirella Di Vita, and Giulia Beatini. For years, she has played the role of collaborative pianist, particularly for string instrument players, in numerous masterclasses and annual courses, working also at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo, and as an official pianist in competitions such as the Postacchini in Fermo, the Paganini Prize in Genoa, and the Mazzacurati in Turin. She is currently a principal piano teacher at the Ghedini Conservatory in Cuneo.