Valentina Vatteroni

Valentina Vatteroni started her musical education when she was eight years old at the Music School in Carrara, her home town.

She continued her studies at the Conservatory of Music Giacomo Puccini of La Spezia, with the teacher Lisetta Rossi, where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in 2018 and a Master’s Degree in 2020 with highest mark: 110/110 Cum Laude and Honourable Mention. During her academic studies, she had the opportunity of being an Erasmus student twice; she attended her last year of Bachelor Degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, with the harpist Jana Boušková, and her last six months of Master Degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, with the harpist Imogen Barford. She then furthered her studies at the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Verdi of Milan where she attended a Second level Master course in Harp Soloist/orchestral specialization, which she also completed with highest marks. She is currently attending a Master course at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main with harpist Françoise Verherve.
As an orchestral harpist, in 2021 she won the audition for the Paul Hindemith Orchesterakademie at the Oper Frankfurt, with whom she played for the 2021/2022 season. She currently has a temporary contract as Solo Harp with the Saarländischen Staatsorchester, orchestra of the Opera House in Saarbrücken. She collaborates and has collaborated with important orchestras on the European music scene: the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña in Spain, the MDR-Sinfonieorchester, the Staatsorchester Darmstadt, the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, the Boulez Ensemble the Stadttheater Gießen and the Thüringer Symphoniker in Germany, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Orchestra Sinfonica d'Este and the Orchestra Filarmonica Vittorio Calamani in Italy. In 2020 she won the audition for the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra for the summer festival 2020 and 2021.
She attended the Course Professione Orchestra 2020, an advanced training for future orchestra professionals held by Margherita Bassani. She took part in many masterclasses held by international harpists such as Fabrice Pierre, Helga Storck, Alexander Boldachev, Manja Smits and Letizia Belmondo.
She has been performing both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles in Italy, Belgium, Germany and UK; she has also performed as Soloist with Orchestra the Harp Concerto by G. F. Händel and the Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra by W. A. Mozart.