Camilletti, Simonetta: The Earth's Breath: 32 Romances Op.1, for Guitar

Simonetta Camilletti is an Italian classical guitarist, composer and writer. She holds a guitar diploma and graduated with honours in humanities from Rome’s Sapienza University, with a music-history dissertation on Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazil and the guitar. She continued her musical studies at Siena’s Accademia Musicale Chigiana.

Her performances have been broadcast by RAI, Vatican Radio and Swiss television. She has contributed to music journals and the music section of the Treccani Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, alongside publishing poetry and prose. Her recordings include Guitaromanie and her own Romanze, Op. 1, Nos. 1–32, released by Da Vinci as Il respiro della terra.

She teaches guitar at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatory. Her concert and teaching projects also explore musicians’ wellbeing, inner awareness and music as a means of dialogue and peace.