Marina Scalafiotti
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Marina Scalafiotti is an Italian pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

 and teacher and widely considered for her great interpretations spanning from baroque
Baroque music
Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...

 to contemporary music.

Marina Scalafiotti starts studying piano in the Conservatorio G.Verdi of Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 with d’Amelia Careggio. Once she obtained her diplom she continued her studies with Orazio Frugoni for the piano, with the Trio di Trieste for Chamber Music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 and with Giorgio Tabacco for the harpsichord
Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

.

During these years she obtained excellent results and won 23 important prizes in piano competitions. The Fondazione Romanini of Brescia
Brescia
Brescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...

 then offered Scholarship allowing Marina Scalafiotti to study with Maria Golia, Lazar Berman
Lazar Berman
Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends....

, Boris Petrushansky
Boris Petrushansky
Boris Petrushansky is a Russian pianist, naturalized Italian citizen.Petrushansky started an intense intercontinental concert career at the mid-70s. After the USSR's collapse he settled in Italy.-References:...

 and Boris Bloch.

Her concert career progressed quickly and she played in prestigious halls of Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Argentina.

She performed for many radio recordings (Radio rai, Radio France
Radio France
Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...

, Bayerische Rundfunk), television (RAI
RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

, Classica canale satellitare) and discographic (Phonocomp).

in 1995, encouraged by Alexis Weissemberg and thanks to another scholarship offered by the De Sono association she moves to Paris to study with Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri (a former pupil of Claudio Arrau
Claudio Arrau
Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...

) at the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot
Alfred Cortot
Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

 where she obtained her superior diploms of Teaching, Execution and Chamber Music.

Marina Scalafiotti is often invited as teacher in international Master classes in various places around the world, and is also regularly invited to make part of the Jury Committee in piano competitions.

Marina Scalafiotti is actually teaching at the Music Conservatory of Turin.

There are very few commercial recordings of Marina Scalafiotti available, but she regularly publishes live recordings on her website and podcast.

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