Violinist. A rising star of the European music community, she shall be remembered for her numerous well-received performances. Raised in Rome, she evidenced her violin talent early and studied at the International Academy of Pottoguaro, Venice, and at the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, as well as with private teachers and at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Carlotta graduated from the Benevento Conservatory at 17 and did well in competitions, taking the Fritz Kreisler Award at Matera in 2006 and earning honors at the Ibla Grand Prize in 2007 and 2008. As she expanded her performing schedule to include ever more important venues in Italy and the rest of Europe, along the way earning special praise for interpreting the works of Bach, Ysaye, and Cesar Franck, she persued a second career as an art historian and curator, receiving a degree from La Sapienza of Rome and taking graduate courses at Cambridge University. Besides her solo appearances, Carlotta was a busy chamber artist and from 2010 on was director of the orchestra at the Accademia di Santa Sophia of Benevento. A poet in her spare time, she published two volumes of her works, "The Silence of the Hidden Words" and "Oxymoron"; Carlotta died of metastatic melanoma leaving a small but significant recorded legacy which includes 2012's CD "The Pentagram of Memory", a collection of previously neglected Jewish pieces.
Violinist. A rising star of the European music community, she shall be remembered for her numerous well-received performances. Raised in Rome, she evidenced her violin talent early and studied at the International Academy of Pottoguaro, Venice, and at the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, as well as with private teachers and at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Carlotta graduated from the Benevento Conservatory at 17 and did well in competitions, taking the Fritz Kreisler Award at Matera in 2006 and earning honors at the Ibla Grand Prize in 2007 and 2008. As she expanded her performing schedule to include ever more important venues in Italy and the rest of Europe, along the way earning special praise for interpreting the works of Bach, Ysaye, and Cesar Franck, she persued a second career as an art historian and curator, receiving a degree from La Sapienza of Rome and taking graduate courses at Cambridge University. Besides her solo appearances, Carlotta was a busy chamber artist and from 2010 on was director of the orchestra at the Accademia di Santa Sophia of Benevento. A poet in her spare time, she published two volumes of her works, "The Silence of the Hidden Words" and "Oxymoron"; Carlotta died of metastatic melanoma leaving a small but significant recorded legacy which includes 2012's CD "The Pentagram of Memory", a collection of previously neglected Jewish pieces.
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