Pirastro Young Artist (Echoarts Munich, 2021) and holder of the Swiss Governement Excellence scholarship for Foreisgn scholars and artists, Margherita is a passionate and curious musician. Active both as a soloist and a chamber musician, Margherita is currently pursuing her advanced studies in Music Pedagogy at the Hochschule der Künste Bern alongside her concert activity with fellow musicians and ensembles in Europe. In 2021, Margherita was awarded the Roscini-Padalino Prize for the best newly graduated Italian students, after receiving her Bachelor degree at age 19, graduating summa cum laude. During her studies in Italy, she followed Antonio Meneses from age 14, first at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona and later at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, where she got her first Master degree in Music Performance and a minor in chamber music in the class of Patrick Jüdt in 2022. She is also receipient of the De Sono Associazione per la Musica scholarship 2023 which supported her second master studies at Conservatorium Maastricht with Quirine Viersen. Passionate about historical performance and musicology, Margherita is since 2021 an independent author and creator for the Italian online magazine Quinte Parallele. She continues to broaden her horizons and abilities on period instruments under the guidance of violinist and conductor Shunske Sato and by undertaking a minor in baroque cello with Job Ter Haar.
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Based in Switzerland and supported by the S.& Salzmann Stiftung and the Beat Peter Neeser Stiftung, Margherita has performed on important stages (Elbphilharmonie, Wiener Musikverein, Teatro Argentina, Sale Apollinee del Teatro La Fenice, Cello Biennale, Künstlerhaus Bowsil, Palazzo Veneto,) and has been invited to perform with CHAARTS Chamber Artists during the '22/23 season. Margherita attended numerous masterclasses with renowned musicians, namely Cecilia Ziano, Steven Isserlis, Enrico Bronzi, Frans Helmerson at the Sion Violon Musique festival (where she was awarded the festival scholarship as best student of the cello class), Diana Ketler, Erik Schumann (Schumann Quartett), Shuann Chai, Gary Hoffman. As part of her responsibility as a performer, Margherita is particularly committed in commissioning new works to Italian young composers as part of her programming and repertoire proposals. She has commissioned and premiered pieces by Catenaccio, De Felice, students of the class of composition at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena and she will premiere a piano trio commissioned by pianist Emanuele Torquati to Francesco Perrotti in Italy next April. Margherita is core member of the Nefelibata New Music Collective, a young, experimenting contemporary ensemble based between Netherlands and Switzerland, with which she has recently performed the Cello Concerto "Pro et Contra" by Arvo Pärt.