Pirastro Young Artist (Echoarts Munich, 2021) and holder of the Swiss Government Excellence scholarship for Foreign 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.
photo credit: Pippa Sieppala
Photo credit: Pippa Sieppala
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.
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.
Since April 2026 Margherita plays on an instrument by O. Möckel made in Berlin in 1906 thanks to the generous support of the Swiss Instrument Fund.
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Pirastro Young Artist (Echoarts Munich, 2021) and holder of the Swiss Government 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.
photo credit: Pippa Sieppala
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.
photo credit: Ellen O'Connell
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.
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.
Since April 2026 Margherita plays on an instrument by O. Möckel made in Berlin in 1906 thanks to the generous support of the Swiss Instrument Fund.