Vasily Barkhatov 
Aleksei Isaev
Thorsten Grümbel
Sergey PolyakovKünstlerdetails
DirigentGianna Fratta  |
Biographie / biography
Graduated in piano and composition with highest honours and in conducting (10/10 cum laude) at the “N. Piccinni” Music Conservatory in Italy, she was awarded the diploma of honour at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena during the course led by the Russian conductor Yuri Ahronovitch. He wrote about Gianna “I’ve never known a musician so gifted with heart and arms”.
She started her career as pianist winning a lot of international piano competitions and playing both in Italy and abroad; her public conducting debut took place in 1998. Since then she has regularly been conducting in the symphonic and operatic repertoires. She conducted such orchestras as Berliner Symphoniker, Macao Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra della RAI di Torino, Toscanini Orchestra in Parma, Orchestra of the Opera Theatre in Rome, Orchestra Fondazione Arena di Verona, Orchestra of the Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari, Russian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Besancon France-Comtè, ORT (Orchestra Regionale Toscana in the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago), Orchestre de l’Ille de France, Royal Accademy Orchestra in London, Cappella Istropolitana in Bratislava, National Orchestra of Kiev, North Czech Philharmonic of Teplice, Orchestra La Verdi in Milan, Prime Philharmonic Orchestra of Seoul, Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo, Dubuque Simphony Orchestra (USA), Simphonic Orchestra of Greensboro (USA), Orchestra of the Theatre of Maribor, Belgrade, Skopje, Split, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, Simphonic Orchestra of Lebanon, Orchestra of the State of Mexico, Sinfonica of Hong Kong and many others.
As pianist or conductor she performs in a lot of cities (New York, London, Sidney, Seoul, Barcellona, Istanbul, Berlin, Stoccolma, Vilnius, Roma, Milano, Bruxelles, Besancon, Tirana, Budapest, Haifa, Lion, Belgrade, Mumbay, Kolkatta, Prague, Nancy, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Dubuque ecc.) in theatres such as Carnegie Hall of New York, Teatro Coliseo of Buenos Aires, Teatro Solis of Montevideo, Seoul Art Center, Smetana Hall of Prague, Teatro Sao Pedro of Sao Paulo, Teatro dell’Opera of Rome, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and many others all over the world. She collaborated with many artists like Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, David Garrett, Mirella Freni, Carla Fracci, Renato Bruson, Daniele Abbado, Raina Kabaiwanska, François Thiollier, Cecilia Gasdia, Cloe Hanslip ecc.
She records for Sony, Brilliant Classic, Arcana, “N&A”, Velut Luna, Amadeus, Bongiovanni, Mondadori, Classica HD both as pianist and conductor.
Graduated in law, she is a professor of composition in the “U. Giordano” Music Conservatory of Foggia; she was visiting professor in Sunghshin women’s university in Seoul (South Korea), and she did many master classes in many universities in the world (Bocconi in Milan, Notre Dame University in Lebanon, University of Montevideo - Uruguay, ecc).
On 7th March 2009 the President of Italian Republic gave her the prize "In honour of merit" for her international career attributing to her the honour of Knight of the Italian Republic.
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