floraleda sacchi
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Floraleda Sacchi, from Como, graduated in harp at Como Conservatory, and then exercised with Alice Giles (Frankfurt), Alice Chalifoux (Salzedo School, Camden, USA) and with Judy Loman (Toronto University).
From 1996 to 2003, she won the remarkable number of 16 international competitions, both as soloist and in chamber music ensembles (Concours UFAM, GMI, Premio Galbiati, TIM, Rovere d'oro, F. Schubert, Toronto Concerto Competition, etc.).
Interested in the solo repertoire and in harp chamber music, she started her concert carrier when she was very young, performing as soloist all over the world in major halls and festivals: Klang-Bogen - Wien, Perugia Classico, Amici del Teatro alla Scala and Sala Verdi - Milan, Teatro Valle - Rome, Lamspringer September, Hypo-Kunsthalle - Munich, Jujiya Hall - Tokyo, Concert Hall - Kyoto, Teatro di Lima - Peru, Emirates Palace - Abu Dhabi, Salle Varese - Lyon, Concerts de la Croix Rouge - Geneva, Rosengart Stiftung - Lucerne, Gessler Hall - Vancouver, Glenn Gould Studio - Toronto, etc.
She holds concerts with the pedal harp, the Celtic harp and the electric harp, and has also played the precious historical harps of the Victor Salvi Foundation. She has worked widely with the Aeolian Harp Duo, with flutist Claudio Ferrarini, fortepianist Marco Cadario, the Arion String Quartet, several singers, and with the Allegro Ensemble. In the past few years, interested in finding a more personal way to play music, she has commissioned, transcribed and composed new music giving birth to new projects such as "Minimal Harp", "Ba-rock" or the cd "Chiaroscuro".
She attends radio and television broadcasts of the major international channels (RAI, Mediaset, RSI, ORF, Dutch Radio, BBC, Radio France etc.), and she often collaborates with actors in theatre shows. She has accompanied, among others, Umberto Ceriani, Moni Ovadia, Silvano Piccardi, and she currently “talks” by music with Ottavia Piccolo in monologue "Donna non rieducabile". She often plays, under the stars, Madam Vhd Vhd, in the "Viaggio sulla Luna" (Travel to the Moon), a show created by her for the Milan Planetarium.
Some composers who dedicated original pieces to her are: Peter Machajdik, Nicola Campogrande, Paolo Castaldi, David Clarck Little, Dimitri Nicolau, Gianluca Cangemi, Jean Chatillon, Luis Berenguer.
In the past 8 years she recorded 15 CDs for Decca (for which she has been recording with exclusive right since 2008), Philips, Tactus, Aulia, Stradivarius, Adnarim, Multimedia, Cni.
Floraleda Sacchi regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, the United States and Canada (Parma Conservatory, Accademia Europea di Musica, British Columbia University etc.).
Since 2006 she is the promoter and artistic director of the LakeComo Festival.
An eclectic artist, Flora is also a composer: in 2007 iTunes published a CD exclusively containing compositions of hers, for which the German critic Tobias Fisher compared her to Rachmaninov. She studied musicology, and from 1999 to today she has written several articles appeared on the main specialist journals (American Harp Journal, Harpa, World Harp Congress Review), and she has managed dozens of music editions for Amadeus Arte and Ranieri e Alfieri Publishing. When she was 21 years old, she won the Harpa Award (Prague, 1999) for her book on Elias Parish Alvars (Odilia Publishing). Still in the literary field, some of her writings have been published by editor PulcinoElefante.
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