Harpist Floraleda Sacchi: Prizes and Distinctions

Press Kit > Reviews and Interviews

It was interesting to listen to Floraleda Sacchi, soloist with a symphonic orchestra in a piece [Pizzetti's Harp Concerto] that exploits all her lyrical qualities and her impressive powerful sound.
Nordkurier

The young Italian harpist Floraleda Sacchi revealed a harp virtuoso. She seduced the audience with her clear and brilliant performance, which embraced three centuries of repertoire.
Johann Vollmar, Oberbadisches Volksblatt

Floraleda Sacchi bewitches the soul.
Irene Krieger, Maerkische Allgemeine Zeitung

Floraleda Sacchi has technical qualities and interpretation depth. The main traits of her mastery are her fast and sure fingers and her sound always full and round.
Bernardo Pieri, Il Resto del Carlino

The concert [at Carnegie Hall - Weill Recital Hall] was nearly a musical ecstasy.
A. Ciappino, America Oggi

Floraleda Sacchi created impressive sonorities; the technical aspects were excellent as well as the sound floating from ethereal athmospheres to full and powerful effects. The audience was enthusiast.
D.M., Il Giorno

Floraleda Sacchi performed performed beautifully a really virtuoso program.
A.C., La Provincia

Comments

Ms. Sacchi's outstanding quality is her mature and intelligent musicality, a rare and valuable asset on the harp. She has a beautiful tone, a compelling stage presence and a sure technique in the service of the music.
Alice Giles harp teacher at the Camberra School of Music (Australian National University)

I enjoyed working with Floraleda Sacchi on several occasions. She is an intelligent and well rounded musician. An excellent harpist, her musical and technical capabilities are at a high level and she plays with artistry and commitment.
Judy Loman, harp professor (Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, USA)

Floraleda Sacchi has an excellent facility.
Alice Chalifoux, harp professor and director at the Salzedo School (Camden, Maine, USA)

Floraleda Sacchi is an accomplished harpist with a dynamic personality. She is energic, intelligent, enthusiastic and original. I am confident that these qualities contribute greatly to her success.
Judith Liber artistic director International Harp Contest, Israel

CD Reviews

[In Minimal Harp] Sacchi has a convincing way with these varied works, giving each their due in terms of tonal color and rhythmic emphasis, while suggesting implicit similarities. This is a seductive, rather than flamboyant, recital that offers surprising, albeit subtle, rewards to the open-minded listener.
Art Lange, Fanfare

"Minimal Harp" is absolutely wonderful!!
Marvin Rosen, Classical Discoveries

The search for essentiality pushed Floraleda Sacchi to record "Minimal Harp": A collection of pieces to dream in a CD that will appeal all lovers of cross-over.
Giorgio Vitali, Famiglia Cristiana

"Minimal Harp" gives a physical pleasure before still the intellectual one (but... are the two aspects separate?), and it demonstrates how much is still immense and inexhaustible the space offered to originality and to the free and authentic research. You are a great artist.
Quirino Principe, journalist and Accademico di Santa Cecilia

The way Floraleda performs Philip Glass goes beyond the wonder. The piece that Nicola Campogrande has composed for her is brilliant. [In "Minimal Harp"] there are American, Slovak, Nordic and Italian composers, Oriental inspirations and Western experiments, pieces of 1912 and unknown ones recently composed. Nevertheless, at the end, the impression that the CD communicates is not the usual boring and chaotic multiethnical melting pot. The project is perfectly harmonized and far away from every known thing, nearly an encounter with Flora, a creature of another dimension who has stolen all the music of the world to play it in a new way and with her curiosity and ability.
Tommaso Labranca per Acid Jazz

"Minimal Harp" presents compositions which caress the ear and, at the same time, are technically demanding and with complex means that Floraleda succeeds perfectly to express and to transmit. Her great bravura is in making to seem easy what instead it is intensely complex.
C.P., Il Corriere della Sera

Some of "Minimal Harp" performances sound more representative than ever – I'm pretty sure fans of Glass, Cage and Pärt will be stunned by these renditions.
Tokafi Magazine

It is one of the best known harpist in the world, thanks to her bravura. Recenty she realized "Minimal Harp", distributed all over the world from Decca, a truly beautiful and fascinating CD.
Alessio Brunialti, La Provincia

The new CD of Italian harpist Floraleda Sacchi for Decca label is a fascinating program all dedicated to 20th century and contemporary repertoire.
Gabriele Formenti, CD Classico

"Minimal Harp" is a harp alone project, shining and clear and a collection of music which is a dream of minimalism.
Gloria Chiappani Rodichevski, Morfoedro

The harp and contemporary music, a tight relationship, as it demonstrates the new CD, "Minimal Harp", of harpist Floraleda Sacchi. She performs this repertoire with powerfull sound and incisive technique.
Luca Pavanel, Il Giornale

With "Suite en Duo" one thinks there are still CDs worth to buy, even just for the expressive use of harp and flute. Just after the first listening one realizes both instruments are played by expert performers. Two musicians who think before playing.
Giumart for Caffe' Letterario

Rachmaninoff springs to mind as a composer who was equally accomplished as a performer. It makes no sense comparing his work to that of Floraleda Sacchi, of course. But the mere fact that the CD "Chiaroscuro" has ended up more than just a dignified composing exercise certainly does not make it seem entirely out of place either.
Tobias Fisher on Tokafi.com

I try to express my feelings after the first listening of your recording of "Krumpholtz's Sonatas" in a single phrase: the effect of your playing is magical. Your art is able to transport the listener in a higher state of mind and emotion.
Quirino Principe, journalist and Accademico di Santa Cecilia

Interviews

Classicvillage.net (January 2010)

Suonare (March 2009)

Il Corriere (February 2009)

Interview for Radio inBlu - Sat 2000 (08-02-09) >>>

Interview for ClassicaOnline

Interview with Paolo Prato for Radioinblu (MP3)

Interview for Tokafi (May 2007)

Intervista per RadioClassica (June 2007)

Giornale di Erba (September 2007)

Interview for El Carrete

Interview for RadioVaticana (MP3)