Programme
The course is aimed at harpists interested in learning or deepening their knowledge of harp technique and repertoire in the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods.
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Main course: Double Harp. The course is open to all (level: beginners, intermediate, advanced).
For students who have no practice with historical harps, there is a specific introduction to the instrument and its technique.
For intermediate and advanced students, a specific programme can be presented, which must be communicated to the teacher immediately after enrolment in the course.
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Simple-movement harp: introduction to the main treatises and repertoires of the classical period, and specific focus on the repertoire agreed with the students.
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Instruments: an instrument will be provided for lessons and individual study (divided among the students), while those who wish to attend group courses are required to bring their own harp.
Bio
Chiara is an Italian harpist. After completing traditional studies at Milan Conservatoire G.Verdi she has specialized in Baroque performance. She studied with Mara Galassi, achieving her degree both in triple harp and single action harp at the International Academy of Music of Milan and the degree in triple harp, grade 110/110 cum laude, at Conservatorio Dall’Abaco of Verona.
She works regularly with many leading early music groups: La Venexiana, (C.Cavina), I Turchini, Napoli (A.Florio), Ensemble Costanzo Porta, Cremona (A.Greco), Gusto Barocco, Stoccarda (J. Halubek), Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlino (R. Jacobs), La Lira di Orfeo (R.Pe), Cappella Mediterranea (L.G. Alarcón), l’Academia Montis Regalis, Mondovì (A. De Marchi), l’Ensemble Matheus, Brest (J.C.Spinosi), Los Musicos de su Alteza, Saragoza (L.A.Gonzales), Collegium 1713, Praga (Vaclav Lucks), Il Pomo d’Oro (F.Corti), Stile Galante (S.Aresi), Concentus Musicus, Vienna (S.Gottfried), Le Concert des Nations (J.Savall).
She has recorded for Eloquentia, Hyperion, Stradivarius, Dynamic, Glossa, Alpha, Sony, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, ResonusClassic, Tactus. Eloquentia, K617, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Claves. Publications include the solo project: Haydn & the harp, Glossa 2019, and the recent album: Harpa Romana, Arcana 2024;.
She has performed in several theaters and concert halls around Europe and US includin: Concertghebow Amsterdam, Cité de la musique and Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris; Berlin Staatsoper in Schillertheatre, Sanssouci Palace in Postdam, Innsbruck Tiroler Landestheater, Madrid Auditorio Nacional de Mùsica, Palau de la Musica de Valencia; Seville Maestranza Theatre, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Le Quartz Theatre in Brest, The Helicon Foundation New York; Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Olimpico; Teatro Mercadante and Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Verdi in Pisa; Teatro Carignano Turin, and Teatro Bibbiena in Mantua, Teatro Olimpico in Vincenza; Wigmorehall in London; Staatsoper in Wien.
Recent projects include the chamber music programme ‘Maurice Ravel: Inspiration &Métamorphoses’ with Jordi Savall (2024).
Chiara read also Philosophy with distinction at Milan University with a thesis on Baroque aesthetics in the Philosophy of R. Descartes. She received the academy prize ‘Dal Pra’ 1998 for the best research in modern philosophy. Among her recent publications: ‘Le ombre, il chiaro e il distinto: l’esperienza musicale nelle pagine di Descartes’, (’Materiali di Estetica’, 2001); and the book Sapere è un verbo all’infinito (with A. Granata and E. Granata, Il Margine, Trento 2013); «Un’arpa grande tutta intagliata e dorata. New documents on the Barberini harp», Recercare, XXVII 1-2, 2015, and M.Galassi C.Granata, Tanto che non si potrebbe sentire cosa più bella. The harp as basso continuo instrument in Rome at the time of Orazio Michi, «Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis», Vol.39, 2020; L'arpa doppia, lo stile italiano e l'autunno del madrigale. Alcune fonti di area tedesca (Wolfang Caspar Printz, Canzonetten und andere Musikstücke, 1679), “Recercare”, LIM, 34 (2022).