Biography
The pianist Aglaia Tarantino is much in demand as a chamber musician and accompanist in her native Milan and in London where she now lives.
She won many national and international competitions whilst studying with Vincenzo Balzani in Milan before moving to London for postgraduate study with Clifford Benson and Ian Brown at the Royal Academy of Music.
Aglaia was awarded the `M. A. Garrett` and `Wilfred Parry prizes` at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and at the Conservatorio `G. Verdi` in Milan she won the `Premio Beltrami`, the `Premio Ferrero` and a special prize for the best piano accompanist in the `Premio Cilea` . Other prizes in Italy include the `Premio Schubert` , the `Premio Tortona and the `Citta` di Asti` prize.
Further advanced studt was undertaken with Hans Fazzari, Vitaly Margulis, Alexander Lonquich, Jan Philip Schulze and Aglaia attended the International Chamber Music Academy “Trio di Trieste” ( Duino – Italy ) studying with D. de Rosa, R. Zanettovich.
Aglaia has performed as a guest artist with contemporary ensembles all over Europe giving many premières. Chamber performances have taken her to many important festivals in Italy, elsewhere in Europe and also as far Japan and Egypt. She is a regular duo partner with flautist Andrea Manco and viola player Paul Silverthorne.
As a soloist she has played with several orchestras in Italy , “Giuseppe Verdi” Symphony Orchestra in Milan ( cond. R. Polanstri ), “G.B.Sammartini” Orchestra ( cond. F.Borali ) and “Piccola Sinfonica” di Milano ( cond. S.M.Lucarelli) and has given premières of important new chamber music works.
As a teacher and accompanist Aglaia has worked at many prestigious establishments in London; the Royal Academy of Music, Central School of Speech and Drama` , `The Theme Music School` and in Italy, Accademia `Associazione Musicale Preziosi` in Turin , Teatro Politeama in Catanzaro.
A new CD of 20C flute music with Andrea Manco (principal flute at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Noord Netherlands Orkest) will be released in 2011 , distributed on iTunes.com and Amazon.com.
