about
Anthropologist documentary filmmaker
After graduating in architecture in Venice, she has mainly focused on research and enhancement of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. For several years now, she has been dedicated to ethnographic research, working alongside historians, ethnomusicologists, and documentary filmmakers, as well as independently collaborating with various organizations. She has produced several audiovisual works mainly related to animal husbandry and dairy farming, chestnut cultivation, and craftsmanship, and collected various life stories and interviews on hunting activities, forest management, and mining work. Her first documentary, "Noura Saied and the peasant life of southern Egypt," the only work she submitted to a competition, was selected and screened at the Ischia Film Festival in 2014. In 2016, she graduated from the Ethnofilm Documentary Cinema School in Monselice under the guidance, among others, of RAI documentary filmmaker Luigi di Gianni and sound engineer Francesco Liotard. In March 2020, she graduated with honors in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna with a thesis entitled "From Father to Son: Knowledge Embedded in the Mountain Culture of Valtrompia," supervised by Professor Francesca Sbardella. Participation in the Pogmahon Company International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Villa Farsetti, Santa Maria di Sala, VE, (IT) May 2023.
She has recently completed the documentary "Le mani nere" (The Black Hands) about the arms-making tradition in Brescia. She is participating in the "Cultura Italia" project for a participatory film "Borgo Ergo Sum" under the direction of director Enzo Aronica. For over a year, she has been documenting the work of a marble sculptor for the upcoming documentary titled "Beyond the Stone: Gianpietro Moretti, Sculptor."
Pianist
Graduated in piano from the Conservatory of Music in Brescia under the guidance of Maestro Sergio Marengoni and with a degree from the Catholic University with a thesis in theoretical philosophy on the Brescian philosopher Emanuele Severino.
Passionate about playing since the age of nine, she dedicates herself with equal enthusiasm to reading, art, and all things "beautiful." She loves making music with friends and interpreting less-performed pieces.
She has recorded two CDs of solo piano pieces by the Navan composer P. Ugoletti, published by Kelidon and Phoenix. In 2000, she participated in the contemporary music showcase of the Brescia and Bergamo Piano Festival and played for several years with the Trio and String Quartet of the Rome Opera.
She is a piano accompanist and piano teacher at the "V. Gambara" Music High School in Brescia.
Performer and photographer
Graduated in Educational Sciences, with a thesis in anthropology, then graduated as Photographic Image Technician at the R. Rossellini Cine-TV Institute in Rome. She lived for many years in Rome and Spain where she participated in various art and photography exhibitions. Her approach is multidisciplinary, related to anthropology, topicality and literature.
"Space of resonance, art, culture and entertainment in Brescia during the pandemic", April 2023 - April 2024 traveling photographic exhibition, part of the Bergamo Brescia Capital of Italian Culture 2023 program; "Woman, life and freedom. Locks of hair for the Iranian people", October 2022 Design and collaboration with MaCof, the photography museum of Brescia (IT); Participation in the Pogmahon Company International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Villa Farsetti, Santa Maria di Sala, VE, (IT) May 2023; Collaboration with MoCa, Center for New Cultures of Brescia, collective exhibition and photographic book "WoWomen's Tonalities", by MaCof Center of Italian Photography and Brescia Music Festival, (IT) June 2022; "L’arte della guerra, la guerra dell’arte (The art of war, the war of art), digital collage on gender-based violence: (Transfeminist demonstration 8 March 2021, Brescia (IT), Circolhach, Brescia, (IT) March - October 2021, Stage “gender-based violence”, Brescia Music Festival, (IT) June 2021; "El arte de la guerra, la guerra del arte" (The art of war, the war of art) version in Spanish - Pink Riot Festival, Casa Planas, Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, (ES), March 2020; BCN postcards, Open Night, Barcelona, (ES) December 2016; Collaboration, through anthropological and archival research, in the editorial project "La cittá paesaggio 1925/2015" (The landscape city, 1925/2015) edited by Davide Pagliarini of Newlandscape Bergamo, (IT) 2015; Crew member of the boat Carolin for sea expeditions and curator of artistic workshops co-scientific on marine health, for Clipperton project Catalan Coast, (ES) March -October 2014; "Sacamos vida y arrojamos muerte, el imperialismo del plastico", (We draw life and cast death, the plastic imperialism) digital collage in collaboration with the marine biologist Núria Lahuerta Piñero, for Posidonia Festival, Sitges, (ES) June 2014; "Stesse acque" (Same waters), reportage in Greece during the 2012 crisis, in collaboration with Maria Ferrario and Vera Teodori (Popular documentation centre, Orvieto (IT) April 2013; Occhirossi independent photography festival, Rome (IT) July 2013); "Escape like haven", independent photography festival Occhirossi, Rome July 2011; "Red Thread,' independent photography festival Occhirossi, (Rome May 2010 and Sanpotito Matese July 2010.
Flutist
She attended the Conservatories of Brescia, Venice, and Trento, studying under the guidance of Giampaolo Pretto, the principal flutist of the RAI Orchestra in Turin. Other influential teachers included Michele Marasco, Gabriele Betti, Andrea Oliva for the flute, and Alberto Negroni and Luca Vignali for chamber music. She further refined her musical skills through the participation in numerous masterclasses with Janos Balint, Julien Baudiment, Josè Castellon, Mario Caroli, and continued the studies in the doctoral program at UBC Vancouver with Brenda Fedoruk and Christie Reside. Her career has evolved in the fields of concert performance, teaching, and musical research. She served as the principal flutist in the Chihuahua State Orchestra, Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra, and Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra for more than a decade. Avid chamber performer, she has been involved in projects both nationally and internationally, collaborating with pianists Elisabetta Marcolini, Chiara Rizza, Sunny Qu, Emily Logan, just to name a few. In the final stage of a Doctoral Program in flute performance at UBC Vancouver, her research focuses on embodied techniques applied to flute practice and performing. She has been invited to present her work at prestigious congresses and venues, including "Creativity in Music and the Arts" (GAPS2 - Global Arts and Psychology Seminar) in York, Graz, La Plata, and Melbourne, the Annual ANDA Conference in Modena, Conservatorio di Musica “Orazio Vecchi –Antonio Tonelli”, and the "Doctors in Performance"; Festival conference at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She currently holds the position of flute teacher under Italian Ministry of Education.
With the contribution of Lombarda Marmi, Botticino, Brescia, Italy.
