Stella Canocchi
Violin
Stella Canocchi showed a passion for music from early childhood. At the age of six she began studying piano and at nine violin, performing while still very young as a soloist with orchestra, accompanied by the ensemble “Archi della Rosa” in A. Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor and by the orchestra “Giovani Archi d’Europa” in L’Estate by A. Vivaldi, conducted by Maestro Raffaele Napoli.
She trained at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Violin with highest honours and distinction, as well as a Master’s degree in Chamber Music with top marks, honours, and special mention. Over the years, she further refined her skills at leading international institutions and with distinguished professors, including Marco Fiorentini, Ilya Grubert, Eliot Lawson, Marco Fiorini, Roberto Galletto, Massimo Quarta, Adrian Pinzaru, Yair Kless, Felix Ayo, and Lewis Kaplan of the Juilliard School in New York.
She was recently admitted to the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (Germany) for a Master’s programme in Violin under Maestro Aleksey Semenenko.
Winner of numerous national and international competitions, she maintains an active concert career both as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber ensembles, performing in Italy and abroad, including Brazil, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
In 2021 she joined the chamber orchestra of the Gonfalone in Rome, and in the same summer she won a scholarship at the second edition of the EOS International Chamber Music Festival in Ventotene, where she performed with Maestros Alessandro Dejanav and Adrian Pinzaru. She has also appeared on several television and radio broadcasts, including “La Barcaccia” on RAI Radio 3, as a prizewinner of major international competitions. In collaboration with the Emilia Romagna Festival, she performed in Germany at the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz advanced music academy.
She has appeared as soloist with numerous symphonic and chamber orchestras, including Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 K. 219 with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Mediterranean, the European Youth Orchestra “Bella Musica” of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the UFBA Symphony Orchestra of the Brazilian state of Bahia conducted by Maestro José Mauricio Brandão, and the G. Tartini Orchestra conducted by Maestro V. Mariozzi. She has also performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto Op. 64 with the Senior Cecilian Orchestra conducted by Maestro Matteo Bettinelli.
She is currently a violin professor at the “A. Vivaldi” Conservatory of Music in Alessandria.
