BEATRICE MAGNANI
Piano
Italian pianist Beatrice Magnani is acclaimed for the sensitivity of her playing and the elegance of her interpretations.
Pursuing an international career as both soloist and chamber musician, she performs regularly in prestigious concert halls and festivals across Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is also a longstanding artistic partner of violinist Sergej Krylov.
Biography
Born in Cremona in 1988, Beatrice Magnani began studying piano at the age of six with the Russian pianist Ludmilla Krylova. She continued her musical education at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola under Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky, before completing her studies at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano with Anna Kravtchenko.
Winner of more than twenty national and international first prizes, including the Piano Campus International Piano Competition in Pontoise, the Marguerite Meister Prize in Zurich and the Bryden Thomson Prize in Glasgow, she quickly established herself as a highly active concert pianist.
She performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in prestigious international venues, including Wigmore Hall in London, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, Sala Verdi in Milan and the Auditorium Stelio Molo of the Radio Svizzera Italiana in Lugano.
A privileged musical partner of Sergej Krylov, she has also collaborated with numerous internationally renowned artists, conductors and orchestras. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Lincoln Center Stage Project, a chamber music programme supported by Lincoln Center in New York.
After teaching at several Italian conservatories, she is currently Professor of Piano Practice at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma.