BIOGRAPHY

Vittoria began her clarinet studies at Conservatorio G. Cantelli of Novara, in the class of Sandro Tognatti. Later she obtained her master’s degree in Clarinet Performance cum laude from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she had been a recipient of the DoRa+ and the EMTA merit-based scholarships. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree in the same Academy, with a research of period clarinet affordances, taking part regularly in international conferences.

During her studies she took part into masterclasses with renowned clarinettist, such as Yehuda Gilad, Fabrizio Meloni, Calogero Palermo, Giuseppe Gentile, Hermann Stefansson. She was awarded the “Young Talent” prize by the “Associazione Musicale i Cavalieri” at the clarinet masterclass of Fabrizio Meloni in 2019.

Vittoria appeared as a soloist at the opening ceremony of the new Concert Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in September 2019, where she performed the “Concerto Grosso” by Eino Tamberg conducted by Arvo Volmer.

She is interested in chamber music and contemporary music, and she played with different ensembles in music festivals and concert series such as the Aurora Stockholm Music Festival 2017, “Ottobre Culturale Gravellonese 2019”, “Verbania Musica 2019”, Afekt 2019, SügiFest 2019 and 2020, and MüriaadFEST 2020, 2022, 2023. Vittoria premiered various new music works.

She performed with Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica Carlo Coccia, Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala, MYO-Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi. Currently she is second clarinet at the Estonian National Opera Orchestra.

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ACADEMIC CV

CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS

30th September 2023, I.S.S.M. “Vecchi-Tonelli”, Modena: I Conferenza ANDA-AFAM. Presenting "Metodologie ibride per la ricerca artistica". Read the abstract on page 31.
30th August-1st September 2023, Royal Academy of Music, London: Doctors in Performance Conference. Presenting: "Developing musical flexibility through the practice of period instruments”.
6th-10th March 2023, Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome: RAPP Lab 6 on “Conscious Improvisation: a deep and functional approach”. Learn more on RAPP Lab 6 here.
2nd-3rd February 2023, Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome: guest lecturer in Artistic Research for the Master program “AReMus – Artistic Research in Music”.
18th-20th April 2023, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Facoltà di Musicologia, Cremona: Musicology in Progress Conference. Presenting: “Developing musical flexibility through the practice of period instruments”. Read the abstract on page 23.
16th November 2022, Orpheus Institute, Ghent: Conference of Doctoral Students "Serendipity - The Unsought Discovery". Presenting: "Shifting perspective: the unexpected affordances of period clarinet".
19th-23rd September 2022, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn: RAPP Lab 5 “Exploring Musical Identities: Autoethnography”. Lecturer in a seminar on autoethnographic interviewing and a seminar on autoethnographic writing. Learn more on RAPP Lab 5 here.
30th May-3rd June 2022, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna: RAPP Lab 4 “Transculturality in Artistic Research”. Learn more on RAPP Lab 4.
5th-7th May 2022, Latvian Academy of Music, Riga: Conference “Artistic Research: various fields, approaches, experiences”. Presenting “Art and Rigour: Designing experimenting processes for Artistic Research. Read the abstract on page 30.
15th-16th April 2022, Casa da Música, Porto: Xperimus2022 Forum on Experimentation in Music. Presenting “Art and Rigour: Designing experimenting processes for Artistic Research”. Read the abstract on page 30
1st-3rd September 2021, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn: Doctors in Performance Conference. Presenting “Art and Rigour: a personal path in adapting methodologies for Artistic Research”.
1st-5th February 2021. Online event: ESCOM Cross-European Winter School On Musical Ability.
25th-27th January 2021, Tallinn University, Tallinn: X Winter School of GSCSA. Presenting “The evolution of virtuosity as part of the expression: a case study based on Iwan Müller’s Clarinet Quartets”. Read the abstract here.

PUBLICATIONS

Ecclesia, V., 2023. "Art and Rigour: Creating Methods for Artistic Research in Music" - Culture Crossroads. pp. 12-21. Full article here.