Gloria Campaner (Piano/Italy)
With grace and beauty, Gloria Campaner walks onto international stages leaving behind
her unique moments of profound, human truth. She is an artist distinctively recognizedfor her multiple talents. Her passionate commitment to music and its social value, haveestablished her among the finest young Italian concert pianists, as well as a devoted
human rights activist and beloved professor.
Her vast repertoire spans from Bach to modern, contemporary composers. Her innovative
performances place her side by side with jazz and folk musicians as well as ballet,choreographers, modern dancers, visual artists, actors, philosophers, comedians, DJs andelectronic music producers, making her one of the most eclectic and versatile pianists ofher generation.
Born in the Venetian inlands, Gloria has received more than twenty national andinternational first prizes. Since her debut at the age of twelve with the Venice SymphonyOrchestra, her rapidly advancing career as a soloist and chamber musician, has led her tobe a guest of some of the most prestigious festivals all over the world. International press
has praised Gloria’s ‘extremely deep musicality, remarkable fluidity, nuancing and senseof style which put her in the ranks of pianists with exceptional qualities’ (Walter Arlen,Los Angeles Times).
Gloria Campaner is a laureate of international competitions such as the Paderewski
International Piano Competition in Los Angeles (Silver Medal, Best Paderewski andChopin performances), the Ibla Grand Prize (First Prize, Prokofiev Special Award), theXI Concours International de Musique du Maroc in Casablanca (Prix de Jury, FranzLiszt), and the Cultural Foundation Pro Europa in Freiburg (European Prize forCulture).
In the years 2011-12 she was nominated ‘Ambassador of Culture’ from the EU for theproject ‘Piano: reflet de la culture européenne’ , she was awarded a scholarship from theJohannes Brahms Foundation in Baden – Baden and had been the first Italian female
pianist ever awarded a fellowship by the London’s Borletti – Buitoni Trust (2014).
Her training is rooted in the best international pedagogical traditions through Bruno
Mezzena, Konstantin Bogino, and Fany Solter with whom she gained her ‘konzert examen- Diplom ‘at the HFM of Karlsruhe in Germany. Gloria has also been selected toparticipate in masterclasses by Jerome Rose, Sergio Perticaroli, Pavel Gililov, Lilya
Zilberstein, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Boris Petrushansky.
After her Carnegie Hall débuts in 2010, Gloria’s music making has gained a recognizedworld-wide status. Recent highlights include tours in all the continents: Europe, China,Japan, South Africa, Armenia, Lebanon, USA, Israel, Latin America, India, Easter
Island, and even Myanmar where she performed for a charity event in one of the firstpublic concert after the end of the national dictatorship.

Gloria’s charismatic musicianship and devotion for chamber music has created numerous
artistic collaborations across the globe with musicians such as Johannes Moser, Ivry
Gitlis, Ana Chumachenco, Michael Kugel, Sergei Krylov, Quartetto di Cremona, Azahar
Ensemble, Borusan Quartet, Angela Hewitt to name a few and as well as with principal
soloists of most prestigious orchestras (Berliner Philharmonic , La Scala Philharmony,
National Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Roma, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ofAmsterdam, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera of New York).
She’s been resident artist at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival (Ireland) and at theMarlboro Festival (Vermont USA – in 2017 and 2019) where she works alongside withpianists such as Leon Fleisher and Mitsuko Uchida.
Beginning from a high school rock band, Gloria Campaner has explored new artistic
horizons resulting in exciting collaborations with world-renowned jazz pianists Franco
D’Andrea, Stefano Bollani, Leszek Możdżer and with the exhilarating music comedians
Igudesman & Joo. Furthermore, her affinity for dance, led her to work with Dutch
choreographer Joost Vrouenraets and the Gotra Ballet in the Netherlands and in Rome
Teatro Olimpico for the world première of the shows ‘Heroes Quest’ and ‘Program HQ’.
Widely present in the multi-media world and its artistic expressions, Gloria’s concerts areoften accompanied by works of very refined visual artists and broadcast in national public
radios and televisions (RAI, BBC, SKY, CNN, RSI, ClassicFM). A full documentary about
her was released in 2013 by RAI5 for the TV program ‘Petruska ‘ and she was one of theprotagonists of the art documentary for SKY Arte “The Heart of Stone”, directed by Luca
Scarzella, inspired by compositions of Scrjabin and dedicated to the ‘sounding stones’ of
the great sardinian artist Pinuccio Sciola from whom she directly learned how to play his‘singing sculptures’ . She is also committed to artistic collaborations in the fields ofclassical/electronic fusion, and with contemporary composer such as Wolfgang Rhim, Jörg
Widmann, Rodion Schedrin and Giya Kantcheli. Recent premières include new works
dedicated to her by Márton Illés, Marcello Abbado, Vittorio Montalti and GiovanniSollima.
In September 2014, she was the first classical music DJ to collaborate with speaker andwebcaster Alessio Bertallot in Milan – playing records of great classical music for millions
of followers who heard this music for the first time. In 2016, together with DJ andproducer Francesco Leali and poli-instrumentalist Alessandro Branca she founded theelectronic group OPUS3000 with whom she released a new LP called ‘Benevolence’ in
2017. In that same year their project won the national SIAE award of ‘première works’ inItaly.
Gloria’s debut CD “Piano Poems” of solo piano works by Schumann and Rachmaninov
was released in 2013 (EMI). An orchestral CD was published in 2016 by Warner Classics
containing her live concert debut with RAI National Orchestra & Juraj Valčuha and theSecond Piano Concerto of Rachmaninoff, and for the same label the latest album “HOME”
released in November 2018 recorded with the Filarmonica della Fenice conducted byJohn Axelrod at Gran Teatro La Fenice of Venice, dedicated to her favorite composer
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen op. 15 and Piano Concerto op. 54.

Recent and future highlights include collaborations with RTSI Orchestra in Lugano,English Chamber Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmony, Süd-Deutsche Philharmonie,Seoul Philharmony, AfiA Orchestra of Tokyo, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra,
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra… together with appearances in most prestigious
venues of the world such as London’s Cadogan Hall, Los Angeles Philharmony, Salzburg
Mozarteum, NCPA Beijing, Kioi Hall Tokyo, Paris Salle Cortot, Warsaw & Krakow
Philharmony, Vilnius Philharmonie, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, and manyothers. This present season gave her other new challenging collaborations: with visualartist Natan Sinigaglia and his instant graphic design system video installations for theworld premiere show ‘Mousike’ commissioned by the Quartetto Society of Milan ; with
one of most recognized Italian actors Luigi Lo Cascio for the Verona’s Festival della
Bellezza and with movie director Philippe Caland as pianist and actress in his
indipendent movie ‘the Butterfly Confirmation’ ( Los Angeles, 2017).
The “Dafne” project, on tour in March 2019, dedicated to the theme of feminicide andviolence against women, is on its way to next production, together with the English
violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and the Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni conducted byDomenico Mason. The project includes the piece DAFNE dedicated to Gloria Campaner,
composed by Mario Pagotto.
In Italy she’s a regular guest in the main Festivals and Concert Institutions of thecountry and she had been invited to perform at the International Women’s Day by thePresident of Republic Giorgio Napolitano on worldwide TV streaming and broadcast.
Gloria is also a very passionate lecturer around the world, regularly offering music
courses and piano masterclasses for international Universities (Columbia University in
New York City, University of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela University of Port Elizabeth,Tokyo Music College, Stockholm Royal Academy, Beijing International Music Academy,
University of Maastricht , UniRio (Brazil), Mimar Sinan University (Instanbul), and AAF
Academy in Mexico City). In 2019 she also founded her own educational project named
C# – See Sharp: a creativity workshop for young musicians and performing artists.
Sharing emotions and positive energy through music has always been a fundamental goalin Gloria’s art, and she is deeply involved in charity, social and music-awareness projects
around the world. On her international tours she takes time to meet students andchildren, visit hospitals, schools and orphanages, disadvantaged communities, townships
and favelas.
In Italy Gloria is part of the ‘Donatori di Musica’ which brings classical music toterminally-ill patients in oncological hospitals, she’s supporting the children of Cometa
foundation (Como) and she’s also passionately supporting ‘Musica con le Ali’ scouting thenew musical talents of the country.
In 2018 Gloria Campaner was nominated artistic director of the concert series of theAssociazione Vincenzo Bellini in Messina and she was appointed piano professor at theNelson Mandela University of Port Elizabeth (South Africa).
Official Website

http://www.gloriacampaner.com