The bassist, composer, performer and visual artist starts her new role in September 2023
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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance has announced the appointment of Valentina Ciardelli as professor in its strings department, starting this autumn 2023. Ciardelli is an alumna of Trinity Laban, where she studied with double bassist Leon Bosch and served as his teaching assistant.
Ciardelli began her musical studies as a pianist and started to play double bass in in 2010. She graduated from the Istituto Musicale L. Boccherini in Lucca in 2014, going on to receive a master’s degree at the Royal College of Music in 2016. Further studies at Trinity Laban saw Ciardelli receive scholarships from Trinity College London and the Leverhulme Trust. She was awarded Trinity Laban’s Carne Trust Junior Fellowship from 2018 to 2019.
Ciardelli’s accolades and competition success include first prize in the RCM Double Bass Competition 2016, the Vernon Elliot Double bass Competition 2018, the Vivian Joseph Classical Concerto Competition 2018, String Category and the De Simone and Partners prize in the Chamber Music Festival in Rome. She also won a place with a scholarship in the Accademia Chigiana in summer 2018 with maestro Giuseppe Ettorre.
She has participated in the Gustav Mahler Academy in 2016 as well as the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s training scheme. In 2019, she enjoyed an artist residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and has since given solo performances in venues such as Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Argentina in Rome and London’s St. Martin’s in the Fields and Wigmore Hall.
Ciardelli has served on the jury at the 2023 International Society of Bassists (ISB) competition, youth solo division. With harpist Anna Astesano, she is a member of ’The Girls in the Magnesium Dress’, a duo dedicated to performing and promoting new repertoire for harp and double bass. She is the founder of the ’How I met Puccini’, creating arrangements of Puccini opera arias for double bass and other instruments.
She plays a 2014 Scipioni bass made in Mantua.
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Originally a pianist, she started to play double bass in in 2010, graduating with Honours from the Istituto Musicale L. Boccheriniopens in a new window in Lucca in October 2014. She then gained her Master of Performance (Honours) at the Royal College of Musicopens in a new window in July 2016 and continued further studies under the guidance of Leon Boschopens in a new window at Trinity Laban, where she was the recipient of scholarships from Trinity College Londonopens in a new window and the Leverhulme Trustopens in a new window. In 2018/19, Valentina was awarded Trinity Laban’s Carne Trust Junior Fellowshipopens in a new window for an Individual.
Valentina has won several awards and prizes including first prize in the RCM Double Bass Competition 2016, the Vernon Elliot Double bass Competition 2018, the Vivian Joseph Classical Concerto Competition 2018, String Category and the De Simone and Partners prize in the Chamber Music Festival in Rome. Valentina also won a place with a scholarship in the Accademia Chigiana for summer 2018 with Maestro Giuseppe Ettorre.
She was finalist in important national and international competitions such as the Migliori Diplomati D’Italia (best young Italian music graduate) 2015 and double bass international competition Galicia Garcia Graves. She was selected with other sixteen young double bass players around the world to perform in the live final rounds at the worldwide double bass solo competition granted by Bradetich Foundationopens in a new window in Denton, Texas, at the end of August 2017.
Valentina also won several orchestral auditions such as Gustav Mahler Academy 2016 and BBC SO training scheme. She recently won the Artist in Residence at the BANFF, Alberta (Canada)opens in a new window that hosted her from 15 – 28 September 2019. She gave solo performances with I solisti veneti with M. Claudio Scimone. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in world renowned concert halls such as Teatro La Feniceopens in a new window in Venice, Teatro Argentinaopens in a new window in Rome, St Martin in the Fieldsopens in a new window in London.
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