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Letizia Belmondo
Italy/Belgium
In February 2001, Letizia Belmondo won the First Prize, and the “Esther Herlitz” Special Prize for the best performance of a contemporary piece, in the 14th International Harp Contest in Israel.
Since making her international debut at age of fourteen with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, Ms. Belmondo has won an impressive number of competitions and awards, including the Victor Salvi Competition in 1995, the Società Umanitaria in 1998, the Rovere d’Oro in 1997, the Martine Geliot Prize in the Lille Harp Competition in 1999, the Franz Schubert Competition in 1999, and the International Harp Competition in Lausanne in 2000.
After making her debut at the Wigmore Hall in London, she has performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. In 2002 she recorded her first solo CD (Harp Recital) for “Egan records”. In January 2006 she recorded with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra the Harp Concertos of Glière and Zabel and the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 6, KV238, transcribed for harp.
Since her debut as solist with “Mozart” Orchestra in Italy, she has been invited by Maestro Claudio Abbado to record the Mozart Concerto for flute and harp with Deutsche Grammophone in June 2008.
In June 2005 she won the position of First Harpist at the Opéra Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels and from 2006 to 2008 she was teaching assistant to M. Fabrice Pierre at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon (France).
She has played with the Luzern Festival Orchestra, Orchestre Philarmormonique de Radio France, Orchestra RAI of Torino, under the direction of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Kazushi Ono, Maurizio Benini, Adam Fisher, Ivor Bolton and with musicians like Jacques Zoon and Wolfram Christ.
Ms. Belmondo was born in Turin in 1981 and began studying the harp at the age of eight at the Suzuki Talent Center in Turin. She continued her studies on the harp at the Conservatoire G. Verdi in Turin with Gabriella Bosio and, thanks to a De Sono Scholarship, at the CNSMD of Lyon, France, with Fabrice Pierre (where she graduated with honours in 2002), at the Juilliard School in New York, with Nancy Allen and she also had the opportunity to study with Judith Liber
Her musical formation was completed by the study of the cello, which started at age five and continued with Antonio Mosca at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Turin until 1999.
Since making her international debut at age of fourteen with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, Ms. Belmondo has won an impressive number of competitions and awards, including the Victor Salvi Competition in 1995, the Società Umanitaria in 1998, the Rovere d’Oro in 1997, the Martine Geliot Prize in the Lille Harp Competition in 1999, the Franz Schubert Competition in 1999, and the International Harp Competition in Lausanne in 2000.
After making her debut at the Wigmore Hall in London, she has performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. In 2002 she recorded her first solo CD (Harp Recital) for “Egan records”. In January 2006 she recorded with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra the Harp Concertos of Glière and Zabel and the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 6, KV238, transcribed for harp.
Since her debut as solist with “Mozart” Orchestra in Italy, she has been invited by Maestro Claudio Abbado to record the Mozart Concerto for flute and harp with Deutsche Grammophone in June 2008.
In June 2005 she won the position of First Harpist at the Opéra Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels and from 2006 to 2008 she was teaching assistant to M. Fabrice Pierre at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon (France).
She has played with the Luzern Festival Orchestra, Orchestre Philarmormonique de Radio France, Orchestra RAI of Torino, under the direction of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Kazushi Ono, Maurizio Benini, Adam Fisher, Ivor Bolton and with musicians like Jacques Zoon and Wolfram Christ.
Ms. Belmondo was born in Turin in 1981 and began studying the harp at the age of eight at the Suzuki Talent Center in Turin. She continued her studies on the harp at the Conservatoire G. Verdi in Turin with Gabriella Bosio and, thanks to a De Sono Scholarship, at the CNSMD of Lyon, France, with Fabrice Pierre (where she graduated with honours in 2002), at the Juilliard School in New York, with Nancy Allen and she also had the opportunity to study with Judith Liber
Her musical formation was completed by the study of the cello, which started at age five and continued with Antonio Mosca at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Turin until 1999.