Elisa D’Auria

Elisa D’Auria has played as a soloist and with orchestra throughout Europe, United States, South America and Asia. She has performed for numerous festivals and musical associations in distinguished halls (New York: Carnegie Hall; Gdansk: Philharmonie Concert Hall; Genève: Grande Salle du Conservatoire; Guangzhou: Tianhe Cultural Center; Leipzig: Hochschule für Musik und Theather; London: Steinway Hall; Madrid: Auditorium Sony; Milan: Sala Puccini and Sala Verdi, Teatro Dal Verme; Montecarlo: Palais des Congrès; Rio de Janeiro: BNDES Auditorium; Salzburg: Mozarteum, Shanghai: Shanghai Oriental Art Center, He Luting Concert Hal and Fudan University; etc). After her debut at the age of twelve, she has been soloist of many orchestras, among which the Orquestra de Mallorca, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bacau Philarmonic Orchestra, the Finchley Chamber Orchestra, the Philarmonia Mediterranea Orchestra, the Chioggia Simphony Orchestra and the Alaleona Theater Orchestra, collaborating with Italian and foreign conductors such as Ovidiu Balan, Luigi De Filippi, Dario Garegnani, David Lardi, Pietro Perini, Nicola H. Samale, Barry Sargent, Florin Totan, Massimiliano Caldi, etc. She is a laureate of more than thirty national and international competitions in Italy and abroad, such as “Baltic International Piano Competition”, “Hastings International Piano Concerto”, “Vienna Grand Prize”, “Debut International Piano Competition, “Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition”, “Paris Virtuoso Prize”, “Schumann – Chopin Piano Competition”, ” Vila de Capdepera International Piano Competition”, “Anton Rubinstein International Piano Competition”… She has been invited in many television and radio in Italy and abroad. She has recorded for the label Musikstrasse. Her new CD/DVD will be released in 2016 by the international label Limen Music. Elisa is one of the eight pianists in the world selected to participate in the “Music Academy of the West Summer Festival” which was held in July 2014 in California, where she was awarded the Natalie McFadden Memorial Fellowship. In 2015 she is in residence at Tanglewood Music Center, the summer festival of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where she is granted the Felicia Montealegre Bernstein Award and the Adele and John Gray Memorial Fellowship; moreover she has the opportunity to collaborate with Garrick Ohlsson, Emmanuel Ax, Michael Tilson Thomas and Andris Nelsons.