Maria Vittoria Crotti was born in Parma in 1982 and is a violinist. She took her diploma at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Ladislau Petru Horvath, entered the class of Pavel Vernikov at the Russian Academy for Higher Musical Education in Portogruaro at the age of 14 and attended the summer academy of the Mozarteum Salzburg as well as the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. At the International Piano Academy in Imola she gained diplomas in chamber music. With a scholarship she studied for three years in Philadelphia with Lenuta Ciulei, then in New York with Lewis Kaplan and in Lucerne with Giuliano Carmignola, with whom she completed a Master of Advanced Studies. In 2002 she was a finalist of the European Union Youth Orchestra; she became a member of the European project “SIXE”, with which she has given concerts in Europe, Egypt and Greece. She has played, among others, in the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, with the Duisburger Philharmoniker and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. On the Undine label she can be heard on the gala live recordings Doc Heilein and Friends 2021 (2022) and 2023 (2023).
Maria Vittoria Crotti
Violin
