“CONSTELLATIONS”
APPASSIONATO ENSEMBLE – ANTONIETTA LOFFREDO TOY PIANO

Program
Music by A. Mattevi, Tsu-Yao Yang, M. Khayami, U. Pedraglio, D. Blom, G. Luppi, M. Zavala, S. Carvalho

Appassionato Ensemble was founded in 2016, intending to introduce and guide the audience through the world of Music and Art. Its instrumentation, which ranges from the solo instrument to the quintet, offers a repertoire mostly focused on XX century and contemporary music. Appassionato Ensemble takes its public into today’s music supporting the premieres of new scores by promoting international composition competitions, workshops and masterclasses, performing in concerts in Italy and abroad.
Ileana De Santis, flute
Michela Pirola, clarinet
Davide Moro, violin
Umberto Pedraglio, cello
Federico Ceriani, piano

Antonietta Loffredo, pianist and toy pianist, is a graduate of the Conservatorio “F.E. Dall’Abaco” in Italy and of the Conservatoire de Musique d’Issy les Moulineaux in France.
She has also conducted studies in a teaching and educational context at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of Pavia University at Cremona and earned a Master of Music degree in musicology from the University of Milan with a thesis on the toy piano.
Her book, The Toy Piano – From the Playroom to the Concert Platform, was published by Ut Orpheus Edizioni (Bologna, 2018).