Ambra Medusa

Ambra Sorrentino is a harpist and a cultural manager for music and theatre performance.  She regularly performs both as soloist and in ensemble. Recent venues and events were: Italian Cultural Institute London, Dawn concert at Villa Fondi Sorrento 2015, Gran galà di Villa Doria d’ Angri, Università Parthenope, Napoli; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano; Teatro Diana in Nocera Inferiore; Teatro Verdi in Salerno; Teatro San Babila, Milano; REAL Time TV “Wedding planners”; Le porte dell´arte, Pompei 2011 e 2012; Giffoni Film Festival 2009 e 2010; Borsa del Mediterraneo del Turismo archeologico di Paestum, 2009; Sommeruniversitaet Bayreuth 2009; Teatro Augusteo in Salerno; Paola International Chamber music festival 2007  and 2010. In this last occasion she won the prize for chamber music in duo with cello.  She successfully graduated in Visual arts, music and performing arts disciplines with the highest mark at the Faculty of foreign language and literature of the Salerno University. Her final dissertation was on the Musical Dramaturgy of Donizetti´s Maria Stuarda. In July 2013 she concluded her Master degree in Economics and management of cultural heritage and performing arts at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan with a final dissertation on International Management of opera theatres. Next September she is starting a PhD in Opera Management at Guilhall School of Music and Drama in London. In October 2014 she took a Harp master diploma at Conservatorio di Musica “G.Martucci” in Salerno, with M° Lucia Di Sapio. She also studied musical composition with the internationally renowned M° Lucia Ronchetti and she played as Principal harpist in the Conservatoire orchestra. She improved her musical skills under the guidance of Emmanuel Ceysson (MET), Julien Marcou (Opéra de Paris), Elisabeth Fontan-Binoche, Park Stickney (Jazz harp), Sara Simari, Luc Bergè, Georg Beckmann, Monika Frohlich, Martin Loritz, Mayumi Kamata, Karin Wolf (chamber music). Ms Sorrentino is President and founder of the GITAP youth musical association, as well as General Manager of the Concerto Giacomo Maggiore. Major events organized through these organizations have been international Masterclasses (Bayerische Opera Studio, Luca Canonici), the Seminar “Opera today” and the European Opera Days 2014- Naples.