Flora Fontanelli

Hungarian-born Italian violinist Flora Fontanelli has won the first prize at the European Music Competition in Moncalieri, the third prize at the Giussano International Competition and the “Rancati Prize” at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan. Following her Bachelor studies at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, where she graduated with the best mark with Christian Anzinger, and an Erasmus at the Universitaet Mozarteum Salzburg with Martin Mumelter, Flora is currently studying at the Royal College of Music, London for a Master of Performance with Jan Repko. As an orchestral performer, Flora has played in the Sinfonieorchester der Universitaet Mozarteum with Bruno Weil and in the Orchestra Sinfonica del Conservatorio di Milano with conductors as Tito Ceccherini and Corrado Rovaris. She has had the opportunity to work with baroque ensembles, performing as part of the “Aura Musicale” with Balàzs Màtè, in Budapest, Innsbruck, Kuffstein and Hall in Tirol, and the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” at Canterbury Cathedral.