CLAUDIA RAVETTO

VIOLONCELLO

She studied with Sergio Patria at the Conservatoire “G.Verdi” in Turin where she graduated with full marks. She followed the courses with professor Michael Flaksman at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik of Stuttgard and at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musilk of Mannheim, she graduated in both the schools. She took part in several competitions both for soloist and a piano four hands duo and trio. From 1990 to 2005, she played with the string quartet “Paolo Borciani” to the best musical institutions recorded for Naxos and Stradivarius, for the American magazine Amadeus and for Sky classica. She gave masterclasses of quartet and chamber interpretation. She founded “Verdi” quartet string with Francesco De Angelis, Lorenzo Gentili Tedeschi and Roberto Tarenzi after the dissolution of the Borciani quartet. Since 2005 she is a member of the Ensemble “Gli 8 violoncelli di Torino” and since 2010 she is playing in the string quartet Nor Arax that is a group specialized in traditional and modern Armenia music. She is also a member of the Zero quartet that is specialized to perform music of Ezio Bosso. She is professor of Ensemble music for strings at the Conservatoire “Giuseppe Verdi” in Turin.She won the European selection and she could take part in the “Seminario Piatigorsky “ in the Music School in the University of Southern California of Los Angeles