FLAVIA NAPOLITANO

VIOLIN

Born in Madrid in 2007, she began her violin lessons at the age of eight at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and, with Adrian Pinzaru (Delian Quartet), at the Accademia di Pinerolo. At the age of thirteen, she moved to Dresden to continue her studies with violinist and professor Natalia Prishepenko with whom she currently studies.
Flavia Napolitano has won numerous international competitions, including the Agustin Aponte International Competition in Tenerife, the National Chamber Music Competition in Milan (as a duo with pianist Emma Guercio), the “Crescendo” International Music Competition in Florence, the Val Tidone International Music Competition and International Rizzardo Bino Competition and “Jugend musiziert” competition.
Flavia Napolitano first appeared as a soloist at the age of nine: she made her debut in Lithuania with the Kaunas Philharmonic Orchestra playing Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor. Two years later, she was invited to perform as a soloist with the Camerata Fontainebleau at the 22nd International Music Island Festival of Elba; on this occasion, she was awarded the “Elba Festival Prize 2018”.
In March 2025, she was invited to perform as a soloist at the Baoli Theater in Yunnan, the Nie Er Theater in Yuxi, the Grand Theater in Chongqing, and the Concert Hall in Chengdu.
In recent years she has performed in recitals and as a solo violin in prestigious venues including: Kulturpalast Concert Hall in Dresden, Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Studio Recital Hall Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, Turin Conservatory,Santa Pelagia in Turin,at the Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule of Music in Dresden, the EstOvest Festival, the Paganiniano Festival and the Roero Cultural Event.
In Turin she was invited to participate in the XXV edition of the “Intrecci Musicali” review and in the closing concert of the XLVI edition of the Annual Congress and General Assembly of the AEC (Association Européenne des Conservatoires) in duo with the pianist Emma Guercio with whom she also performed in a concert as part of the review “The Concerts of the City of Scandicci” – season LXII.
Flavia has the privilege of playing a Pressenda violin (1830-1835), provided by the Lödige and Jacoby families, Paderborn.