Sara Audenino. Sara Audenino started her studies with Sandra Gallinaro at the Marconi-Antonelli middle school in Turin. She continued at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi with Enrico Groppo and graduated there in 2022.
While studying at the Conservatorio, she attended violin and chamber music masterclasses of Ilya Grubert, Simone Bernardini and Christoph Giovaninetti. She participated in Summer Festivals organized by Corinna Canzian, Marco Zuccarini and Dora Bratchkova.
Sara has played in various chamber music groups for Il Conservatorio per Santa Pelagia, I concerti di San Filippo Neri, Mozart Nacht und Tag and MiTo per la Città.
Clara Piccoli. Clara, born in 2002, began studying cello at the Suzuki Academy of Turin at the age of four in the class of Liviana Pittau. From 2015 she continued her studies for three years with Marco Mosca, and later attended the cello course of Dario Destefano at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino, where she obtained her Master’s Degree (Second Level Academic Diploma) in October 2023 with the highest mark, 110 cum laude.
Meanwhile, she attended the Advanced Cello Course with Patrick Demenga at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo, and took part in the “Obiettivo Orchestra” project with Amedeo Cicchese and Relja Lukic at the APM School of Saluzzo. She later earned her Master’s Degree at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam, studying with Joachim Eijlander. In recent years, she has participated in masterclasses in Italy and abroad with Martin Lohr, Ildikó Szabó, Asier Polo, and Ivan Karizna.
She is the winner of several prizes in international competitions. In June 2016, she was awarded the First Prize and the Special Prize for the performance of Requiebros at the Premio Crescendo in Florence. In April 2024, she won First Prize in the Strings Section at the International Competition “Giovani Musicisti – Città di Treviso”, and in March 2025 she received First Prize at the Rijnmond Muziekprijs in Rotterdam.
Clara performs regularly in concert, collaborating with orchestras such as the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, the Contrametric Ensemble, and the Uto Ughi and Friends Orchestra. She is also an active chamber musician, performing frequently in Italy and the Netherlands in venues such as De Doelen in Rotterdam, Theater Ludens in The Hague, and San Filippo Neri Auditorium in Turin.
During her Master’s studies in Rotterdam, she deepened her interest in tango and contemporary music. She also conducted and published a research project analyzing certain technical and interpretative aspects of Pau Casals’ style, integrating them into her own playing, particularly in the performance of works by Gaspar Cassadó.
Marco Isaia. Marco Isaia was born in Savigliano in 1998. He started playing the piano at a very young age with Andrea Vigna and later with Chiara Tavella. He then studied at the Civico Istituto Musicale G.B. Fergusio in Savigliano with Philipp Lüders and then with Luigi Dominici, who prepared him to enter the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin where he was initially a pupil of Bruno Bosio.
He also studied the violin for 4 years, winning 3 competitions. In 2023 he graduated from the G. Verdi conservatory in Turin with top marks and honours, after studying in Caterina Vivarelli’s class.
Since 2022 he has been attending a course as a collaborator master with Maestro
Giannandrea Agnoletto at the Piedmont Academy of the Voice.
He participated in various Piano Masterclasses held by Nikita Fitenko, Alexander
Gadjieev, Murray McLachlan, Alexandr Skiutovski, Alon Goldstein, Suk Rahn Kwon, organized by the Civico Istituto Musicale G.B. Fergusio.
He has performed numerous times for his city or for other concerts in nearby towns, in solo recitals or in chamber ensembles. He has played several times as a soloist in the evening concerts of the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin.
He currently collaborates in the activities of the “Vox Armonica” Choir of Savigliano.
In 2021 he won the first “Recital” competition organized by “Pradleves Musica” and third place in the ProMusica Agency competition.
In 2023, he placed third in the Washington Piano festival competition.
The Trio is a student of the Fondazione Accademia di Musica.
