Francesca Formenti trained as a pianist under the guidance of Silva Costanzo at the Civica Scuola di Musica “Claudio Abbado” in Milan, obtaining in 2021 the First-Level Academic Diploma in Piano and in 2023 the Second-Level Academic Diploma in Piano. During the Master, she participated in the Erasmus program for a semester at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Germany), focusing on classical repertoire on historical keyboards with Stefania Neonato. While abroad, she took part in the “Werk Statt Festival,” a contemporary music festival, with the EchtzeitEnsemble. She attended several piano masterclasses with André Gallo, Igor Roma, Boris Petrushansky, and Clive Britton. She has performed extensively in solo, chamber and ensemble settings in festivals and concert series such as “Notti Trasfigurate”, “Isole di Suono”, “Piano City Milano”, “Brera Musica”, “Cantieri Musicali”, “Notturni in villa”, “Settimane Musicali”, “Stauffer Summer Festival”, “Imola Summer Music Festival”, “La musica del Monteverdi” (Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona) and the “Festival Internazionale Giovani Talenti” (Piccola Fenice, Badia Polesine; Sala dei Giganti, Padova). She also participated in the concert “Omaggio a Luciano Chailly” at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, organized in collaboration with the Italian Society for Contemporary Music, and in the Rondò 2025 festival of Divertimento Ensemble at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, in a concert dedicated to Niccolò Castiglioni. A lover of chamber music, she has participated in numerous masterclasses and summer courses with Silva Costanzo, Carlo De Martini, Silvio Righini, Paola Girardi and Raffaele Trevisani, performing in concerts for outstanding students. In 2023 she obtained the Advanced Diploma in Chamber Music with A. Meunier at the Accademia “Incontri con il Maestro” Foundation in Imola. From February 2021 to June 2024, she attended the Advanced Chamber Music course at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with A. Lonquich, B. Canino, Danusha Waskiewicz, Simone Bernardini, A. Meunier and Trio Gaspard, and from October 2023 to June 2024, the German Lied course with Erik Battaglia at the same institution. Among her most significant collaborations are those with IES Abroad as pianist in chamber music groups in Silva Costanzo’s workshops and as accompanist in the classes of Paola Fre and Denis Zanchetta. Alongside her classical repertoire studies, she has focused on 20th-century and contemporary repertoire, regularly attending lessons and workshops and performing in concerts for the best students of the “Laboratorio ‘900” at the Civica Scuola di Musica “Claudio Abbado” with Silva Costanzo, Carlo Feige, Maurizio Longoni, Giovanni Verrando and Andrea Melis. She has also participated in several contemporary music masterclasses with composers Roberto Andreoni, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Cosimo Carovani and Gabriella de Esteban. She is pianist of the contemporary ensemble Endkadenz, based in Milan, and has collaborated with composers Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Roberto Andreoni, Alessandro Perini and Alessandro Bono. She has also collaborated with violinist Diego Tosi, soloist of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, performing the E. Carter trio with Andrea Stringhetti on cello at the debut concert of the “Stauffer Summer Music Festival” on July 8, 2022, concluding the masterclass held at the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona. In September 2024, she was selected for the Ensemble Academy Freiburg (Germany) with Ensemble Recherche and collaborated with Alda Caiello and Divertimento Ensemble for the Call for Young Performers Voice 2025 as accompanist pianist. She has been selected as a participant in the upcoming edition of the Precept.concept.percept XVII. residency program and festival week in Bled, Slovenia, in June 2027. Since January 2024, she has been a professor at the Civica Scuola di Musica “Claudio Abbado” in Milan.
She has been a student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica since 2026.
