TEACHERS AT THE ACCADEMIA DI MUSICA
The teachers of the Fondazione Accademia di Musica lead the institution’s advanced music education and instrumental training paths. They are soloists and performers active on the major international concert stages, as well as teachers at leading conservatories and academies, and they support each student in developing their own artistic and professional identity.
Each academic year the teaching staff includes around 80 professionals, selected to ensure a complete educational offering in instrument, opera singing, chamber music and composition. The teachers inspire, advise and guide every student, completing the musical education of each one, helping them to develop their own personality as an artist and encouraging them to meet the challenges of the their future role as professionals.
The 2025/27 cof the Postgraduate Specialist Courses in Music Performance (third-level university programme), featuring lecturers of the highest calibre, who are internationally renowned and exceptionally dedicated to teaching, is currently underway.
SOLO PIANO: Pavel Gililov, Andrea Lucchesini, Enrico Pace, Roberto Plano; SOLO CONTEMPORARY PIANO: Emanuele Arciuli, Nicolas Hodges, Ralph van Raat, Maki Namekawa; MUSIC ANALYSIS, CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: Francesco Antonioni, Filippo Del Corno; AGENTS AND PROFESSIONAL MUSIC BUSINESS: Francescantonio Pollice; CHAMBER MUSIC: Enrico Pace, Gabriele Carcano, Ivan Rabaglia, Gianluca Verlingieri.
Since 2024, the Fondazione Accademia di Musica’s educational programme has expanded to include opera singing, with masterclasses, an advanced course and a third-level university specialisation programme in opera singing, taught by singers of the highest calibre, who are internationally renowned and exceptionally dedicated to teaching:
OPERA SINGING: Marcelo Álvarez, tenor; Fiorenza Cedolins, soprano; Ambrogio Maestri, baritone; STAGECRAFT: Laura Cosso; OTHER LESSONS: Saverio Clemente / INART and internationally renowned musicologists.
The following advanced piano courses will be held during the 2026/27 Academic Year:
ADVANCED COURSES: Enrico Pace, Roberto Plano, Gabriele Carcano, Giovanni Doria Miglietta; LIGHT COURSES: Benedetto Lupo, Roberto Plano, Mariangela Vacatello, Pietro De Maria, Filippo Gamba; RESIDENTIAL COURSE: Alexander Romanovsky; CONTEMPORARY PIANO: Emanuele Arciuli.
The following advanced courses in viola, violin, cello will be held during the 2026/27 Academic Year:
VIOLA – ADVANCED COURSES: Simone Briatore | VIOLIN – ADVANCED COURSES: Lukas Hagen, Lucy Hall, Francesco Manara, Cecilia Ziano; LIGHT COURSES: Sonig Tchakerian; ORCHESTRA TRAINING: Alessandro Milani | CELLO – ADVANCED COURSES: Patrick Demenga, Luca Magariello; LIGHT COURSES: Enrico Dindo.
The following advanced winds courses will be held during the 2026/27 Academic Year:
CLARINET: Enrico Maria Baroni, Luca Milani; FLUTE: Alberto Barletta; TRUMPET: Marco Braito
The following advanced courses will be held during the 2026/27 Academic Year:
CHAMBER MUSIC: Trio di Parma; Duolab (Andrea Lucchesini with Sonig Tchakerian), Lukas Hagen | COMPOSITION: Ivan Fedele or POC-Performance-Oriented Composition by Francesco Antonioni and Alessandro Cadario.
The advanced courses are supplemented each year by masterclasses, seminars and workshops, providing a comprehensive learning programme. The following advanced masterclasses will be held during the 2026/27 Academic Year:
PIANO: Andrea Lucchesini, Pavel Gililov; Anna Kravtchenko; Giuseppe Guarrera, Richard Goode, Dina Yoffe, Alexander Gadjiev. VIOLIN: Guido Rimonda, Sergey Khachatryan, Nikolay Madoyan.
Our teaching project continues beyond the academic year with Musica d’Estate, a summer camp of advanced music training with masterclasses in piano, violin, cello, chamber music and guitar, taught by internationally renowned musicians . The ideal course for students wishing to extend their knowledge of repertoire and to have the opportunity to perform in public in our programme of 30 concerts.
Since 2017 thanks to a partnership between the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale of the RAI national broadcasting network in Turin, we have developed the Professione Orchestra project, a programme designed to give students practical training in the skills of an orchestra professional.
