Giulia Persi graduated with highest honours (summa cum laude) in Piano Performance from the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome. Thanks to a scholarship, she pursued advanced studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest under the guidance of Attila Némethy and László Borbély. She subsequently continued her training through advanced piano courses led by Pierluigi Camicia, Roberto Prosseda and Roberto Plano. She has also participated in masterclasses with internationally renowned musicians, including Andrea Lucchesini, Mariangela Vacatello, Kálmán Dráfi, Valerij Voskobojnikov, Enrico Pace, Roberto Cappello and György Pauk. She has received awards and distinctions at several national and international piano competitions, including the Premio Crescendo – A.Gi.Mus. Firenze, the Sonja Pahor Piano Competition and the Magliano Sabina International Competition. In 2016, she was selected to perform Paisiello’s Piano Concerto No. 1 as part of the Paisiello Festival in Rome. In 2017, she gave several concerts in Denmark on the occasion of Aarhus being designated European Capital of Culture. In 2024, she completed a Second-Level Academic Master’s Degree in Artistic Research in Music at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome, graduating with highest honours. Her research project, Suonar Danzando, was subsequently published as an article in 2025 by the academic publisher Il Sileno Edizioni. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Performing Arts: Arts, Sciences and Technologies at the “L. Marenzio” Conservatory in Brescia. She was awarded the three-year doctoral scholarship co-funded by the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She is regularly invited to present her research at national and international academic conferences, including ESCOM 2024 (Conservatorio “L. Refice”, Frosinone, Italy), DARE 2026 (Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia”, Rome, Italy), SysMus 2026 (Durham University, United Kingdom) and MUSICONNEX 2026 (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). Alongside her research activities, she performs as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals and concert venues in Italy and abroad. Her performances have taken place at venues including Lystrup Kirke in Aarhus, Idræts- og Kulturhuset Sløjfen in Hadsten, Luxury Store Ciampi in Rome, the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, the Teatro di Marcello in Rome, Holstebro Music School, Musikkens Hus in Aalborg, the San Francesco Auditorium in Norcia, the Romanesque Church of San Michele Arcangelo, the Academic Hall of the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest, among others. She is also active as a piano teacher, and several of her students have received first prizes and distinctions at national and international competitions. In 2025, she founded the artistic project Poiesis – Generations in Dialogue with Maestro Franco Ferranti, former principal clarinettist of the RAI Orchestra in Rome. The duo made its debut in 2026, subsequently expanding its activities to chamber music performances in duo and trio formations, exploring repertoire ranging from the classical tradition to contemporary music.
She has been a student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica since 2026.
