Anna Sophie Mancini, born in Neuwied, Germany, in 2007, began studying violin at the age of eight with Angelushi Bace and Giovanni Mantovani. From 2019 to 2022, she studied at the Milano Music Master School in the class of the violinist Yulia Berinskaya. Since 2022, she has been studying at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan, in the class of Yulia Berinskaya. She has participated in several masterclasses with Roman Simovic, Yulia Berinskaya, Carlo De Martini, Giovanni Mantovani, Ilya Grubert, Ana Reverdito Haas, Luca Franzetti, Lucy Hall, Anne Shih. In 2025 and 2026, she took part in Progetto Bottega, a chamber music workshop organized by Yulia Berinskaya at the Chiesa Valdese in Milan. In 2025 and 2026, she participated in a chamber music masterclass and concert at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh under the guidance of Helena Buckmayer. In 2025, she was selected for a seminar and concert organized by the FAMES Institute in Skopje, where she performed Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Violin Concerto at a concert held at the Philharmonic Hall in Skopje. She attended the course Art of Recording for Film & Media, organized in collaboration with the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and taught by Professor Kaveh Vares. In 2026 she took part in “Musiktage am Rhein”, an international festival where young talented musicians and emerging professional musicians come together to perform in a series of concerts in the Neuwied-Engers region. She was awarded Second Prize at the International Competition for Young Musicians Ohrid 2024, won First Absolute Prize at the Vimodrone Competition 2021, First Prize at the Claudio Abbado Competition 2018 and the Vimodrone Competition 2019, and Second Prize at the Giussano 2019, Pordenone 2019, and Valsesia Music 2021 competitions. She has performed as a soloist with the European Philharmonic Youth Orchestra conducted by Marcello Pennuto and with the orchestra I Musici di Parma.
She has been student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica since 2026.
