Fondazione Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo e Torino

Francesco Maria Pignataro began studying the violin with Prof. Franco Picca in 2009.
In 2012, he was admitted to the pre-college violin course at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli in the class of Maestro A. F. Hans Van Dijk.
In 2019, he moved to Salzburg in Austria where he studied privately for a year with Mag. Christine- Maria Höller.
He currently studies in Prof. Christian Tachezi’s violin class at the Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Austria.
He has collaborations with orchestras and chamber groups such as the Austria Festival Symphony Orchestra (Salzburg), Alma Mahler Musikverein (Klagenfurt), Sinfonietta St. Johann (St. Johann im Pongau), Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker (Bad reichenhall).
In recent years he has attended chamber music courses and master classes with C. Höller,S. Tchakerian,I. Rabaglia, M. H. Coleman, B. Schmid, Y. Kless, C. M. Parazzoli, A. Milani, A. C. Soanea, E. Davis, C. Rossi, A. Vismara, A. Blunt and M. Karuza.
Francesco M. Pignataro plays a 2014 Bruno Montagne Violin.