Arianna Congedi is an Italian pianist and répétiteur currently pursuing postgraduate studies in orchestral conducting with Christof Brunner.
Arianna is a 2024 Répétiteur Fellow of the Georg Solti Accademia and bursary recipient of the International Opera Awards Foundation. She is a 2023 scholarship holder of the Hirschmann foundation Switzerland for outstanding academic achievements and social engagement.
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Arianna recently made her conducting debut in London, performing Don Giovanni and Händel’s Teseo with Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been invited to work as rehearsal pianist and coaching assistant for various productions, including Der Wald, Lucrezia, Alcina, Larmes du Couteau/Alexandre bis, Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Dido and Aeneas, and Die Fledermaus.
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For her musical theatre "Nonna starb an einem Freitag", which intertwined opera scenes by Ligeti and Eötvös with her play script, Arianna received the ZHdK promotional award. In 2023, alongside Jonas Füllemann as sound/visual programmer, Arianna staged and performed K. Stockhausens Klavierstück XIII: Luzifers Traum using machine learning to augment the perception of the piece.


  

Photo by Jennifer Lorenzini