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Marcella Crudeli is considered one of the most distinguished Italian concert
performers. Significant contributions to her artistic formation
were made by illustrious Maestros B. Seidlhofer, A. Cortot and
C. Zecchi.
She graduated with Honours (top grades), cum laude and with
special mention at the Milan Conservatorium “G. Verdi”,
at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Vienna Academies. For many years
she has most successfully pursued an intense career as soloist
and as a member of world-renown chamber music ensembles, for
major concert societies, radio and television networks and with
the most prestigious orchestras directed by famous conductors.
Overall, she has performed over two thousand concerts in more
than eighty different countries in five continents. She has
held seminars, master classes and advanced courses of piano
interpretation in various countries. She has constantly been
a member of juries in national and international piano competitions,
also covering the role of chairwoman, and she has performed
and recordered for various musical recording companies. Currently,
she is holding an advanced piano course at the Ecole Normale
de Musique de Paris “A. Cortot”.
She has been professor of piano at the Conservatorium “S.
Cecilia” in Rome and director of the Pescara Conservatorium
from 1988 to 2004. Consolidating her world-wide level acquired
artistic status, a highly-qualified international jury conferred
upon her one of the Prizes of the 8th Edition of “Il Sagittario
d’Oro”, never before awarded to an Italian soloist-concert
pianist. Furthermore, two prizes were bestowed upon her in the
Protomoteca Hall of Rome’s City Hall: the “A. Ristori”
Prize, reserved to Italian and foreign women who have achieved
particular dinstinction in the fields of labour, art and culture
and the “Cimento d’Oro dell’Arte e della Cultura”
Prize in the “Culture and Music” section.
She was also awarded the “Palestrina” Prize. Moreover,
for her activity as performer and her direction of the Pescara
Conservatorium “L. D’Annunzio”, she was awarded
the “Europa 1989” Prize in the Protomoteca Hall
of Rome’s City Hall and the “Progetto Donna”
Prize in Pescara. She is founder and president of the Association
EPTA-Italy (European Piano Teachers Association) and is founder
and president of the “F. Chopin” Association which
organizes concerts, international music courses of advanced
piano playing and interpretation, as well as the International
Piano Competition “Rome”, which has been held since
1990 with great success.
She was elected President of the European EPTA in 1995-96 and
in 2003-2004. In 1993 she was awarded “Professor Emeritus”
at the Sakuyo College Tsuyama in Japan. In the same year she
was awarded the DISMA “A life for a musical instrument”
Prize at the “Bocconi” University in Milan. She
also received the “Lions d’Oro” Prize for
her High Artistic and Humanistic merits.
In 1999 she was nominated “Cavaliere al Merito”
of the Italian Republic and in 2003 she has received the gold
medal and the first class diploma for the “Praiseworthy
in the fields of education, culture and art” by the President
of the Republic. Rotary Club International has conferred upon
her the famous “Paul Harris Fellow Two Rubies” Award,
for her distinguished artistic and humanitarian service. |
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