Elisa Scudeller
Elisa Scudeller, born in 2001, started her first violin lessons at the age of 5 with M° M. Cristescu and graduated with full marks and honours at the Conservatory of Padua at the age of 15 under the guidance of M° Glauco Bertagnin. In February 2019, she obtained her Master’s degree with top marks with M° I. Grubert at the Conservatory of Padua and in the same month he obtained her Academic Three-year degree with excellence and special mention of the jury at the Accademia Perosi in Biella, obtaining a scholarship.
She also obtained a scholarship at the Consevatori Superior del Liceu (Barcelona), where she completed a Master’s degree in musical interpretation with Maestro Corrado Bolsi in June 2021. Also in the same month, he obtained a Master’s degree with distinction at the Accademia L. Perosi in Biella under the guidance of M° Pavel Berman.
In October 2021, she graduated in singing at the Conservatorio B. Maderna in Cesena and in December 2022 obtained her Master’s degree at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu with M° Oriol Rosés Palacios.
She studied for several years at the W. Stauffer Academy in Cremona under M° Salvatore Accardo and is now attending the chamber music course with M° Ivan Rabaglia at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome.
She furthered her studies with M° Z. Bron, B. Kushnir, S. Dogadin, S. Marcovici, P. Vernikov, I. Volochine, S. Krylov, R. Baraldi, A. Moccia, M. Marin, S. Girshenko and G. Curtolo.
Elisa plays in chamber music ensembles, including in a duo with her sister Giulia, with whom she has participated in many national and international festivals and won several competitions, and in a duo with Spanish pianist Miquel Esquinas Martinéz, with whom she played last November at the prestigious LifeVictoria Festival at the Hospital de San Pau and the Auditori Felip Pedrell in Tortosa.
Elisa has won numerous special prizes and national and international competitions, including the ‘Città di Fermo’ prize for the best performance of a capriccio by Paganini at the International Andrea Postacchini Competition 2024, the ‘Johannes Brahms’ special prize for the best performance of a work by Brahms at the International Johannes Brahms Competition 2024, the first prize at the Crescendo International Music Competition in New York, thanks to which she performed in February 2018 at Canergie Hall as soloist and in duo with her sister, and the first prize overall at the Eurasian Music Games 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan, where she was the first and only European to achieve this result.
At the invitation of the Italian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Stefano Ravagnan she was called upon to represent the Veneto Region as a soloist and in a duo with her sister Giulia at EXPO 2017 in Astana. She also gave concerts at the National University of Arts in the same city, playing in the Great Hall and Chopin Hall and in the Italian Pavilion at the EXPO.
She won the audition for the role of supporting second violin in the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, with which she worked until December 2022, and for the role of supporting first violin in the Orchestra Talenti Musicali of the CRT Foundation in Turin. She was also concertmaster of the Orchestra Sinopoli, with which she performed the 2016 Christmas Concert at the Senate under the direction of M° Gianna Fratta in the presence of the President of the Republic and Italy’s highest civil and religious dignitaries. In September 2018, she performed as a soloist playing Mozart’s Concerto No. 5 at the V. Bellini in Catania and at the L. Rossi theatre in Macerata, and in December 2019 she played, again as soloist, in the Sala della Regina at the Chamber of Deputies. Elisa has performed as soloist with other orchestras and ensembles including the ‘Solisti Veneti’, the ‘Musici di Parma’, the symphony orchestra of the Conservatory of Padua and the ‘Zinaida Gilels’ orchestra.
She plays an 18th century Giovanni Grancino violin.
Giulia Scudeller
Giulia Scudeller graduated at the age of 15 in violin at the Conservatory of Milan and at 17 in viola with top marks under the guidance of M° Zaltron.
In February 2019 she obtained a Master of Art in Concert Repertoire for Violin with M° Ilya Grubert at the Conservatorio Pollini in Padua and in October 2020 she obtained a Master of Art in Music Performance with M° P. Berman at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano.
She also studied at the ‘L. Perosi’ Academy in Biella with M° Berman and at the ‘W. Stauffer’ in Cremona with M° Accardo.
She specialised with M° A. Moccia, M. Marin, G. Angeleri, M. C. Carlini and F. Cusano.
At the age of 10, she played as a soloist in the A. B. Michelangeli hall of the Bolzano Conservatory with the Monteverdi orchestra conducted by M° Emir Saul.
She has won many first prizes in national and international competitions and has performed on several occasions as a soloist, including at: Sale Apollinee of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, in the Sala Verdi of the Milan Conservatory, in the Chopin Hall in Naples and in the Sala Maffeiana of the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.
In 2017, she performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in the Great Hall and Chopin Hall of the National University of Arts in Astana, Kazakhstan. She was also invited to perform as a representative of the Veneto Region in the Italian Pavilion at EXPO 2017 in the same city.
She is one of the violas in the Sinopoli Orchestra, with which she performed the 2016 Christmas Concert at the Senate under the baton of M° Gianna Fratta in the presence of the President of the Republic and leading Italian civil and religious dignitaries.
In 2019 she was the winner of a scholarship organised by the Solisti Veneti, which allowed her to perform as soloist with the orchestra at the Auditorium Pollini of the Conservatory of Padua.
In April 2021 she won the competition for the role of Concertino at the Orchestra del Friuli Venezia Giulia. She was also eligible for the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), the Gustav Mahler Jungen Orchestra and the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, both in 2022 and 2023.
In 2022, she was admitted to the Accademia Santa Cecilia in M° Ivan Rabaglia’s chamber music class.
Verónica Andrea Nava Puerto
Verónica Andrea Nava Puerto, born in Maracaibo (Venezuela) on 25 November 1993, began her cello studies at the age of 9 at the Santa Rosa de Agua School of the Orchestre System of Venezuela (Abreu Project), initially with Prof. Asdrubal Castillo and later with Prof. Obadias Guerra.
In 2011, she began studying with M° William Molina Cestari at the Academia Latinoamericana de Cello. She further specialised with M° Marcio Carneiro in the Academia Nuevo Mundo festival for the editions of 2007, 08, 09.
From the academic year 2013-2014 she began the three-year cello course at the Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padua under the guidance of M° Mario Finotti, and in 2018 the two-year course in Cello at the Conservatorio Francesco Venezze in Rovigo under the guidance of M° Luca Simoncini, obtaining top marks.
She specialised in chamber music in Trio with Elisabetta Levorato and Sofia Andreoli at the Academy of Music in Sacile under the guidance of M° Stefania Redaelli and at the Academy of Music in Fiesole under the guidance of the Gaspard Trio and the masters Alexander Lonquich and Bruno Canino. She is currently attending the Master Course in Chamber Music at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
In the orchestral field, she has played,
both as a soloist and in a line-up, with several ensembles
Venezuelan, Italian and American, including: Orquesta infantil y juvenil de Santa Rosa de Agua, Orquesta infantil y juvenil Regional del Zulia, Orquesta de la juventud zuliana Rafael Urdaneta with whom she performed a tour in Italy as part of the Bergamo culture festival, Orquesta Nacional infantil de Venezuela, Orquesta Sinfonica de Maracaibo (Venezuela), Orchestra Palermo Classica, Orchestra Sinfonica del Conservatorio di Padova, with whom she participated in a record production as a cello concertino, Claudio Scimone’s I Solisti Veneti, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Camerata Accademica del Conservatorio di Padova, Orchestra del ‘700 del Conservatorio di Padova, Asolo Baroque Ensemble, American Youth Philharmonic of Washington, DC (USA), giving two concerts in Washington, DC and Alexandria (Virginia).
She has played under the direction of, among others, Rubén Dario Cova, Gustavo Dudamel, Stefano Miceli and Simon Rattle. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Vivaldiano Quartet, which has been bringing baroque and late baroque music, especially from the Veneto region, to Europe for over a decade, performing in Italy and abroad, together with musicians M° Stefano Maffizzoni (flute), M° Riccardo Malfatto (violin) and M° Lorella Ruffin (piano). In her chamber music activity, she has performed at festivals in cities such as Padua, Rovigo, Bologna, Imperia, Rome, Modena… In 2016, she played in chamber ensemble formation with the Venezuelan Ensemble Çur at the Small Hall of the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.