Barbara Panzarella

 Born in 1990 in Lamezia Terme, she started studying piano with her mother at the age of five and started a brilliant artistic career at a very young age, playing in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Romania, Turkey, France, Austria, Norway, Ireland, Portugal.

In 2004 she met Carlo Grante, with whom she continued her studies and with whom she recorded Mozart’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra KV. 365 with the “Orchestra Nazionale dell’Accademia di S. Cecilia” conducted by B. Sieberer (CD ©1222 – 2008 Music&Arts).

She is graduated in Piano, Chamber Music and Composition with top marks.

She currently works as a Pianist at the “Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” in Rome, in Giovanni Sollima’s class. She collaborates regularly with the annual advanced courses of Calogero Palermo.

She also collaborated with the classes of M. Fiorini, G. Rovighi, P. Beltramini, C. Tamponi, E. Norberg-Schultz, P. Serino, S. Tchakerian, A. Lucchi, A. Oliva, F. Di Rosa, A. Carbonare, F. Meloni, M. Quarta, P. Bonomini, J.P. Maintz, B. Belkin, E.Bronzi, with the “Sandro Verzari” Trumpet Competition in Ronciglione, with the “Dinu Lipatti” International Competition in Rome, with the “International Campus of the Arts” in Zagarolo, with the summer courses organized by “Umbria Classica”, by the “J. Napoli” Academy in Cava dei Tirreni, with the “Livorno music festival”, with the “Festival Janigro”.

In 2024 she won the teaching competition at the Conservatory of Benevento where now she has a permanent job as a Chamber Music teacher.

In duo with the cellist Amedeo Cicchese she recorded the CD “ARIOSO” dedicated to Pizzetti and Castelnuovo Tedesco, published by the Dutch label Brilliant Classics in 2020; in 2025 the label “DaVinci edition” published “CONTROLUCE” (music by Cilea, Longo and Ferroni) that Barbara recorded in duo with the violinist Roberta Lioy.

She is the author of the musical “Renzo e Lucia” inspired by the story of the “I promessi sposi” that was performed in 2019 at the “Artemisio Theater” in Velletri, in 2020 at the Benedictine Abbey of Lamezia Terme and in 2022 at the “Grandinetti Theater” in Lamezia Terme.