BIANCA MARIA FIORITO

Born in Rome in 1999, she graduates with honors at the age of only fifteen from St. Cecilia Conservatory of Music under the guidance of F. Albanese. She continues her studies at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with A. Oliva and at the Scatola Sonora Academy of Rome with M. Marasco, and she attends the chamber music advanced course at the School of Music of Fiesole in the class of G. Pretto. She is then admitted to the “Académie Supérieure de Musique” of Strasbourg (France) in the class of M. Caroli, where in 2019 she completes her Bachelor of Music with honors. She then obtains her Master of Music degree at the Universität Mozarteum of Salzburg (Austria) with Prof. M.M. Kofler.                                        

In 2021 she wins the permanent position as Second Flutist and Piccolist of the Münchner Philarmoniker Orchestra, with chief conductor M° Valery Gergiev.                                                                        

She has been awarded international and national prizes, among which are the S. Gazzelloni International Flute Competition, the C. Abbado Competition, the Adriana Giannuzzi Competition, the XX Rotary International Competition, the International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso of London, the AudiMozart International Competition, the Krakamp International Flute Competition. Thanks to her first absolute prize at the Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition, in 2016 she performes as a soloist in the Elgar Room of the London’s Royal Albert Hall. In 2019, she receives the “Windtex Excellence Award” from the Gaspari Foundation of Verona, given every year to a different italian rising musician.        

As a soloist, she performed with Orchestras from Italy, France and Switzerland, like the Orchestra Haydn of Bolzano and Trento, the Musici di Parma Orchestra, the Rotary Chamber Orchestra, the Baroccoli Kammerorchester of Zurich, the Orchestre Symphonyque d’Haguenau, the Orchestra Appassionata of Verona.

She has taken part in several masterclasses with the most influent flutists in the world, such as P. Gallois, E. Beynon, P. Taballione, J. Ostry, S. Careddu, U. Miilmann, A. Lieberknecht, M. Moragues and many others.

She participated to important Festivals on the international scenario, performing at Wiener Musikverein, Philharmonie de Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Festspielhaus Salzburg and collaborating with artists like A. Nelsons, R. Muti, A. Pappano, Z. Mehta, L. Shani, V. Gergiev, P. Järvi, L. Kavakos.

Since 2007, she has been invited as guest player in well-known orchestral institutions among which St Gallen Sinifonieorchester, Luigi Cherubini Orchestra, International Orchestra of Rome, Franco Ferrara Orchestra, Residenz Solisten Bavaria Klassik and Bläserphilharmonie Salzburg.

Devoted to contemporary music as well, she often performs "prèmieres", as a soloist and with chamber groups. She regularly collaborates with Imago Sonora Ensemble and Accademia Filarmonica Romana and, as an active member of Pentarte Ensemble, in 2017 she recorded a CD for the label LEAD RECORDS. Many pieces have been written for her over the last years, among which “Notte di Luna” for solo flute by F.M. Capogrosso (2018), “IoVis” for solo flute by F. Buonpane (2019) and “Immagini Sonore” for solo flute by A. Di Gianfelice (2021).