Marcella Crudeli
The authors whom Marcella Crudeli has recreated through her superb piano skills, are somewhat illuminated by a warmth and a communicative force which fascinate and overwhelm the listener with enthusiasm. The rigor of her style and the structural firmness of her interpretations are fundamental characteristics of her art, supported by a very brilliant technique and an awesome sound. Thanks to these qualities, the Chopin she performs becomes an example of superlative quality and incomparable poetry. (Sergio Calligaris).
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” and 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 recorded for various musical recording companies.
Currently, she is holding an advanced piano course at the Ecole Normale de Musique “A. Cortot” in Paris. 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.
