Artists performing at La Filarmonica
Meet the artists that come from all corners of the world to perform at La Filarmonica in San Pancrazio!
18 July 2026
Per Tengstrand
After winning 1st prize in the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1997, pianist Per Tengstrand has performed in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the big hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
He has performed as a soloist with, among others, the Detroit Symphony, National Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, Singapore Symphony, and Orchestre National de France.
Tengstrand is the subject of the acclaimed documentary The Soloist, directed by Magnus Gertten and Stefan Berg. He is the Artistic Director of Music on Park Avenue in New York, the Princeton Chamber Music Series, as well as a festival bearing his name, Tengstrandfestivalen, in his native town of Växjö in Sweden. He is the recipient of the Royal Medal of Litterus and Artibus, which he received from the King of Sweden.
Per Tengstrand’s film on Beethoven "Freedom of the Will", received numerous international awards. His second film, ”Piano Rivals” will be screened at the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 2026, as well as in New York, San Francisco, and Boston among other cities.
In November of 2025, Per passed the United States Figure Skating Association's test to receive a Gold Medal in adult figure skating skills. He resides in Princeton, New Jersey.
30 July 2026
Gisèle Ortrun Grahe
Ortrun Gisèle Grahe studied piano in Essen and Hamburg, Germany, and early in her youth with Irma Zucca Sehlbach, a student of Eduard Erdman. Among the pianists who influenced her in particular were Juergen Uhde, Detlef Kraus and Elisabeth Leonskaja. While appearing as soloist in recitals or with orchestras, she quickly began to concentrate on chamber music. She collaborated with the violinist Vesselin Parachkevov in Essen, with the cellist Bernhard Gmelin in Hamburg and was accompanist in masterclasses and chamber music courses at Weikersheim, Stift Lilienfeld, the International Summer Academy of Bad Leonsfelden among others.
Her collaboration with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and DaltonBaldwin allowed to deepen her ability to accompany singers. In 2002 she continued this collaboration with her own students, and Fischer-Dieskau invited her to Italy, to the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart. She continued working with singers. Grahe taught coaching with emphasis on singing, instrumental music and chamber music at conservatories in Berlin, Graz, Rostock and Nurnberg.
After 2014 she was vocal and instrumental coach at the Conservatory Cherubini in Florence and taught in Cannes, Paris, and Var (Provence). Since 2018 she has been living in Italy, teaching piano and continuing her work as vocal and instrumental coach at various conservatories, among them in Florence, Bolzano and Campobasso.
30 July 2026
Andreas Macco
Bass-baritone Andreas Macco, upon receiving teaching and singing degrees at the Musikhochschulen of Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Vienna, began his career with fixed engagements at the theatres in Hannover (where he had won a singing competition), Frankfurt and Bonn. Since 2004 his work is freelance.
In 1994 he began to make international guest appearances. Being invited frequently to Italy, he has sung in Bologna, Rovigo, Pisa, Brescia, at La Scala in Milan, at the San Carlo in Naples, in Rome, at the Arena di Verona and at the Maggio Musicale in Florence. Furthermore he has sung in Tokyo, Zürich, Lyon, Rouen, Moscow, Riga, Donezk, Athens, at the festivals in Bregenz, Salzburg, Bayreuth, and at the Ruhrtriennale.
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His repertoire stretches from Monteverdi operas over Mozart’s Sarastro, Leporello, Don Giovanni, Commendatore and Don Alfonso to the villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust and Golaud; to Wagner’s Holländer, Wotan, Gurnemanz and Pogner; to Verdi’s Filippo II and Conte di Walter; and to Vodnik/the Water Gnome (Rusalka) and the Animal Trainer/Athlete (Lulu). All in all, sixty roles.
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In concert halls in Vienna (Konzerthaus und Musikverein), Moscow (Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory), Leipzig (Gewandhaus), Dresden (Kreuzkirche), Berlin (Philharmonie), Montreal (Festival La Lanaudière), Taipei, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Rome (Sala Santa Cecilia), Salzburg (Grosses Festspielhaus), Athens (Odeon of Herodes Atticus), Frankfurt (Alte Oper) and others, he has sung central works of concert literature ranging from Bach and Handel, over Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, DvoÅ™ák and Mendelssohn to Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
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He has sung Lied recitals devoted to the songs of Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Ibert and others.
13 August 2026
Moser String Quartet
Since its founding five years ago, the Moser Quartet has been awarded 1st Prize in the International Competition Gran Premi Musical Lauredià (Andorra), 2nd Prize in the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition (Switzerland), the Prize “Duranton Consultants” at the Concours FNAPEC (France), the Award for the best interpretation of the commissioned work in the “Bad Tölz Competition 2026” and the Special Award “Ambassador Ensemble of the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition 2023” (Japan).
Moreover, the Moser String Quartet has performed in renowned venues such as Philharmonie de Paris and Palau de la Música of Valencia, and has appeared in numerous international festivals such as Trame Sonore CMF, Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, MonteLeón ICMF, String Quartet Biennale Munich, Ernen Musikdorf Festival and L’Orangerie Sonor. They are a prize winner ensemble at the Bad Tölz competition 2026
13 August 2026
Kanon Miyashita
MOSER STRING QUARTET VIOLIN
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Japanese violinist Kanon Miyashita is the founding first violinist of the Moser String Quartet and a passionate chamber, orchestral, and solo musician. She is currently based in Basel, Switzerland.
Kanon has performed at numerous international venues and has been invited to prestigious chamber music festivals, including the MonteLeón International Chamber Music Festival (Spain), Festival Musikdorf Ernen (Switzerland) and the Trame Sonore Chamber Music Festival (Italy).
Her performances have been featured on Radio France and WQXR radio in New York. As a concert soloist, she has appeared with orchestras in the UK, Israel and Japan.
13 August 2026
Patricia Muro Francia
MOSER STRING QUARTET VIOLIN
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Originally from Logroño, Spanish violinist Patricia Muro studied at the renowned Music Conservatory of the Basque Country (Musikene) and at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, where she was mentored by Catalin Bucataru, Tatiana Samouil, Barbara Doll and Silvia Simionescu.
Patricia has also graced the stage as a soloist, performing with orchestras such as Collegium Musicum La Rioja and La Rioja Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, she won the 1st Prize in the Fermín Gurbindo Competition.
Patricia has received advice from renowned violinists such as Mark Skazinetsky, Raphaël Oleg, Marie Berard, Rainer Schmidt, Tomasz Tomaszewski, Guy Braunstein, Irene Wilhelmi and Boris Brotvyn, among others. She has also performed with professional orchestras such as the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and Kammerorchester Basel; has been concertmaster of several youth orchestras, including the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, and has performed internationally with the European Union Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
13 August 2026
Élise Hiron
​MOSER STRING QUARTET VIOLA
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Élise Hiron is an enthusiastic and dynamic musician based in Switzerland.
She has often been invited as principal viola of the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, and plays regularly in the chamber orchestras of Basel, Lausanne and Freiburg, where she holds a tutti position. She performs as a pianist in a duet with cellist Miquel Garcia Ramon, and as a violist in the Wendel Piano Quartet and the Moser String Quartet since 2024.
She has studied at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), the HEMu of Lausanne and Sion, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and she recently pursued two Master's degrees: a viola MA at the Basel Hochschule, and a chamber duo MA as a pianist in Paris. Her teachers have included Tatjana Masurenko, Silvia Simionescu, Jean Sulem, Jeffrey Irvine, Claire Désert, Anton Kernjak, Rafael Rosenfeld and François Salque.
13 August 2026
Lea Galasso
​MOSER STRING QUARTET Cello
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Lea Galasso is an Italian cellist, passionate chamber musician and cello teacher. She has performed at renowned venues such as the Rome Chamber Music Festival, Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama, and the “Lingotto Giovani” Festival in Torino. She won the special prize “The Note Zagreb” at the 9th International Competition for Young Cellists “Antonio Janigro” in Croatia.
Lea studied under esteemed professors such as Ivan Monighetti, Antonio Meneses and Christian Poltéra, graduating with honors from prestigious institutions in Lucerne, Basel and Bern. She participated in prestigious academies and masterclasses such as the Gstaad String Academy, Barenboim-Said Academy and Accademia Chigiana, working with renowned musicians like Frans Helmerson, Jens Peter Maintz, Peter Bruns.
As a founding member of the Moser String Quartet, Lea has won multiple prizes, showcasing her commitment to chamber music. She plays on an italian cello Primo Contavalli, acquired thanks to an anonymous donation by a group of members of the Associazione Amici della Scuola di Fiesole.
10 September 2026
Sašo Vollmaier
Vollmaier is a Slovenian pianist, known primarily for his daring solo projects that connect with various artistic fields. His most notable projects are "Vollmaier: Kind of Laibach" and "Vollmaier: Ligeti (How to Explain Ligeti to a Dead Audience)" — both premiered at Cankarjev dom. He seeks his expression in darker sonic spaces, between the classical and improvisational worlds. This sonic quality was also recognized by Yamaha, which awarded him the title of Yamaha Artist (April 2023). In recent years he has been active in performance art and theatre. His appearances include shaping stage sound with interventions of movement and spoken word. Vollmaier composes music for dance and theatre productions. His passion for the human voice led him to the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart (Malérargues, France) and the Accademia dell'Arte (Arezzo, Italy), where he shares his research and knowledge as a teacher and musical co-creator of vocal works.
The new composition titled Vollmaier: Error, will again be performed in one continuous movement — a format he has developed over the last years. In addition to form and musical dramaturgy, he experiments with the electronic aspect within the piano's acoustic sound, suggesting new directions and offering different solutions in his musical expression.
27 August 2026
Trio Arota
The Arota Trio is a recently formed ensemble. The artistic partnership between the cello and the piano has been in place for many years, with various activities both as duos and in chamber ensembles. The union with the clarinet, since 2024, has allowed the ensemble to begin work on a diverse and varied musical repertoire. Twentieth-century and contemporary composers are approached with particular attention, without forgetting the great tradition of classical and romantic composers who have composed works for this ensemble.
27 August 2026
Caroline Boersma
TRIO AROTA - CELLO
After her studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (A.Bijlsma) she moved to Italy, where she worked at S.Cecilia Symphonic Orchestra, and subsequently collaborated with various baroque and classical chamber orchestras, touring throughout Europe and Japan.
With the ensemble Tripla Concordia, specializing in 17th /18th century music, she appeared on radio and television in several countries of the European Union, and produced a number of recordings, which have earned international recognition.
From 1990 she participated regularly in music-theatre productions as a cellist, most recently with Kevin Crawford (Italy, France, USA). She has followed extensive workshops on choir direction, vocal performance for actors and clown work. She has co-directed workshops at the Roy Hart centre (France) and at Teatro Nunc in Castiglion Fiorentino (Tuscany Italy), developing an original approach to voicework using the cello as support and inspiration. She has brought these skills to the corporate world, collaborating in trainings with Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.
27 August 2026
Enzo Del Dottore
TRIO AROTA - PIANO
Enzo Del Dottore was born in Arezzo, where he began his musical studies. He continued his training in Florence under the guidance of Maestro Giorgio Sacchetti, with whom he earned a Diploma in
Piano at the "F. Morlacchi" Conservatory (Perugia), and furthered his studies in subsequent years. At the same time, he studied Score Analysis and Reading with Maestro Romano Pezzati, and then earned a Diploma in Choral Music and Choral Conducting at the "L. Cherubini" Conservatory (Florence). He attended advanced piano courses with internationally renowned maestros such as Orazio Frugoni and Giancarlo Cardini, and piano accompaniment courses with Maestros Dalton Baldwin and Irwin Gage. He also studied Composition with Maestro Gaetano Giani Luporini and attended Composition Courses with Maestro Salvatore Sciarrino.
He obtained a two-year scientific specialisation in Music Education, Cultures, and Repertoires from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and has attended professional qualification and refresher courses at the "R. Goitre" Study Center in Bobbio, the Fiesole School of Music, and other schools and institutions.
He has performed in Italy and abroad as a solo pianist, accompanist, and harpsichord maestro in chamber music and orchestral groups, as well as a choir and ensemble director. He served as a Tutor, Pianist, and Harpsichord Maestro in the orchestra for the Operas and productions staged in the 1999 theatrical season at the “Dovizi” Theater in Bibbiena (AR): (Handel’s “Tamerlano,” “Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda,” “Il ballo delle Ingrate” by Monteverdi), working in particular as a Piano Assistant for the Maestro Conductor Gianpiero Taverna (G.Puccini’s “Boheme,” “La bella Galatea” by F. von Suppè).
He founded and directed Choirs, Children’s and Youth Choirs, and vocal-instrumental Ensembles, such as, in 2006, the “Vox Aurea” Cultural Association, of which he was Artistic Director and President, organizing Conferences, Concerts, and Advanced Courses for the same. He has transcribed and published several unpublished cantatasfor voice and continuo by the Arezzo musician Antonio Cesti (Anteo Editions 2009 and 2011).
27 August 2026
Daniel Boeke
TRIO AROTA - CLARINET
Daniel Boeke (born in 1988) is a Dutch clarinetist based in Italy. He earned his master's degree with Cum Laude in 2013 from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he studied under Pierre Woudenberg, specializing in modern and contemporary repertoire, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician and ensemble player. During his studies, he participated in masterclasses with Karl Leister, Martin Fröst, and Michael Collins.
While studying, he also took part in the Ligeti Academy with ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, directed by Reinbert de Leeuw and Bas Wiegers. In 2013, he performed a series of concerts throughout the Netherlands alongside his teacher, Pierre Woudenberg as a part of the Meester en Gezel program. Between 2013 and 2020 he collaborated regularly with ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble as a guest musician.
Between 2008 and 2013 he was part of Ricciotti Ensemble, an orchestra dedicated to bringing a broad range of orchestral music in mostly unconventional settings and places. With them he performed over 500 concerts over the course of 5 years in the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, Russia, and Poland
He has also played as a guest musician with Rotterdam Symphonia, Rotterdam Ensemble, Philharmonia Amsterdam, Philharmonia Zuid, Nederlands Jeugd Orkest, and Kosovo Philharmonic.
In 2014, he worked as a musician and actor/interpreter in the production "Kopernikus" by Claude Vivier, presented by De Nederlandse Opera/NJO, marking his first encounter with musical theater. He also participated in the production "De Soprano's" by Opera Zuid/ICK Amsterdam. His love for performance, not only as a musician but also as an 'actor/interpreter,' and his exploration of physicality in playing an instrument are among the primary interests in his artistic journey.
Since 2013, he has been a founding member and musician of Oerknal, a contemporary music ensemble that engages in interdisciplinary collaborations, seeking new and unique artistic overlaps and ways to renew the concert experience and audience engagement. With Oerknal, he performs a diverse repertoire of contemporary music by composers such as John Zorn, Morton Feldman, Jason Eckhardt, David Lang, Lewis Nielson, and many young composers who write specifically for the ensemble. The group has performed, lectured, and taught contemporary music in various parts of Europe (Netherlands, Greece, Kosovo, Italy, Turkey).
Since 2017, he has been a member of the art-rock band Sycamore Age, which released its third studio album in 2020. With Sycamore Age, he explores the possibilities of the (bass) clarinet within the realm of ‘pop’ music, discovering new textures and ways to use the instrument in the genre, including the use of electronics and sound manipulation with pedals. He has also collaborated with several other bands, including Navarone (NL), Andrea Chimenti (IT), These New Puritans (GB), Black Country New Road (GB), 1000 Robota (DE), Fast Animals and Slow Kids (IT), ATLITW (GB), Slick Nova Family (IT), and Gooseboard (NL).
Since 2020, he has been a member of Stargaze (NL/DE), an ensemble that blurs the boundaries between contemporary music and rock/pop/experimental music, producing innovative projects and collaborations with musicians and performers from across the musical spectrum (David Longstreth, Boards of Canada, Damon Albarn, Lisa Hannigan, Arone Dyer, Morris Kliphuis, etc.). With Stargaze, he has performed throughout Europe (IT, NL, DE, GB, IE, CH, FI).
As of 2022 he is also part of MiMic (Meaningful Music in Healthcare), a group of musicians that perform music and person-centered improvisations for patients and nurses in several hospital wards across the Netherlands.
Since 2023 he is also active as a music educator, giving music workshops to children aimed at bringing knowledge of world music and with it helping to form human bonds that transcend cultures and borders.
Through improvisation, Daniel Boeke unleashes his creativity and experiments with new expressive possibilities, combining his broad musical interests ranging from from classical and contemporary music to pop and world music. His ability to adapt to the present moment, listen to other musicians, and respond with spontaneity and intuition gives his performances a unique and vibrant character.
