Antonia Valente

She studied piano with Benedetto Lupo and Roberto Bollea at the Nino Rota Conservatory in Italy and in Elza Kolodin’s class at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. She has also trained with Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Robert Levin, Stefania Santangelo, François-Joël Thiollier, Filippo Gamba, Andrej Jasinskzi and Konstantin Bogino, as well as with Jörg Widmann, Muriel Cantoreggi, Jan Philip Schulze and Justus Zeyen in chamber music. She has been awarded prizes in several international competitions and has developed a career as a chamber performer alongside soloists in the instrumental and Lieder repertoire. She has been an accompanying professor at the Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz in Hanover and a professor at the Lecce Conservatory of Music. Since 2015, she has been an accompanying pianist professor in the BBVA Foundation Viola Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music.