Maria Grazia Bellocchio

A piano graduate of the Milan Conservatory, professor at the “G. Donizetti” Conservatory in Bergamo, she plays for Italian and foreign concert institutions and gives piano and chamber music master classes. A chamber musician, he has played with such performers as Accardo, Filippini, Giuranna and Petracchi. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporaries. For the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, he created “Viaggio in Italia – Nuovo canzoniere popolare – 20 popular songs transcribed by 20 composers.” He collaborates with Divertimento Ensemble, is present at major festivals, since 2012 in the European network Ulysses. He has recorded for Ricordi and Stradivarius works by Maderna, Gorli, Donatoni, Gervasoni, Gardella, Bulfon, Momi, Ambrosini, Fedele and Kurtág.

Monica Cattarossi

She works in the field of chamber music, performing with prestigious artists such as Julius Berger, Enrico Dindo, Antonio Meneses, Dora Schwarzberg, Jing Zhao among others. He teaches chamber music at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and piano accompaniment at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. He has collaborated with the Mozarteum, Salzburg, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona, and is a member of the Chigiana Keyboard Ensemble. She has recorded for the Brilliant Classics label and Suonare News, and has a degree in Musicology.