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Aurora Orsini is an Italian classical guitarist born in Rome in 1997. She earned her first Master’s degree in classical guitar at the age of twenty, studying with Giampaolo Bandini, Stefano Grondona and Lorenzo Micheli, and in 2023 completed a postgraduate master’s degree in Classical Guitar Interpretation at the University of Alicante in Spain, supported by a Guitarras Alhambra scholarship. She also studied at the Chigiana Academy under Oscar Ghiglia and Eliot Fisk, earning the best student’s diploma, and in 2017 studied in Budapest at the Liszt Academy with József Eotvos. Her teachers have also included David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Pablo Márquez, Xavier Diaz-Latorre and Sergio Assad.
Orsini has performed across Italy, Hungary, Spain and England. In 2020 she placed second for a guitarist position at Florence’s Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, leading to her participation in a production of Verdi’s Otello under Zubin Mehta. In chamber music she performs with soprano Sofia Celenza as the Estra Duo. In 2023 she received a scholarship from the International Guitar Foundation (IGF) of London.
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