Giulia Ballaré was born in 1987 in Novara, Italy, and started playing guitar at age nine. She graduated with top honours in 2012 from the “Guido Cantelli” conservatory in Novara under Guido Fichtner, and attended masterclasses with figures including Oscar Ghiglia, David Russell, Pavel Steidl and Aniello Desiderio.

Ballaré has won more than 30 international prizes, including first prizes at the Andrés Segovia competition (Linares, 2018), Ciudad de Coria (Spain, 2017) and Forum Gitarre Wien (Austria, 2016). She has performed at venues including the Musikverein Wien, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the International House of Music in Moscow, and released the albums “Lirically Spain” (2013) and “Untuned Guitar” (2019).

Sources:

• https://www.giuliaballare.com/about
• https://www.wfimc.org/artists/giulia-ballare