« Le disque entier est un régal, Schivazappa est parfaite: technique, timbre, élan, émotion, elle nous captive »


Olivier Fourés, Diapason, October 2019


« Mandolinist Anna Schivazappa, playing a selection of instruments in different tunings, justifies the proposition with neat and nimble, strongly rhythmic playing »


Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine, August 2019

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Tue
    19
    Nov
    2024

    Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

    Paris (F)

    Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie
    "Vivaldi straordinario"

  • Mon
    20
    Jan
    2025

    Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

    Paris (F)

    Mozart - Don Giovanni
    Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie

  • Sat
    07
    Jun
    2025

    Festival de Pentecôte

    Château de Bois-Préau (F)

    Mandolin and piano duo with Jos van Immerseel

BIOGRAPHY

« Une mandoline virtuose, expressive, bien phrasée, des arpèges délicieux, une justesse parfaite, un bel élan… Une musicienne complète ! » 

« Le Joueur de Luth », Société Française du Luth, 2017

EN · FR · IT 

A specialist in historical mandolins, Anna Schivazappa is rapidly gaining international recognition for her brilliant virtuosity and inventive interpretations of baroque and classical repertoire. A versatile musician, she is at ease in both early music and in contemporary works, performing on a variety of historical and modern plucked string instruments.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Anna is regularly invited to major festivals and concert seasons all over Europe and abroad, including Festival MITO SettembreMusica, Festival de Sablé, Sypert Concert Series, Les Concerts de Midi, Festival Embar(o)quement Immédiat, Italian Cultural Institute (Sydney, Hong Kong), Festival Sinfonia en Périgord, Festival Midis Minimes, Costa Rica Music Festival…

Always eager to expand her music horizons, she has collaborated as a performer and recording artist with Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), ensemble Matheus (J. C. Spinosi) and the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris, among others, and is a founding member of duo Dialogos, together with pianist Michela Chiara Borghese.

In 2012, she founded the ensemble Pizzicar Galante, together with harpsichordist Fabio Antonio Falcone, with the aim of rediscovering the original 18th-century repertoire for mandolin and continuo. Pizzicar Galante’s two albums, released by Brilliant Classics and Arcana, have been unanimously praised by the specialized press (nomination to the International Classical Music Awards 2017, 5/5 “Diapasons”, Toccata “CD-Tipp”…).

They have also been broadcast by international radio stations, including RAI Radio 3, Spanish RTVE, France Musique and BBC.

Recent highlights include concerto performances at Festival de Sablé with Ensemble Jupiter directed by Thomas Dunford (live broadcast by France Télévisions), and the world-premiere performance of the Fandango by Giulio Castagnoli at the MiTo SettembreMusica Festival 2019.

A native of Padova, Italy, Anna Schivazappa graduated from the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini where she studied with Ugo Orlandi. In 2015, she received a master’s degree in Performance Practice of Early Music, summa cum laude, from the Université Paris-Sorbonne and the Pôle Supérieur de Paris-Boulogne. In June 2018, she has been awarded a medal from the Académie Arts Sciences et Lettres in Paris, for her contribution to the rediscovery and dissemination of the repertoire of the baroque mandolin.

Besides her concert activity, Anna holds a PhD in musicology at Sorbonne University and gives masterclasses, conferences and seminars in important European institutions such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and the Milan Conservatory. Since 2017, she is associate musician-researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which awarded her a “bourse d’excellence” for her projects on the original mandolin repertoire.

Anna is living in Paris and performs on a Neapolitan mandolin by Antonius Vinaccia dating from 1768.

PIZZICAR GALANTE

DUO DIALOGOS

MEDIAS

VIDEOS

Scarlatti // 'Mandolin Sonatas' by Pizzicar Galante
Domenico Scarlatti

Sonata in a minor K 61

(CD Teaser)

Valentini: Mandolin sonata op. 12 n. 6 - Adagio (LIVE on Radio France)
Roberto Valentini

Mandolin sonata op. 12 n. 6

Adagio (LIVE)

Anonyme français du XVIIe siècle : La Fürstenberg (LIVE on Radio France)
Anonyme français du XVIIe siècle

La Fürstenberg

(LIVE on France Musique)

A. Vivaldi - Concerto pour mandoline RV 425 | Anna Schivazappa & Ensemble Jupiter | Thomas Dunford
Antonio Vivaldi

Mandolin concerto in C major, RV 425

Allegro – Largo – [Allegro] (LIVE at Festival de Sablé)

ALBUMS

LATEST RELEASE

Un Air d’Italie. The Mandolin in Paris in the 18th century

5 de Classica, 5 étoiles de Musica

Marc Mauillon, tenor
Pizzicar Galante
Anna Schivazappa, mandolin & direction
Ronald Martin Alonso, viola da gamba
Daniel de Morais, theorbo
Maria Christina Cleary, harp
Anna Fontana, harpsichord

Arcana A 552

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SCARLATTI | MANDOLIN SONATAS

5/5 Diapason, Toccata “CD-Tipp”

Pizzicar Galante

Anna Schivazappa, baroque mandolin
Fabio Antonio Falcone, harpsichord
Ronald Martin Alonso, viola da gamba
Daniel de Morais, theorbo

Arcana A 115, RELEASE May 24th, 2019

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VALENTINI | COMPLETE MANDOLIN SONATAS
Works by Roberto Valentini and Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni

Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2017

Pizzicar Galante
Anna Schivazappa, baroque mandolin
Fabio Antonio Falcone, harpsichord
Ronald Martin Alonso, viola da gamba
Daniel de Morais, theorbo

Brilliant Classics 95257

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LIBERTÀ ! MOZART ET L’OPÉRA
Works by Mozart, Paisiello, Martín y Soler, Salieri

Ensemble Pygmalion – Raphaël Pichon

Sabine Devieilhe | Siobhan Stagg | Serena Malfi | Linard Vrielink | John Chest | Nahuel Di Pierro

Harmonia Mundi HMM 902638.39
Release August 30th, 2019

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AN UNEXPECTED MOZART

Featuring Mozart’s lieder with mandolin accompaniment

Marc Mauillon, tenor & Anna Schivazappa, mandolin

Harmonia Mundi HMM90239697, RELEASE October 2022

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O SOLE MIO | MANDOLIN CONCERTOS & SONGS

Featuring Vivaldi’s concerto for two mandolins

Julien Martineau & Anna Schivazappa, mandolins

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Wilson Ng

Naïve V-8120, RELEASE September 2023

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