A specialist in historical mandolins, Anna Schivazappa is rapidly gaining international recognition for her brilliant virtuosity and inventive interpretations of baroque and classical repertoire. Anna is regularly invited, as a soloist or with her ensemble, Pizzicar Galante, 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 prominent international ensembles such as Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), ensemble Matheus (J. C. Spinosi) and the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris, performing in prestigious venues such as the Paris Philharmonie, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, La Grange au Lac, the Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Wrocław... 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. Anna is living in Paris and performs on a Neapolitan mandolin by Antonius Vinaccia dating from 1768.