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Roberta Pili
3+ albums
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Roberta Pili was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, and comes from a musical family background. She had her first piano lesson at the age of five with her father, a musician and piano teacher. At the age of eight she won three first prizes at national youth piano competitions. At the age of eleven she began her studies at the music conservatory of her hometown with Angela Pintor, a student of Lodovico Lessona, who was one of the best pupils of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. She made her first public appearance at the age of twelve with a solo recital in Cagliari. During her studies Roberta Pili won several other prizes at national piano competitions in Italy. At the age of seventeen she concluded her studies at the Conservatory with the highest degree and honours. Masterclasses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy with Joaquin Achucarro and Paul Badura-Skoda led her to further studies at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Badura-Skoda. She completed her musical education with the Concert Diploma and Master of Arts. During her formal musical education she also received guidance from Jürgen Uhde on Beethoven's last piano sonatas, further from Dmitri Bashkirov. Though she received the ultimate impulse for her personal musical improvement and unique style of interpretation from the Welsh composer, conductor and pianist Dafydd Llywelyn, who taught her especially on polyphony and ultra-polyphony. Roberta Pili won several prizes at internati