Marina Scalafiotti

Marina Scalafiotti (born in Settimo Torinese, May 22, 1965) is an Italian pianist and teacher known for her interpretations spanning from baroque to contemporary music.

Biography

Education Marina Scalafiotti started studying piano at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of Turin, graduating with highest honors under Amelia Careggio. She studied harpsichord with Giorgio Tabacco at the same conservatory and chamber music with the Trio di Trieste at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.

She refined her skills with internationally renowned masters including Maria Golia, Lazar Berman, Orazio Frugoni, Boris Petrushansky, Boris Bloch and Vincenzo Balzani.

She has given masterclasses in Belgium, France and Spain, and has been invited as a guest lecturer under the Erasmus programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and McGill University in Montreal.

In 2025, on the centenary of Erik Satie's death, she participated as a speaker at the international conference Satie 2025 organized by the University of Turin, presenting in Honfleur, the composer's birthplace, the paper "Satie and the echo of irony: aesthetic filiations and pianistic incarnations in the composers of the Group of Six".

Cultural projects Marina Scalafiotti founded the association Orium APS, of which she is president, with the aim of creating a network between art, education and environment in the Canavese territory. The association organizes concerts in historic residences of the region, including castles and churches.

Through Orium APS, she organizes the concert series "AURA: Live Music, Living Places", a series of free concerts held in historic venues in Canavese, including the Castello ducale di Agliè and the Castle of Barone Canavese.

Since 2024 she has organized the Pianists Summer Retreat, a week of piano masterclasses in Orio Canavese with a "distributed school" format, with lessons held in various locations around the village.