Born in Trento, Italy, Stefania Neonato belongs to a generation of artists busy with historical performance practices on period instruments but also interested in bridging modern piano performance tradition and current historical research.
Landmarks in Neonato’s career are the encounters with Alexander Lonquich, Riccardo Zadra and Malcolm Bilson with whom she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance Practice at Cornell University.
In 2007 she got top prize and Audience Prize at the International Fortepiano Competition “Musica Antiqua” in Bruges. From then on she is guest at some of the most important early music festivals and concert seasons in Europe and USA (Van Vlaanderen in Bruges, Styriarte in Graz, Festival Mozart in Rovereto, KlaraFestival in Bruxelles, Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden, Boston-Early Music Festival, Kölner Fest für alte Musik, Regensburg-Tage Alter Musik, Potsdam Festspiele, Münster-Erbdrostenhof, Bologna-Accademia Filarmonica, Brescia-Teatro Grande, Florence-Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, Amici della Musica di Padova, Genoa - Giovine Orchestra Genovese, Madrid-Fundacion Juan March, Cornell Concert Series, Boston-Tufts University, Rome - Oratorio del Gonfalone, Vienna - Musikverein, Zagreb - Cristoforium, Lisbon - Noites de Queluz, Berlin - Alte Musik Live, Duisburger Philharmoniker – Duisburg, Haus der Musik Fruchtkasten – Stuttgart etc.).
In 2013 she was appointed Professor of historical pianos at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany.
Active as pedagogue in international masterclasses, she published for “Early Music” (Oxford Journals), “Keyboard Perspectives” (Westfield Center) and Mimesis Edition (Milan), presenting her research on piano aesthetics at several conferences around the globe.
Her repertoire ranges from Classicism to the 20th century; several recordings mark Stefania Neonato’s career featuring solo (Mozart, Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven, Alkan) and chamber music on period pianos (Schubert, Beethoven, von Weber, Hummel). In 2024 Beethoven Violin-Sonaten with Christine Busch will be published for SWR Label.
In 2012 and 2016 she was invited in the jury of the two first editions of the International Fortepiano Competition “Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari” in Rovereto, Italy. In 2018 she premiered and published Piano Music by G. G. Ferrari for Brilliant Classics.
A Beethoven December present, a suggestive one-hour film on performing his Bagatellen Op. 126 on two original historical pianos of the collection of Schloß Weißenbrunn. On some cold February days I and five fellow pianists got together to worship Beethoven in a very singular way. I hope you enjoy it! My warm thanks to Pia Praetorius and Yoel Culiner.
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In her work, Stefania Neonato has to “lose” herself in a variety of different sound-worlds, each one influenced by the personality of both composer and performer in relation with the original instrument for which the music was first conceived and written. This creates each time a unique mix, which has however been lost more recently, and which she tries to re-stage in her personal musical activity and in her teaching at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. https://www.hmdk-stuttgart.de/home/
In the video: The story of Stefania Neonato, narrated during a concert-rehearsal at the Stuttgart Musical Instruments Museum (Haus der Musik Fruchtkasten). See also https://www.germany.italiansofeurope.it/
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