About me

Modern orchestra

Giulia began playing the flute in Florence at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory. After graduating, she was a student of Chiara Tonelli. In 2003, she moved to Vienna to continue her studies with Dieter Flury (principal flutist of the Wiener Philharmoniker) and got her Master of Arts degree at the at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. She attended masterclasses of James Galway, Chiara Tonelli and Patrick Gallois at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Besides her chamber music activity, Giulia has performed with many orchestras such as the Neue Oper Wien, the Symphonieorchester des Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth, the KlangImpuls Orchester Graz, as well as the European Philharmonic Orchestra. She regularly plays with Spira Mirabilis and substitutes in the Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper (Wiener Philharmoniker).

Historical instruments

Since 2006 Giulia has dedicated herself to the study of the performance practice, playing on historical instruments which she studied with Mathias von Brenndorff, Marcello Gatti and more recently Lisa Beznosiuk. In 2009 she graduated from the “Formation Supérieure” of the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique in France. With this orchestra she has performed under Alfredo Bernardini, Philippe Herreweghe, Bernard Labadie, Robert Levin, Marc Minkowski, Hervé Niquet, Andreas Spering and David Stern. Through the JOA Giulia received a scholarship to partecipate in the Tafelmusik Baroque Academy 2009 in Toronto, where she had lessons with Claire Guimond.
She performs with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment – as part of the Ann and Peter Law Experience -, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the Wiener Akademie.

Giulia is flutist and founding member of the Symphonie Fantastique, an orchestra performing Romantic repertoire exclusively on 19th Century Viennese instruments.

Electroacoustic instruments

After studying Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatory of Florence, Giulia won a scholarship for one year at Fabrica Benetton, a center founded by Oliviero Toscani and Luciano Benetton for exploring artistical expression and communication. While at Fabrica, she worked on projects with musicians and composers such as Claudio Ambrosini, the Kronos Quartet and the Balanescu Quartet.