Barbara Petrucci

Barbara Petrucci, was born in Rome. She studied in Italy and Austria with the pianist Delia Pizzardi, the harpsichordists Emilia Fadini and Gordon Murray, the musicologist Claudio Gallico.

For thirty-eight years she has been playing as a harpsichord and fortepiano soloist and continuo player in several early music groups, also recording compact discs of French and Italian 18th-century music. She performed in important early music festivals in many towns in Europe, Argentina, Brazil, USA, Yemen, Russia, Turkey, and recorded concerts for Italian RAI-TV, Swiss Radio, Brazilian Cultural Television, and many Italian and foreign radio networks.

Her repertoire ranges from Italian 16th century masters to the last 18th century composers for harpsichord and fortepiano, particularly French. As a music critic she contributed to Italian wide circulation newspapers and magazines and, as a teacher, she gives master-classes on performance practice of chamber and harpsichord music in pre-classic era.

Her first studies on women and music date back to 1982, when she contributed to the exhibition Esistere come donna. She carried out the musical project of the cd “Note femminili”, a homage to women composers in Lombardy produced by Provincia di Milano. Together with Pinuccia Carrer she edited the keyboard works and wrote the first biography of the 18th-century composer Teresa Agnesi. She has been teaching harpsichord in Italian state conservatoires for more than thirty years; she is Harpsichord and Historical Keyboards professor at Conservatorio “N. Paganini” of Genoa.