Virginia Benini

Born in Riva del Garda in 2001, she began studying piano at the age of eight, under the guidance of Prof. Enrico Toccoli. She later joined Prof. Maria Grazia Petrali’s class at the “F. A. Bonporti” Conservatory in Trento.
She has participated in several competitions, national and international, always ranking in the top positions. These include the Steinway competition, “City of Oleggio,” “Crescendo Prize,” “Brunelli Prize,” “City of Scandicci,” “Remo Vinciguerra,” “Riviera della Versilia,” “City of Venice,” “Giubitosi,” “Laszlò Spezzaferri,” “City of Treviso,” “Antonio Salieri,” “City of Moncalieri,” ” City of S. Donà di Piave,” and “City of Riccione.”
Since 2015 she has joined the class of Prof. Massimiliano Mainolfi. She has taken part in masterclasses given by several internationally renowned pianists including Benedetto Lupo, Dmitry Alexeev, Pavel Gililov, Bruno Canino, Oxana Yablonskaya, Rena Shereshevskaya, Alexander Kobrin, Wolfgang Manz, Lovro Pogorelich, Andreas Frölich, Alexander Meinel, Mats Widlung, Enrica Ciccarelli, Andrea Turini, Valery Pyasetsky, Pavel Nersessian, Natalia Bogdanova, Laura Pietrocini . She has performed in Italy, Germany, France, Russia, and Sweden. She has given recitals at the Red Army Headquarters in Moscow on the occasion of the celebration of 100 years since the Russian Revolution, at the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, at the prestigious Sala Laudamo of the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina, at the Philharmonic Society of Rovereto and Trento, for the Monferrato Classic Festival, at the A.I.A.R.P. national convention to name a few. She attended the annual master class at the S. Cecilia Music Foundation in Portogruaro with pianist Alessandro Taverna. She is an effective student of Maestro Konstantin Bogino at the International Academy of Music in Rome and the Perosi Academy in Biella.
In 2020 she graduated from the “Marco Polo” high school in Venice and in 2021 she attended the Erasmus semester at the Hochschule “F. Liszt” in Weimar with Prof. Christian Wilm Müller. She received her undergraduate academic degree with highest honors from the F.A. Bonporti Conservatory in Trento. As a chamber musician, she has performed in various ensembles and attended masterclasses with Bruno Canino, Pavel Berman, Enrico Dindo, Simone Gramaglia, Alexey Stadler, Antonio Valentino, Eckart Runge, Corrado Ruzza, Oliver Wille. She forms a stable duo with violist Vittorio Benaglia, with whom she has performed at the Philharmonic Society of Trento, at Palazzo Spinola in Genova for GOG, at the Accademia Filarmonica del Mediterraneo in Trani, in Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, at the Sala Musa in Como, and for the Corale Verdi in Parma.
He is attending the Master of Arts in Music Performance at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, in the class of M° Federico Colli.