Franca Bertoli
Administrator – Italy
After graduating with honors in Udine under Ugo Cividino, she perfected her studies in Trieste and Salzburg under Carlo Zecchi, in Vienna under Walter Panhofer, in Lyon with Peter Feuchtwanger, Jacques Chapuis and Edith Picht Axenfeld.
Alongside her intense solo activity, she has devoted herself to collaborating with chamber groups of various types, and in particular, since 1980, with Ugo Cividino for two pianos. In this formation, she has been a guest at numerous international festivals and concert and cultural organizations in Europe, including: La Roque d’Anthéron” Piano Festival, Wimbledon (London), Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, Zagreb Music Academy, Oslo Music Academy, Salamanca Conservatory, Hochschule Graz, Salzburg and Wien, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Matinée musicali in Palermo, ORF (Austrian Radio) with a two-piano concert broadcast live on the radio, Croatian Radio Television in Zagreb (with two concerts broadcast in their entirety a few hours after the performance and a televised concert).
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In 1988, the duo released a CD in Hanover featuring music by B.Martinu and J.Françaix (both world premieres) and Brahms. Also as a duo, she took part in the “J.S.Bach” CD with the young Piccola Accademia orchestra, recording the C minor concerto for two pianos. She subsequently recorded all the works of F. Gaubert for flute and piano with Claudio Montafia.
She is a regular participant in advanced training activities in Austria, France, Spain, Italy and a number of Eastern European countries. Recently, with Ugo Cividino, she gave a piano masterclass and several concerts, in piano duo and string quintet with piano, as a guest of the University of Houston in Texas.
A new CD with music by Saint-Saëns, Grieg and Brahms is in preparation. After obtaining the Diplôme Professionnel Didactique Willems®, she is passionately involved in teacher training in Edgar Willems’ music education methodology. Since 1989, she has been teaching and responsible for teacher training for the Willems® Pedagogical Diploma and Willems® Certificate with her husband Ugo on behalf of the International Willems® Federation of Lyon (France) for the Italian, Austrian and Slovenian territories.
After teaching at the “Buzzolla” conservatory in Adria, she has held the senior piano chair at the “J.Tomadini” conservatory in Udine since 1983.
Skills
- Foreign languages – French and English
- Translations from French and English
- For many years, she has also collaborated with the Conservatoire as a piano accompanist, and is now called upon to teach accompaniment.
- She also assists her husband, Ugo Cividino, in teaching piano duet literature.
- Chamber music with piano
- Piano duets
- Trainer of didactic frameworks in the field of musical and instrumental propaedeutics
- Extemporaneous teaching in summer courses at all levels