Daria Bolcati

Celtic harp

She got a diploma with full marks at Vicenza Conservatory in 1992 and she continued studying harp with Elisabetta Ghebbioni.

In 1988 she won the U.F.A.M. contest in Paris ( category “Moyen 2 “ ) and in 1989 she won a grant at AULO’S show in Rimini. In 1993 she came second in the “Schubert” National Contest at Tagliolo Monferrato. In 1996 she took part in the international harp contest “ Arpista Ludovico” at San Lorenzo de el Escorial , Madrid. She also partecipated to the first and the fourth show “Rassegna E. Vio” at Asolo as the best harp student of the Triveneto conservatories.  She  co-operated with “Teatro Olimpico Città di Vicenza” Orchestra and Choir; she also worked with “tammittam, a group of contemporary music with whom she performed several concerts and recorded material.

She attended specializing courses with J. Borot at Nice, F. Pierre at Castelfranco Veneto and with J. Liber, first at the Academy of Music of Florence and the Music School of Pistoia and then in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Since 1997 she has been a harp teacher at Scuola Musicale Primiero (Trento) and she has starter harp courses at the Veneto Music Academy in Vicenza and by the Scuola di Musica of Valdagno.

In 2002 and in 2003 she has attended professional training courses in order to specialize in music teaching methods by the “A. Steffani” Conservatory at Castelfranco.

Currently she works -  both at home and abroad – as a solo player and with groups like Antiqua Celtica and the Celtic Harp Ensemble.