Biography
Italian pianist and conductor Valeria Racco won the prestigious position of Trainee Repetiteur in English National Opera. She will be involved in Aida, Barber of Seville and in the world premiere of Marnie by Nico Muhly.
Valeria has been involved in several productions as a repetiteur and vocal coach in Guildhall School of Music and Drama during her studies fully supported by Leverhulme Arts Trust.
She has collaborated with many conductors such as Dominic Wheeler, Tim Redmond, Mark Shanahan and Holly Mathieson.
She also studied conducting with Dominic Wheeler,Holly Mathieson, Toby Purser, Tim Redmond, and Ivo Venkov. Recently she was assistant conductor in “The rape of Lucretia” by B. Britten.
She started her career as soloist performing in several occasions. She did her debut in Flagey Theatre in Brussel performing Funerailles by Liszt.
Valeria is able to adapt in a versatile repertoire:
she performed with orchestra “Piccolo concerto per Muriel Couvreux” by Luigi Dallapiccola conducted by Dimitris Spouras, “Third piano concerto” by Beethoven conducted by Pascal Van Os and Haydn piano concerto in D major with Ravenna Orcehstra.
Furthermore she had occasion to perform in different Operas as harpsichord player where she received excellent reviews by The Guardian,The Times and BachTrack magazine.
She has been invited by Amsterdam National Opera to take part to the ENOA Workshop leaded by David Gowland, Klauss Sallmann, Peter Lockwood and Boudewijn Jansen.
She worked for several years with the American soprano Stephanie Friede in The Royal Conservatorium of Antwerp. In the past four years she have been invited to play for Summer Singing Course Beveren with Ann Rodiger, John Norris, Carroll Freeman, Abbie Furmansky, Thomas Allen, Gary Jankowski, Stephanie Friede, Kay Paschal Freeman and Walewein Witte.
Richard Morrison