Lucia D’Anna, Italian cellist.

Started to play the cello at a young age. She studied in Milano at the Conservatorio G. Verdi with Marco Bernardin; later she obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in cello performance and music pedagogy in the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland, with Taisuke Yamashita and Mattia Zappa. She took part in many masterclasses under the teaching of Dario De Stefano, Julius Berger in the summer school of Mozarteum Salzburg, Zvi Plesser, Enrico Bronzi. She became first cello of the Jugged sinfonie Orchester Aargau, she performed with the Jugend Bayerische orchestra and Jeunesse Musicales de Suisse. She took part in the Teatro alla Scala academy in Milano for two years and she was cello player in the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano. She performed in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, China, Israel. Currently she performs in solo recital, chamber music concerts in Israel. She had always great interest for contemporary music and baroque music. 

Regarding contemporary music, she took part in Neon and Caffeine festival in Lugano, ‘900 festival in Lugano, she performed premiere of living composers from different countries. She took a masterclass with the Arditti quartet in the class of Lucas Fels. She created with her father in law a show that combines Cello solo playing and live painting with ink and water.

She was always interested in Baroque music; she started to play baroque cello in Italy with Academia dell’Annunciata, an academy under the Giardino Armonico. She studied baroque cello with Marcello Scandelli, Martin Zeller, and Myrna Herzog. Later she dedicated time also to study Viola da gamba with Myrna Herzog at Tel Aviv conservatory. She took masterclasses with Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gaetano Nasillo, Paolo Beschi, Enrico Onofri, Enrico Gatti, and Wieland Kujken. 

She gave masterclasses for cellist in Italy (Reggio Emilia), in Ramallah. She is going to give seminars about teaching music to kids from different cultures and languages and in difficult social and environmental situations in Italy in Switzerland. She is going also to start a project supported by the Italian consulate in Jerusalem of training advanced students and young teachers to music pedagogy.

She created together with Luca Franzetti and Michele Cantoni EMAP, Ensembles music academies Palestine, in 2022 they did the first baroque academy in Bethlehem. 

At the moment she is Academic supervisor and cello teacher at the Magnificat Institute of Music in Jerusalem and artistic collaborator in Barenboim Said Foundation.

She created during the war a program to offer music to kids to alleviate their fear and to connect more with the community of East Jerusalem.

She collaborates also with the Italian Swiss radio RSI to creat contents for podcasts, she writes articles for La prealpina di Varese and Nazione Indiana (online magazine). Soon she is going to publish her first book of Tales.