Valentina Danelon, Yulia Berinskaya & Anna Serova
Biography Valentina Danelon, Yulia Berinskaya & Anna Serova
Valentina Danelon
Born in 1985 and graduated in Violin with full marks at the Conservatory of Music of Castelfranco Veneto with Michele Lot, she continued her studies at the University of Music of Lugano with Valeri Gradow, graduating brilliantly in Music Pedagogy – Violin. She has specialized particularly with Yulia Berinskaya and Renato Zanettovich.
Regarding chamber music she graduated with Honor at the International Chamber Music School of Trio di Trieste in duo with the pianist Beatrice Orlandi, under the guidance of Renato Zanettovich, Dario De Rosa, Maureen Jones and Trio di Parma.
She has played as soloist with I Solisti Veneti, conducted by Claudio Scimone, Nuova Orchestra da Camera Busoni di Trieste, Naonis Symphonic Orchestra and others.
She has won several prizes, such as the first prize in XVIII Rospigliosi International Chamber Music Competition, XXVI Caraian Chamber Music Award and XI Canetti International Music Festival (France), in addition to other awards and scholarships.
She has performed as chamber musician in many festivals and she has given concerts in Europe, Russia, the United States, South America, China and Japan.
Concerning contemporary music she has collaborated with Sentieri Selvaggi, Ensemble '900 and FuturQuartetto, performing also for Radio Svizzera Italiana and for Radio3.
As a result of auditions, she started collaborating with renowed orchestras including Gran Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Italian National Symphonic Orchestra RAI, I Solisti Veneti, and others, collaborating with conductors such as Chung, Gardiner, Temirkanov, Valčuha.
Since 2020 she shares with Stefan Milenkovich the artistic direction of International Music Festival Nei suoni dei luoghi and she is the artistic directorof Orchestra Sinfonica della Versilia.
Since particularly fond of chamber music, she is currently participating in several ensemble projects, with harpist Nicoletta Sanzin, with violinist Yulia Berinskaya and violist Anna Serova, and with pianist Cristina Santin.
Yulia Berinskaya
was born into an artistic and musical environment; her precocious talent was discovered at an early age by her father Sergey Berinsky, among the greatest composers of the 20th century in Moskow, and he encouraged her to study violin.
Her training and her extraordinary musical potential were encouraged and
cultivated by internationally renowned artists such as E. Tchugaeva and V.
Tretiakov, the Borodin Quartet, the Moskov Trio, who guided Yulia to graduate
with honors from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
She then continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna under the tuition of D. Schwarzberg. Afterward, Yulia began a brilliant career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, acclaimed in Italy and abroad: Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, USA, Israel, Russia.
Her recitals represent her quality as a versatile artist, and her virtuosity
accompanies many diverse styles. She has had prestigious collaborations with several orchestras: Verdi Orchestra in Milan, The Milan Conservatory Orchestra, Moskow Amadeus Orchestra, Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Orchestra
and I Musici di Parma ensemble.
Being a passionate chamber musician, she has being invited to some of the major Italian and European festivals, performing alongside artists including: S. Krilov, Y Bashmet, D. Cohen, V. Mendelssohn, F. Lips. Yulia regularly gives masterclasses in Mendrisio (Switzerland), Timisoara (Romania), Rhodes (Greece), Mulin de Andee (France), Portogruaro (Italy), Venice (Italy); she ha also founded her own violin course at the Milano Music Masterschool academy and is regularly a jury member of the international violin competition.
Yulia has performed as a guest leader with the following orchestras: Teatro SanCarlo in Naples, Orchestra of Trento and Bolzano, Orchestra Earl (Austria), Teatro La Fenice in Venice, The Philharmonic Orchestra of Ljubljana.
She records for the record labels: Koch Records (Germany) and Gramsapis ArtClassic (Russia), Sonart Studio, Playing News, ClassicaViva, LimenMusic (Italy). Yulia recorded the CDs Red Violin, Violin in Blue, Violin in White and Violin in Bach, and with Limen Records she has released a double CD and a live DVD box set: Bear in the Sky – Unconditional Music. Her recordings are regularly broadcasted by Radio Vaticana, Radio Classica, Radio della Svizzera Italiana.
Anna Serova
A unique figure on the international scene both as soloist and chamber musician, the violist Anna Serova has several compositions dedicated to her in recent years by some of the most important contemporary composers. In fact, by writing for her they have created a new genre in composition uniting the form of the concert piece with the action of the theatre.
She has been collaborating for years with Roberto Molinelli, an Italian composer who has dedicated to her several pieces, such as “Milonga y Chacarera” for viola & orchestra, “Aeraqua” for viola and violin, and the project “Tango all’Opera”. In 2017, Anna Serova played the world premiere of “Lady Walton’s Garden”, Concerto for Viola, Orchestra and Tanguero by R.Molinelli, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington. The piece was selected as “Premiere of the month” by the English magazine “The Strad” in September 2017.
After studying with Vladimir Stopicev at the Conservatory of St Petersburg, with Bruno Giuranna at the Acacdemy of Cremona and with Juri Bashmet at the Acacdemy of Chigiana in Sienna, she began a brilliant career as a concert musician which saw her starring in some of the most important concert seasons and festivals in Italy and abroad.
The warm, shining beauty of her sound makes her very much in demand as a chamber musician and she has collaborated with artists like Ivry Gitils, Bruno Giuranna, Salvatore Accardo, Rocco Filippini, Filippo Faes, Toby Hoffman, Rainer Honeck, Remus Azoitei and others.
She has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Moscow State Symphony, Siberian Symphony, Karelian Symphony, Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico, Belgrade Philharmonic, Amazonas Philharmonica, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona, Croation Radio Television, New Zealand Symphony etc…
Her CDs released by DECCA, NAXOS, BRILLIANT CLASSICS, VELUT LUNA, and RED DRESS have been praised by critics and earned awards and recognitions, such as “5 stars award” by “Musica” Magazine, ICMA Nominee, and Pizzicato Supersonic Award.
Her judging experience includes “Lipizer”, “Città di Brescia”, “Carlo Soliva international competitions. In addition, she has been appointed the Honorary President of the Violin Makers Competition “Anlai 2015”, held in Cremona.
As a historical consultant and a featured artist, Anna Serova participated in two documentary films about the art of violin making in Cremona for Russian TV channel “Kultura”.
Anna Serova is happy to offer her art for charity: she has recorded two CDs dedicated to the project “End Polio Now” by Rotary International playing the precious Amati Viola 1615 “La Stauffer” owned by Fondazione Stauffer in Cremona.
In March 2016 Anna Serova has been awarded by STANDOUT WOMAN AWARD 2016.
From 2017 she is a testimonial of the Association CCVI in Multiple Sclerosis.
In June 2006 the Administration of the City of Krasnoyarsk conferred on Anna Serova the title of Attaché for Cultural and Trade Relations. Thanks to her tireless work, shortly afterwards a protocol promoting the organisation of cultural, commercial and administrative exchanges between the vast Central Siberian region and Italy, was signed by Cremona and Krasnoyarsk.
Anna Serova frequently holds viola and chamber music masterclasses in Italy, Russia and South America and participates in many festivals, including Campo do Jordao (San Paolo, Brazil), Europe – Siberia (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), Cremona International Music Academies (Italy), Livorno Music Festival (Italy), Wienzierl Musik Fest (Vienna, Austria), Royal Academy of Music (London – GB) and others.
Anna Serova is Professor of Viola at the “E.R.DUNI” CONSERVATORY (Matera, Italy) and Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at the FONDAZIONE ACCADEMIA PEROSI (Biella, Italy).
