Daniele Luca Zanghì

born in Catania, Italy, in 1995. Italian harpsichordist He began studying piano technique and interpretation with Pietro Piricone at a very early age, and then continued at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali V. Bellini in Catania under the guidance of Luca Ballerini. He obtained his Diploma in Piano with honours and distinction during the academic year of 2013-14, and that same year graduated from high school in Catania as well. By 2017, he had also completed an MA in Music Pedagogy with honours at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana under Anna Kravtchenko, after which he began a further MA in Harpsichord Performance under Stefano Molardi. In 2018 he won a scholarship awarded by the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana Foundation as overall best student. He has won prizes in various contests, including the Città di Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto piano competition and the Research section of Certamen Sebinum. His has played in chamber ensembles and the basso continuo part in orchestras in numerous concerts, including the Second International Interactiv Music Radio Festival Trimontiada in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), the Sala Vanni in Florence with the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana orchestra conducted by Mario Ancillotti, the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali V. Bellini in Catania, the LAC Lugano (Lugano Arte e Cultura), the Organ Antegnati Festival of Bellinzona, the Marianischer Saal of Lucerne, the Musikschule Konservatorium in Zurich during a Swiss tour with the Camerata Luzern.