"Matilda
Colliard is a talented and very promising young musician who approaches
classical music with great professionalism"
F. Berthold
- Cellist and Artistic Director of the Festival "International Chamber
Music Festival Lago di Garda”
"Matilda
Colliard has the talent for making us listen to very famous music
again as if it were the first time with often a
new point
of view"
Luca
Ciammarughi - Musicologist, Radio Conductor and Pianist
"From
the sphere of sweet beauty to that of a wise sound (…) the step is
a short one:
a wisdom that includes how to" hint "the sound, how to enunciate it (…)"
Andrea
Bedetti - Journalist and Professor of Philosophy and Musical Aesthetics of
UniTre (Milan)
Born into a family of musicians, Matilda
began studying cello at the age of 4 and she graduated at the Novara
Conservatory with highest honors.
She specialized in the repertoire for cello
and piano and piano trio at the Academy of Sesto Fiorentino, the Academy of
Fusignano and at the prestigious Academy of Imola.
She attended at the same time the "Santa
Cecilia" Academy in Portogruaro with cellists Enrico Bronzi and G.
Gnocchi.
During her studies, Matilda had the
opportunity to be guided also by cellists Marianne Chen, Rafael Rosenfeld, Macha
Yanouchevsky, Frieder Berthold and pianists Pier Narciso Masi and Konstantin
Bogino.
She is the Winner of several international
competitions including European Music Competition - Moncalieri, National Music
Competition “Riviera della Versilia”-Tuscany, International Competition
Anemos - Rome, International Music Competition London “Grand Prize Virtuoso”
(London).
At the “Gran Prize Virtuoso” award ceremony
she performed at the prestigious “Royal
Albert Hall” in London.
The following year she was invited to perform at the Italian
Cultural Institute of London and in the well-known church of St. Martin in the
Fields.
In 2016, with her Association "Colpi
d'Arte", she won the "Prize of Arts and Culture" (Music section)
for the promotion of the development and diffusion of musical culture in all
its forms and expressions.
