Miriam
She was born in Florence from a family of musicians; among them, her grandfather's cousin Icilio Sadun is worth mentioning.
She started studying violin at the age of seven with Vincenzo Papini, and then attended the Luigi Cherubini conservatory in Florence, graduating very young, with best marks, under the lead of Luigi Gamberini and, as for chamber music, Franco Rossi. She studied with Sandor Végh, Sandro Materassi and, in Geneve, she improved her technique with Corrado Romano.
Winner of the first prize in Esecuzione Musicale for Duo (piano and violin) in Pescara, of the F. Cilea prize for Duo, of the contest for second violins concertino at the Teatro Regio in Parma, and ranked for file violin in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. She gives regular concerts in Italy and abroad (Europe, USA), as a soloist and first violin, playing in orchestras and in various chamber music ensembles. In 2002 and 2005 she took remarkable tours in USA with the Cherubini Ensemble quintet (of which she is a founder), from the Luigi Cherubini conservatory, giving concerts in Lexington and Cincinnati. She was Concertino of the first violins in the Orchestra Regionale Toscana from 1980 (foundation year) to 1983, taking part to the soloists' concerts of the O.R.T. in remarkable chamber music performances in Italy and abroad. She was Concertino of I Solisti Fiorentini and started a cooperation with the Nuovo Ensemble Maderna as first violin/ violino solo, specializing in contemporary music. She cooperates as soloist, concertino and first soloist violin with the Luigi Cherubini conservatory orchestra, and with the Ensemble Kammerkonzert: some considerable performances of hers were those as first soloist violin in the Sylvia Symplex opera, by F. Pennisi, in Pinocchio by M. Tutino in cooperation with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Mythos Mutans directed in Florence by M° P. Bellugi. In 2007-2008 she has been appointed as Artistic Director of Opera da Camera di Firenze.
Since 1998 she plays in duo with guitarist Silvano Mazzoni developing an intense concert activity, playing an original repertoire spanning from eighteenth century to contemporary music. She takes part of the Ensemble Giordano Noferini having regular chamber concerts (Dvorak, Schumann). She cooperates in trio with flutist Alessio Bacci and harpist Lisetta Rossi on a repertoire devoted to classic and contemporary opera transcriptions. From 2009, joining, the ensemble Nuova Cappella di Palazzo directed by Jonathan Brandani, she focuses on the executions on original instruments (baroque violin).
She taught at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and, since 1976, she is professor in Principal Violin, precociously starting her teaching activity at Matera’s conservatory, then in Piacenza and, since 1979, in Florence, at the Cherubini Conservatory, where she is currently holding high-level formation for the 2-yrs and 3-yrs courses. Her pupils are always esteemed as eccellent musicians in master classes, acknowledged by important artists - such as R. Ricci, P. Vernikov, C. Romano, D. Bogdanovic - and professionally hi-ranked: orchestras, chamber music, auditions, contests, teaching and music festivals in Italy and abroad. In 1988 she received a "honoris causa" diploma in the Città di Chieti contest, since some of her pupils had won three prizes in three different categories. In 2002 and 2005 she was entrusted masterclasses at Lexington University (Kentucky, USA) and Cincinnati University (Ohio, USA).
Having always been interested in violin-related relaxation tecnichques, she masters Kundalini Yoga applied to violin teaching in order to enhance the psycho-physical balance in her students; has recently achieved the 3rd REIKI level.
She made both radio and television appearances and concerts, for RAI (public broadcaster) as well as private stations. She cooperates with EMA Records, which digitally released some of her performances.
