Stella Canocchi, born in 2000, has demonstrated a passion for music since childhood. She trained at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, where she earned her Master's Degree in Violin with top honors and distinction. Over the years, she has refined her skills under the guidance of renowned masters such as Ilya Grubert, Eliot Lawson, Marco Fiorini, Massimo Quarta, Adrian Pinzaru, Yair Kless, Felix Ayo, Lewis Kaplan (New York Juilliard School), and Marco Fiorentini. Since 2018, she has been attending advanced courses with Marco Fiorentini at the "AIM" Academy in Rome. Recently, she was admitted to the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, to pursue a master’s degree in violin under the tutelage of Aleksey Semenenko and Andrey Baranov.
She has an intense concert career both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles, performing in Italy and abroad. In 2021, she joined the chamber orchestra of the Gonfalone in Rome. She has performed numerous solo appearances with symphony orchestras.
Anastasia Galenina, Pianist
Anastasia Galenina began her piano studies at the age of five at the music school in Yekaterinburg, Russia, under the guidance of Larissa Kutsenko. She continued her musical education and, in 2015, commenced her studies at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, where she studied piano, song accompaniment, and chamber music with Oleg Malov and Sergei Urivaev. From 2020 to 2022, she further specialized in chamber music under the tutelage of Inga Dzektzer.
Anastasia has performed extensively in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, and Bosnia.
In 2024, she was selected for a masterclass with Maestro Alfred Brendel at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. Numerous other masterclasses, including those with Yura Margulis, Milana Chernyavska, Kathryn Stott, Michail Lidsky, Claus-Christian Schuster, Maxim Mogilevski, Wen-Sinn Yang, and Jürg Dähler, have enriched her musical journey.
Since October 2022, Anastasia has been studying Instrumental Duo at the Folkwang University of the Arts under Prof. Evgeni Sinaiski.
In addition to her concert performances, Anastasia is deeply dedicated to her work as a répétiteur. Since 2022, she has been a répétiteur at the Anton Rubinstein International Academy of Music in Düsseldorf-Berlin, where she collaborates with various string classes. In 2023, she served as a répétiteur for the violin masterclass at Villa Musica. In 2024, she was engaged as a répétiteur for the International Music Festival "Interharmony" in Italy.
Her competition achievements include the 2nd prize at the Stockholm Music Competition in 2017, the 1st prize at the International Maria Yudina Music Competition in 2019 with a piano quartet, and the 3rd prize at the All-Russian Music Competition the same year with a piano trio. In 2021, she won the 1st prize at the International Beethoven Competition in Ufa with her trio. That year, she also participated in an international project between South Korea and Russia, both as a soloist and as a member of a trio.
In April 2023, she won the Folkwang Prize in the "Music" category alongside a saxophonist. In October 2023, she performed a Rachmaninoff tribute concert at the Steinway House in Düsseldorf.
Since 2024, she has been a scholarship recipient of the Yehudi Menuhin LMN Rhein-Ruhr e.V. and, as of October 2024, serves as a collaborative pianist for Schumann Junior at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.