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Daniela Bracchi

Concert pianist and Professor of piano Daniela Bracchi has been forged as a concert pianist from the age of eight under the tutelage of Dr. Ana Maria Trenchi Bottazzi. During the first few months of her progress she had a one hour lesson a week. Because of her tremendous talent for the piano and music in general her tutoring grew into a demanding several hours of lessons a week.

In the span of over ten years of this association, Miss Bracchi, who will receive her DMA degree from the Manhattan School of Music this coming spring, 2008 as a performer, has since become the most important student in the teaching career of Dr. Bottazzi. She has passed on to Daniela all of the teaching and insights she received from Germaine Pinault.

Over the years they worked very diligently together in technique and how to work on the solutions of different problems in piano literature. Miss Bracchi is now passing on her expertise to her students with the same musical integrity.

It is with great pride and fulfillment that Dr. Bottazzi and Professor Robert Wichlan have asked pianist and teacher, Daniela Bracchi, to become part of “Practice With The Masters”, specializing for the time being, in contemporary music, which she performs in an extremely professional, creative and exciting manner.

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Daniela Bracchi began playing for her own amusement at the age of five. At the age of eight, she began to study seriously with world famous pianist Dr. Ana Maria Trenchi de Bottazzi at the Pinault School of Music in New York .

Ms. Bracchi has a long list of accomplishments to her credit which include:

First place winner in the Italian American Competition (1992)
First place winner in the Queens Symphony Orchestra's "Young Soloist Competition"(1992)
Six time winner of the Leschetizky Association's "Young Gifted Peoples Competition"
First place winner in The Piano Teachers Congress of New York 's "Young Pianists Competition,"
2 time first place winner of the "APPTA International Competition,"
2 time first place winner of the "Bartok-Kabalevsky International Competition" in Radford Virginia .

In addition, at the "Bartok-Kabalevsky Competition, she received the Marion Gray Award for best performance; First place in the Long Island Philharmonic Young Artists Competition and a performance with the Long Island Philharmonic, and first place in the junior division of the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition.

Among countless recitals around the New York area including performances at Weill Recital Hall, Cami Hall, and Caramoor, Ms. Bracchi has also given solo recitals at SUNY Stony Brook, The Peabody Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music and four solo recitals to capacity audiences at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, one of which includes her debut recital at age 10. In July of 2007, Ms. Bracchi gave her European debut at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

Ms. Bracchi has performed in master classes with Leon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sandor, Eteri Andjaparidze, Menahem Pressler, and Santiago Rodriguez.

In 2000 Ms. Bracchi became part of the studio of Boris Slutsky at the Peabody Conservatory at the Johns Hopkins University , obtaining a Bachelor’s degree while performing around the Baltimore-Washington area. Daniela attended The New Millennium Piano Festival in Spain where she had the opportunity to perform in concert halls in Asturias along with the honor to work closely with Julian Martin, Blanca Uribe, Yveda Kaplinsky, Marc Durand, and Dominique Weber. Ms. Bracchi has obtained a Masters degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music under the direction of the renowned pedagogue Dr. Solomon Mikowsky. She is currently continuing her studies as a doctoral candidate with Dr. Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music.

Ms. Bracchi is currently on the piano faculty at the Pinault School of Music. She has also taught classes and coached chamber music in the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college program. She remains an active performer of classical piano repertoire, as well as chamber music. Ms. Bracchi is also a supporter of contemporary music, performing and premiering works by up-and-coming composers.

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