Silvana Di Lotti

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Silvana Di Lotti (born 29 November 1942) is an Italian pianist, teacher and composer. She was born in Agliè, near Turin, and studied piano in Turin with Amalia Pierangeli Mussato and composition with Giorgio Ferrari. She also studied in Salzburg and Siena, including a summer program with Kurt Leimer and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Franco Evangelisti, Luis de Pablo and Roberto Goitre. After finishing her studies, she taught harmony and counterpoint at the Turin Conservatory and later at the A. Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria. She won the Alfano Prize at the Turin Conservatory and the Ancona Prize for a woodwind piece (oboe and piano) in 1980, with performances in Pavia, Leningrad and Riga. In 1985 she received the Lobende Anerkennung at an international composition competition in Mannheim. Her works have been performed at major European festivals.