She took her first steps in the world of music at a very young age, studying piano and ballet for several years in her home town of Nereto (TE). She completed her musical studies at the ‘G. Rossini’ Conservatory in Pesaro, graduating in Piano with Maestro Patrizio Cerrone, Composition with Maestro Mauro Ferrante and Orchestral Conducting with Maestro Manlio Benzi; in 2007 she obtained a Second Level Degree with a grade of 110 cum laude in Orchestral Conducting, also in Pesaro, with a thesis and concert on Gustav Mahler's ’Des Knaben Wunderhorn’ by Gustav Mahler (performed with the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Alessandro Pagliaga and Bettina Block). He also obtained a three-year diploma in advanced orchestral conducting, again with full marks and honours, under Maestro Donato Renzetti at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese. In 2006 she attended the summer course in Orchestral Conducting with Maestro Gianandrea Noseda during the Settimane Musicali di Stresa and in 2008 she was the only Italian conductor to be admitted to the Conducting Masterclass with Maestro Bernard Haitink in Lucerne (CH).
Winner of the 2006 ‘Festival Mozart Giovani’ in Milan, she has conducted various orchestras over the years, such as the Tuscan Regional Orchestra, the Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra, the ‘G. Rossini’, the Milan Symphony Orchestra, the Marche Philharmonic Orchestra, the Peruvian Symphony Orchestra and many others, performing not only in Italy but also in Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Romania, France and Germany. She has collaborated and conducted several international artists including Juan Diego Florez, Roberto Frontali, Riccardo Zanellato, Fabio Armiliato, Nicola Alaimo, Maurizio Leoni, Anna Malavasi, Carmela Remigio, Caterina Dellaere, Stefano Bollani, Paolo Fresu, Nello Salza, Luca Lionello, Edoardo Siravo. For several years she was Assistant Director to Maestro Manlio Benzi at the ‘Notti Malatestiane’ Festival in Rimini and Principal Director of the American opera faculty ‘Italian Operatic Experience’. She was music consultant for the TV drama ‘Ris5-Delitti Imperfetti’ produced by Taodue for Mediaset in the episode on Verdi's Rigoletto. She was second conductor in the production of Rigoletto in Lima (2008) alongside Maestro Michele Mariotti for the debut of Juan Diego Florez in the role of the Duke of Mantua with Roberto Frontali in the title role and Alessandra Marianelli as Gilda. She also collaborated with the Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari as Preparatory Conductor during the management of the Special Commissioner Dr. Carlo Fuortes (former CEO of RAI) supporting the Principal Director Daniele Rustioni and for 8 years he taught Orchestral Conducting in the three-year PhD ‘Music Art–Conducting’ at the ‘G.Spontini’ Music Institute in Ascoli Piceno in a collaboration between the Marche Region and the University of South Korea. Also as a conducting teacher, he held the Orchestral Training Course for the Estate Musicale Frentana in Lanciano (CH) in 2023 with two final concerts dedicated to Maestro Remo Vinciguerra.
For 20 years he has been the Principal Conductor of the ‘Concerto Sinfonico’ of the Estate Neretese, an event sponsored by the Tercas Foundation. Over the years he has developed a vast repertoire including 70 different symphonic, operatic and contemporary composers, participating in various national and international festivals (Festival Interludio in Rocca Costanza (PU), Festival in Mercatello sul Metauro, Notti Malatestiane in Rimini, Concert Season ‘Primo Riccitelli’ (Te), D'Annunzio Festival (Abruzzo Region), PanOpera Festival of Umbria (Pg), Miralteatro Festival (PU), Estate Musicale Frentana (Ch), Caudium Festival of Naples, Musical Marathon of Strasbourg (F).
For several years Luisella Chiarini has been the custodian of the entire musical production of Maestro Alfredo Impullitti, a young composer from Abruzzo who died prematurely. She organises and directs concerts of his music, especially with orchestras. In 2018 we remember the public performance of MISSA, Composition for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra, Impullitti's most important work, with soloists such as Paolo Fresu, Achille Succi, Tino Tracanna and Pierre Favre (who had recorded Missa in 2000), together with over 120 artists including choir and orchestra. The event, co-produced by the Tercas Foundation, the Abruzzo Region and the ‘Primo Riccitelli’ Concert Society of Teramo, was broadcast on the Rai Radio 3 Suite programme with an introduction by Pino Saulo and was a great success.
In 2021 he was commissioned by the Ministry for University and Research to conduct a lyrical-symphonic concert with the National Symphony Orchestra of Italian Conservatories at the prestigious international showcase of the Dubai Expo, to represent the Italian sector of Higher Artistic and Musical Education (AFAM). The concert, which was held under the dome of the Al Wasl Plaza in Dubai with a live video broadcast from the Expo site, was a huge success with the public and critics, including the ‘VII Parliamentary Commission - Culture Section’ of the Chamber of Deputies, which paid homage to Maestro Chiarini in the United Arab Emirates. A year after that marvellous experience, again on behalf of the Ministry, she returned to conduct the same orchestra at the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome for the Final of the National Arts Award. The concert was broadcast and recorded by the Ministry for University and Research.
For the last two years she has been involved in the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ project in support of Iranian women, which includes concerts with various female soloists (harp, violin, piano, accordion, flute, cello, etc.), including Leila Shirvani, the Italian-Iranian cellist who is promoting the project. In 2023 she recorded the album ‘The Strings of my Heart’ by Paolo Di Sabatino (one of the most important jazz pianists on the Italian scene) with the ‘Benedetto Marcello’ Chamber Orchestra and her Jazz Trio, with Paolo himself on the piano, Glauco Di Sabatino on drums and Luca Bulgarelli on double bass. The album was released on CD and LP by Halidon Music and was presented in concert at various venues including the ‘Cotton Jazz Club’ in Ascoli Piceno where, for the first time in the club's forty-year history, a conductor took to the stage!
He recently conducted the FORM (Fondazione Orchestra Regionale Marche) in Osimo for the prize of the international competition ‘Nuova Coppa Pianisti’, performing Beethoven's Piano Concertos No. 4 and No. 5 and Haydn's No. 12. On 5 January 2025 he conducted the Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese in L'Aquila in a Jubilee opera concert with international artists such as Carmela Remigio, Fabio Armiliato and Riccardo Zanellato.
For several years Luisella Chiarini has been following the opera and symphony productions of Maestro Daniele Gatti in Italy and abroad (Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala and Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Mahler Chamber Orchestra).
Since 2024 Luisella Chiarini has been President of the Jury for the ‘Soundtracks’ section at the Civitavecchia Film Festival (International Tour Film Festival).
She has taught Full score reading at the ‘G. da Venosa’ Conservatory in Potenza, the ‘G.B. Pergolesi’ Conservatory in Fermo and the ‘Nino Rota’ Conservatory in Monopoli, where she is now tenured Professor.
last update 21 mar 2025
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