Sabrina De Carlo

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Sabrina De Carlo is a pianist and teacher of piano whose repertory is distinguished for its versatility, and whose approach to music allows her to range across the whole gamma of musical forms and expressive modes, from those of the classical tradition to the most innovatory and hybrid. 

 In recent years Sabrina has contributed in important ways to the internationalization of Avellino’s "D. Cimarosa" Conservatory, helping to create opportunities for cultural exchange and for collaboration with academic institutions from across the world, thus making it possible for students to diversify and extend their artistic scope in international contexts. She now teaches at the "Venezze" Conservatory of Rovigo, where she continues to share her passion for music with new generations of musicians, seeking always to stimulate curiosity and creativity.   

As founder member, with Michela Chiara Borghese, of DuoKeira, Sabrina has dedicated more than fifteen years to repertories for four hands piano and for two pianos. The duo also promotes interdisciplinary projects bringing together music, dance, theatre and the visual arts, such as the VTRP2 festival, which they organised and on which they collaborated with artists from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and from the Rome Opera.   

In the course of her career as a concert pianist, Sabrina has performed in such prestigious contexts as the Carnegie Hall New York and the Cappella Paolina pf the Quirinal Palace in Rome, but also in more intimate spaces where she has explored new repertories and experimented with thematic programmes.  She has a special predilection for the works of contemporary composers, and has given world premieres of works by Laurie Sanmartin, Yoko Nakatani and Sam Nichols, expressions of her interest in the dialogue between past and present.

Sabrina has recorded three CDs with DuoKeira and in a different chamber music ensemble is in the course of publishing, under the Aulicus label, a new album dedicated to the music of three women composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This last project aims to bring recognition to little-known women’s voices and revalue their contribution to the modern musical heritage.

In her teaching, Sabrina draws on the Dalcroze method, blending corporeal awareness with musical practice. She has taught in the United States at Wellesley College and at Brandeis University, working with young musicians in courses, master classes and interdisciplinary projects aimed at communicating the pleasure of discovery and artistic growth.  

Sabrina De Carlo took her diplomas in piano at the Morlacchi Conservatory in Perugia, in chamber music at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, and in harpsichord at the Casella Conservatorio in L'Aquila. She completed her studies under the guidance of Michele Campanella at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, where she was awarded honours. In the United States she was awarded a Master’s degree in Piano Performance and an Artist’s Diploma, qualifications for which she was able to study thanks to grants made in appreciation of her talent and commitment.

Sabrina is co-director of the Quadracoro choral ensemble, a meeting place for human and musical exchange. She is also artistic director of ‘Andante con fuoco’, an association which brings to the area of Rome in which she lives music as a shared, involving experience accessible to all. For Sabrina music is an art which must search out and create spaces where it can become a means of exploring and living together moments of beauty and of reflection.