Sabrina De Carlo is a pianist and educator from Campania whose artistic path weaves together the tradition of classical music with contemporary and interdisciplinary languages. Her work ranges from solo performance to chamber music, including repertoire on historical keyboards and collaborations with living composers, in a continuous dialogue between past and present.
Throughout her concert career, she has performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the Cappella Paolina at the Quirinale, alongside more intimate spaces dedicated to the exploration of new repertoire and thematic programs. She has a particular affinity for contemporary music and has presented premieres by Laurie Sanmartin, Yoko Nakatani, and Sam Nichols.
Within DuoKeira, together with Michela Chiara Borghese for over twenty years, she is devoted to the repertoire for piano four hands and two pianos. The duo develops projects that combine music, dance, theatre, and visual arts, including the VTRP2 festival in Rome, and collaborates with artists from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Their performances have been broadcast by RAI Radio3 and Radio Vaticana, reaching a wide and diverse audience. Alongside her performance activity, Sabrina carries forward a solid artistic vision, designing and realizing initiatives that unite music, research, and interdisciplinarity.
With DuoKeira she has released three CDs; in another chamber formation she recorded for the Stradivarius label an album dedicated to women composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a project that highlights lesser-known female voices and their contribution to the modern musical heritage.
She teaches principal piano at the Conservatorio “Venezze” in Rovigo, where she integrates the Dalcroze method into her pedagogy and contributes to the activities of the International Office, supporting the development of European and international mobility and collaboration projects. Her educational and professional experience in the United States (at the Longy School of Music, Wellesley College, and Brandeis University) has shaped a pedagogical vision attentive to the value of cultural exchange, which she now brings to her students through open and thoughtful learning pathways.
Sabrina earned her diploma in piano at the Conservatorio “Morlacchi” in Perugia, in Chamber Music at the Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” in Rome, and in Harpsichord at the Conservatorio “Casella” in L’Aquila. She refined her studies at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena under Michele Campanella, receiving the Diploma of Honour. In the United States she completed a Master’s in Piano Performance and an Artist Diploma thanks to scholarships recognizing her talent and dedication.
She is currently co-director, together with Francesco Giannelli, of Quadracoro, a choral ensemble that represents for her a place of human and musical exchange. She is also the artistic director of “Andante con Fuoco”, a project that promotes music as a shared, engaging, and accessible experience within the community where she lives. In her artistic vision, music seeks and creates spaces where beauty and reflection can be explored and lived together.