(December 12th 2016) Luisa Violo (Director of Italian Institute of Culture in Lisbon) and Graça Mendes Pinto (Director of Music National Museum in Lisbon), present on Tuesday, December 13th at 7 p.m., violin recitals of child prodigy Lucrezia Lavino Mercuri, accompanied by pianist Angela Lavino. The event – to be held at National Museum of Music – is organized by Lisbon IIC in collaboration with Arts Campus Award of Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza). Lucrezia Lavino Mercuri is 11 years old and when she was three was started by her mother to study piano and singing, and violin with Maestro Piomboni since she was six. Now she study with Maestro Raffaele Schiavone. She has already won numerous national and international competitions, including “Note sul mare” in 2013, “7 Note Romane” and “Clivis” in 2014. This year she won first prize at International Competition “J. Micka “and the prize Best study interpretation J. Micka (Prague-Czech Republic). She has played with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra “JuniOrchestra” and at the age of nine she has become part of Joung class (reserved to 14 to 21 years old students). On music day in June 2014, she was invited to play as a soloist at Ministry of Education to the presence of the Minister Stefania Giannini. She takes part to master classes of Maestro Fiorentini ter since 2015 (Rome)and of Tretyakov, Likhopoi and Vernikov
(“La Fenice” Venice), of Petrushevski (Conservatory “R.Wagner” Vienna), of Kopec (Mittenwald), and Baranov (Vilnius Conservatory). (PO / Red)