Born in 1986, Camilla Finardi holds a degree in Musicology. She obtained both the former Italian university-level Diploma and the Second-Level Master’s Degree in Mandolin at the Conservatory of Milan, as well as a Second-Level Master’s Degree in Guitar at the Conservatory of Reggio Emilia. Since 2025, she has been a tenured Professor of Mandolin at the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory of Bari, having won the national professorship competition.

She has taught mandolin at the Music High Schools (Licei Musicali) of Lombardy, including those in Brescia, Bergamo, Breno and Milan; mandolin at the Conservatory of Milan; and guitar at the Conservatory of Reggio Emilia.

She has given masterclasses at the Conservatory of Persan (Paris), in Toscolano Maderno (Brescia) as part of the Bortolazzi Festival, in the Cévennes, and at the Academy of Music in Split (Croatia).

Among her numerous collaborations are the Fondazione Arena di Verona, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Regio di Parma, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, I Solisti Veneti conducted by Claudio Scimone, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Sociale di Mantova, the Athens Mandolinata “Nikolas Lavdas”, and the French associations “Canto Organo” and “Quinta d’Isula”.

She is actively involved in numerous chamber music projects featuring a wide variety of instruments. She regularly performs on historical instruments with gut strings, as well as on the liuto cantabile. She has won numerous prizes in international competitions and has recorded several albums for major record labels, including Tactus, Nuova Era, Movimento Classical, Da Vinci Classics and Fabula Classica.

She graduated under the guidance of her father C.Lutzemberger in the Conservatory “F.A.Bonporti” in Trento. She also mastered his studies with R.Chiesa and O.Ghiglia in the “Accademia Chigiana” of Siena and with A.Gilardino, A.Diaz and L.Brouwer. She studied composition with M°R.Dionisi.

Winner of national and international awards, she has performed concerts in Italy, Europe and in the USA. She has been a guitar teacher until her retirement in 2021 at the Conservatory “F.A.Bonporti” in Trento. She has held masterclasses in Italian and European Conservatories.

She is often in the jury of important guitar competitions: Gorizia, Mondovì, Rospigliosi Competition, Paganini Competition in Parma and since 2018 she has been artistic director of a guitar Competition in Treviso.

She recorded the CDs “Note di una vita”, “La chitarra e l’opera”, “Poesia lunare”. As a composer she published “Sei corde nel bosco”, “Passeggiata musicale” for four guitars and “Dialogando” for violin and guitar (Sinfonica edizioni).

Completed the lower and medium level school of music (Josip Hatze School of Music– the course in Music Theory) in Split.

Graduated the studies of the mandolin at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in 2003, and Music culture at the Academy of Arts in Split in 2004.

Now is an assistant professor at the Arts Academy of the University of Split, before that she taught mandolin and chamber music at the music school of Josip Hatze in Split, Makarska and Dubrovnik. Participating in preparing the mandolin curriculum for basic and medium level schools of music, and the elaboration of the undergraduate university study of Mandolin.

Is a recipient of the recognition of the County of Split-Dalmatia for the exceptional success of students at the state competition in 2019. and 2021.

She trained at seminars for early music in Urbino (Italy), Trossingen (Germany). Participated in the work of EGMYO (European guitar and mandolin youth orchestra) in 1999 in Logrono (Spain), 2000 in Ferrara (Italy), and in 2012 as a tutor in Split.

Playing in various ensembles (Da Capo Mandolin Quartet, Split Mandolin Quartet, duo with guitar, duo with cembalo, duo with harp and trio with harp and flute) and wins awards in the country and abroad.

As a soloist performed with the early music ensemble Renesans of Belgrade, Serbia, the Dubrovnik Symphonic Orchestra, the Mostar Symphonic Orchestra and the Kolin Symphonic Orchestra (Czech Republic, Šibenik String Orchestra, UMAS String orchestra and mandolin orchestra Sanctus Domnio.

Cooperating with the Croatian National Theatre in Split, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, and the Croatian Radio and Television Orchestra (Split Summer Festival, Porin Discography Awards, Cesarica Festival).

Concertmaster of the Sanctus Domnio Mandolin Orchestra of Split.

Is a member of the expert jury at the festival of klapa with mandolins and guitars in Makarska, as well as the regional and state competition HDGPP – and in the soloist category – mandolin.

Giacomo Giabelli graduated from the Liceo Musicale “Secco Suardo” and subsequently from the Triennio and the Biennio Accademico in Mandolin at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan under the guidance of Maestro Ugo Orlandi, cum laude and special mention. He has participated in numerous masterclasses in Italy and Europe. He has also devoted himself to the study of the liuto cantabile and early repertoire on copies of historical instruments.

Active as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, he collaborates with various Lombard plucked-string orchestras and with ensembles such as the Duo Mazzola, the Quartetto Bergamasco, Ensemble Quadro Raro, the Windkraft Ensemble, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Philharmonic Orchestra “Arturo Toscanini” of Parma, and the Umbrian Philharmonic Orchestra “Vittorio Calamani”. He is also one of the founders of the ensemble Arte del Pizzico.

He is the winner of the 14th edition of the Premio Nazionale delle Arti organized by the MIUR in the “Guitar, Harp and Mandolin” category. Since 2023 he has been a mandolin teacher at the Scuola Musicale dei Quattro Vicariati “Operaprima”.

Is a renowned mandolin soloist and professor. After graduating from the Padua Conservatory under Ugo Orlandi, he permormed with prestigious institutions such as the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and RAI, touring across Europe, Asia, and South Asia. Formerly a professor at the L’Aquila Conservatory, he courrently holds the chair of Mandolin at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples.