Simona was born in Bern and grew up in Naples as a Swiss and Italian national.
She studied classical singing in Rome with Amedea Nogas-Perrino, Margaret Baker-Genovesi and Doris Andrews. From 2001 to 2003 she attended all mastercourses at the Ateneo Internazionale della Lirica (Sulmona) with Margaret Baker-Genovesi, Dario Lucantoni (Conductor) and Italo Nunziata (Stage director). She attended Sergio Segalini's mastercourse at the Accademia di Arte Lirica (Osimo, 2004) and masterclasses with Gabriella Tucci and Mirella Freni. She also had the privilege of perfecting her art with Luciana Serra.
She performed the roles of Suzuki (Madama Butterfly, Rome, Palazzo Barberini, May 2000), L'Ostessa (first performance of Il Miracolo del Corporale by Alberico Vitalini Savona, Conductor Piero Gallo, November 2001), Rosalia (West Side Story, Tivoli, Festival Euro-Mediterraneo, Conductor Boris Brott, July 2002), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice by C. W. Gluck, Mannheim, Musikhochschule, October 2003), La Madre Superiora (Mese Mariano by U. Giordano, Osimo, Teatro La Nuova Fenice, May 2004), Fenena (Nabucco, Sulmona, Teatro Maria Caniglia, March 2005), Marta and Pantalis (Mefistofele, Chieti, Teatro Marrucino, April 2005), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana, Conductor H. Yoshida, Rome, May 2005), Dorabella (Così fan Tutte, Rome, Teatro Don Bosco, April 2006), L'Opinion Publique (Orphée aux Enfers, Biel - Solothurn, Switzerland, January - May 2007).
Her concert career began in 1996 and includes oratorio, Liederabend and opera recital. She was awarded the 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the "C. A. Seghizzi" International Chamber Music Competition in Gorizia with pianist Leonardo Angelini in July 2002.
Staged concerts of Banchieri: Il Festino del Giovedì Grasso (Chieti, Teatro Marrucino, February 2003), Mozart-Requiem tour in Sardinia (Conductor Massimo Pradella, July 2004), Porgy and Bess and West Side Story - Concerts in Abruzzo with the Quartetto Accademia (December 2004 - June 2006), Recital at the Festival Pianistico di Spoleto with pianist Filippo Belloni (May 2006), Mozart's C-minor Mass (Conductor Claudio Micheli, Rome, June 2006), Two Recitals with pianist Hansjürg Kuhn (Bern, June and October 2007). She sang Bacalov's Misa Tango under Ernst Schelle in Porto and Famalicão (May 2008), Haydn's Theresia-Mass and Vivaldi's Magnificat in Bern and Solothurn (May 2008).
In 2003 she took up teaching singing, which she continues today with great dedication. She collaborates as a singing teacher with the Canto Classico Choir in Bern.Myspace Layouts
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