Biography

Tiziana Moneta began studying piano at age six with Isabella Scotti. At sixteen, she graduated with top marks cum laude from the "G. Donizetti" Conservatory of Bergamo, where she studied under Carlo Pestalozza — himself a pupil, alongside Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, of the renowned Milanese piano school of G. Anfossi. She also studied composition with Vittorio Fellegara.

Her training continued through specialization courses with Nikita Magaloff at the Geneva Conservatory and with the celebrated Hungarian teacher Ilonka Deckers, and at the Academy of Vienna with Jörg Demus, who wrote of her: "...an exceptional musician and pianist of exceptional importance, endowed with a unique feeling for Romantic music (Schumann!). As a pianist, she will leave an extraordinary impression."

At twenty-two, she launched her first American tour, performing in Boston and New York and giving interviews and radio recordings, some of them live. It was the beginning of an international career that would carry her across Italy and Europe — as a soloist and with orchestra — to Spain, Portugal, France, England, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, as well as Russia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, and Romania. Invited by the most prestigious concert institutions, she has won great acclaim wherever she has performed, from audiences and critics alike.

When she recorded the music of Scriabin, Marina Scriabin — the composer's daughter and herself a musicologist — wrote to her: "...The reviews from the different countries where you have played are a fitting tribute to your pianistic qualities: your technique, your sensitivity so finely attuned to that of the composer, your touch... but I want to add another quality, a very rare one — that you put your talents entirely at the service of the works you play, allowing your listeners to discover them, rather than using them to show yourself off, as even excellent performers sometimes do..."

Chamber music has been an equally vital part of her career, bringing her together with the Eder Quartet of Budapest, the Nuova Cameristica, and the American violist James Creitz — collaborations that have also yielded a number of highly praised recordings.

In 1986, she began a lasting partnership with pianist Gabriele Rota, her own former student, who also studied piano with Aldo Ciccolini and composition with Vittorio Fellegara. Together they took up the repertoire for piano four hands and two pianos, and the duo now looks back on a forty-year international career, with an extensive discography that spans the complete works of Dvořák, Debussy, and Ravel, along with numerous world premieres, including works of contemporary music

A teacher at the "G. Donizetti" Conservatory of Bergamo, Tiziana Moneta has been appointed Ambassador of the "Ars Magistri" Study Centre, dedicated to preserving and spreading the teachings of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Journalist Carlo Enrico Bazzani featured her in The Protagonists, a book published by Comedit celebrating Italian women who have distinguished themselves professionally across the arts. For many years, she also maintained a close friendship with Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, who gave her all of her books, each inscribed with a personal dedication.

After three editions of an earlier competition, the initiative was reborn as the Vittorio Fellegara Prize, presented in collaboration with the Nomus association. It went in 2019 to musicologist Martin Nicastro and in 2022 to the Achrome Ensemble, performers of a CD devoted entirely to Vittorio Fellegara's chamber music, with an awards ceremony and concert at the Museo del Novecento in Milan. In its third edition, in 2024, the prize was awarded to guitarist Silvia Cignoli, honored in a concert at the State Archives of Milan.