Chiara Minali
studied at the Dall’Abaco Conservatoire in Verona. In 2002 she graduated brilliantly in organ and organ composition under Alessio Corti. That same year she won first prize in the competition organized by the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona for newly graduated musicians. She then attended courses in harpsichord, obtaining a first-class diploma in 2005 under Sergio Vartolo. This was followed in 2010 by a Masters Degree in harpsichord at the Bonporti Conservatoire under A. Bugatti. She has also attended master classes in organ under Michael Radulescu and in harpsichord under Murray, Bellotti, Baumont, Astronio, Bonizzoni and Baroni. She played continuo in the early music course held at Brunico in 2005 at Villa Lagarina (Trento), and of the course of Baroque singing by Lia Serafini in the province of Verona in 2013-2014. With the Corelli Ensemble performed in Dortmund in 2006, in Berlin in 2009. In September 2009 she became third in the Terzo harpsichord competition, and the following year collaborated with the Compagnia Virtuosa vocal ensemble on a production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Pescara. She has also worked with the Monteverdi Conservatoire in Bolzano and the Dall’Abaco in Verona as harpsichord accompanist. From 1998 to 2007 she was titular organist at the church of San Giorgio in Braida (Verona), and from 2007 to 2013 at the Church of the Redentore in Verona. From 2005 to 2017 she taught organ at the Istituto Diocesano di Musica Sacra in the same city. Her career involves her in many concerts as a soloist and continuo player, collaborating with various instrumental and choral ensembles.