Chiarastella Onorati

Chiarastella Onorati gained her piano diploma with full marks at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. She began her music career as a pianist and she has often performed, both as soloist and in chamber groups, specialising in the Italian 20th century repertoire. In 1993 Chiarastella received her diploma as a singer having studied with Corinna Vozza e Margherita Rinaldi. A dark-timbre mezzo-soprano, she possesses a range from G2 to C5 allowing her to perform a repertoire from the seventeenth century to the present, specialising in dramatic roles. Her substantial training as instrumentalist enables her to realise the complex vocal qualities of modern and contemporary music (Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Glass, Razzi, Filotei, Rihm, Petrassi, Nono, Manzoni, Vescovo).  In 1994 she won the “Giovani p