Giulia Trabacchi was a Platinum Prize Winner (B1 - Age 18-21 Category) at the 2025 World Classical Music Awards
Biography
Giulia Trabacchi was born in Pavia in 2005. At the age of 10 years old she moved to Piacenza, where she began studying the harp with Nicoletta Alberti, whom she then followed to the conservatory Monteverdi of Bolzano to finish the Bachelor program in 2025. Passionate since a young age of Opera and chamber music, Giulia has played in different ensembles, such as the Innsbrucker Kammerorchester InnStrumenti and the Ensemble Télémaque - Compagnie musicale contemporaine, performing in Italy and abroad. She already played with youth orchestras, Mahler Academy Orchestra e Landesjugendorchester Südtirol, as well as professional orchestras, Orchestra Farnesiana and Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana. As a soloist she received the second prize in the competition The international classical music competition of the Vienna Classical Music Academy and the first prize in the international competitions The Universal Stars Music and The World Melody Music Competition.
Can you introduce yourself and share how you got into music?
My name is Giulia Trabacchi. I’m 20 years old and I come from Piacenza, Italy. I started playing the harp at the local conservatory when I was 10 years old, but I already loved listening to Opera. When I was a kid, I once stumbled upon Il Barbiere di Siviglia on my father’s computer, and since then I have been dragging my family to the theatre.
Could you tell us more about your award-winning work? For instance, how did you prepare it, bring it to life, or any interesting stories behind the scenes?
To bring the Fantaisie on themes from E. Onegin to life, I started by listening carefully to the themes of the Opera and understanding their role in the whole plot. I then noticed how almost every motif that harpist Walther-Küne chose for the Fantaisie told us Tatiana’s perspective of the story. Not only her point of view and sensitivity, already so well depicted by Tchaikovsky in the Opera, but also this writing that exploits the potential of the harp, were the key for me to portray this impossible love between Tatiana and Onegin.
Would you like to share your experience participating in our competition and anyone you'd like to thank (such as mentors, supporters or other team members)?
I have to thank my teacher, Nicoletta Alberti, for leading me on this journey so far, shaping the musician I am today, and always listening to and supporting my musical ideas. I would also like to thank my parents, who always supported me and made me feel loved, a condition I believe is necessary to make music, as playing is to give oneself to the audience.
About the recording process, always so difficult for me because of the lack of an audience, I would like to thank my friend who took the time to listen to my playing behind the camera.
