Giulia Ballarè

Saturday, March 14, 2026
7:30 pm
Sundin Music Hall
1531 Hewitt Avenue, St Paul

Giulia Ballaré (1987, Novara) is now considered one of her generation's most promising soloists.

She is regularly invited to play all over the world in prestigious venues.

She has performed in Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Florida, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Ireland, England, Austria, Portugal, Montenegro, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, and Italy.

She is guitar professor at “Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve” (Switzerland), she taught at Alessandria Conservatory (Italy); In 2013 she released her first album with the label dotGuitar titled "Lirically Spain”, in 2019 “Untuned Guitar” with the Spanish label JSM records, in 2023 always with the label JSM records, “Lo que vendrá” in duo with the French guitarist Pauline Gauthey, in 2025 with the Japanese label Da Vinci Classics “Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete solo guitar works”.

She started playing guitar at nine years old and graduated in 2012 from the conservatory in Novara with M° Guido Fichtner. She attended masterclasses with the most important figures of the classical guitar world, like Oscar Ghiglia, David Russell, Pavel Steidl, Paolo Pegoraro, Marcin Dylla, Judicael Perroy, Aniello Desiderio, and Adriano Del Sal.

When she was 20 years old, after Erasmus’s experience in Spain, she devote everything to the guitar; in 6 years (2013/2018) she has won more than 30 prizes in international competitions among them, first prize: Andrès Segovia (Linares, 2018), Ciudad de Coria (Spain, 2017), Forum Gitarre Wien (Austria, 2016), Mottola (Italy, 2013); second prize: J. Tomàs-Petrer - 1st not awarded - (Spain, 2018), Enrico Mercatali (Gorizia, 2017/8), Thessaloniki Guitar Competition (Grece, 2017) Mertz Competition, (Bratislava, 2016), Montenegro International Competition, (Podgorica, 2016); third prize: M. Pittaluga International Competition (Alessandria, 2017), A. Frauchi International Competition (Moscow, 2017), J. Tomàs-Petrer (Spain, 2017), Sevilla (Spain, 2017), Emilio Pujol Concorso Internazionale (Italy, 2017).

She is a Savarez and Tonebase Artist and plays a Roberto De Miranda guitar.