"Elia e Betsabea Faccini are young concert artists with admirable technical and musical skills. In their hands the piano is colored with a thousand sounds and nuances and it expresses sweetness, fury, joy, abandonment.”

(Giuseppina La Face, Alma Mater Professor – Università di Bologna)

 

Founded in Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) in 2015, the Faccini Piano Duo is formed by Elia and Betsabea Faccini, Italian-British pianists and composers.

 

The Faccini Piano Duo is one of the most appreciated chamber music ensembles of the new Italian generation. The ensemble began their studies at Conservatoire Luigi Boccherini in Lucca under the guidance of Riccardo Peruzzi.

Then furthering their studies at the Avos-Academy in Rome, at the International Divertimento Ensemble Academy in Milan with Maria Grazia Bellocchio and at the Conservatoire Arrigo Boito in Parma where they obtained a post-graduate degree in Chamber Music under the guidance of Enrico Bronzi, Alberto Miodini, Ivan Rabaglia (Trio di Parma) and Pierpaolo Maurizzi. In addition, further enhancing their specialization by attending Masterclasses with musicians of the highest level such as Beatrice Rana, Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov, Sivan Silver and Gil Gabur.

 

In June 2022 they won the competition “Amur for New Talents” and have been prize winners in almost thirty national and international music competitions, both in Italy and abroad (Poland, Andorra, Spain, Hungary).

 

They have performed in numerous concerts for the most important musical associations eg. Fondazione La Societa’ dei concerti di Milano, Società dei Concerti di Parma, IUCConcerti alla Sapienza, Teatro Regio di Parma, Unione Musicale di Torino, Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica, Fondazione Musica Insieme Bologna, Società dei Concerti di Trieste, Festival delle Nazioni, Società del Quartetto di Milano.

 

In October 2022, they made their debut at Regio Theatre in Parma (Italy) in “Giovanna: La Pulzella, la fanciulla, l’allodola” alongside the Italian actress Lella Costa. For this occasion, the Duo performed their own transcriptions for piano duo from the opera “Giovanna d’Arco” by G. Verdi (the production was commissioned by Festival Verdi, Parma).

 

They have been guests at Radio Musica con le Ali and Radio Vaticana, for which they also made a recording.

 

In June 2024 their debut album, in collaboration with the Japanese Label Da Vinci Classics, has been released.