
Marina Boselli
Born in Como in 1998, she began studying the euphonium at the age of 12. She obtained her Level I and II Academic Diploma in Euphonium at the Conservatorio ‘Guido Cantelli’ in Novara, in Maestro Corrado Colliard’s class, both with top marks and honours. She then attended the Biennium Academic Course in Ensemble Music at the Conservatorio ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ in Milan, in the class of Mª Monica Cattarossi, graduating with 110/110 cum laude and Honourable Mention. She specialised with internationally renowned teachers such as Steven Mead, Bastien Baumet, Corentin Morvan, Enzo Turriziani, Ermes Giussani, Mario Barsotti and many others, and took part in the International Women’s Brass Conference mentorship programme in 2021. She is the winner of numerous national and international competitions, including the Premio Nazionale delle Arti, the 1st Absolute Prize in the 8th edition of the ‘Premio del Conservatorio’ of the Milan Conservatory, the International Music Competition ‘Città di Stresa’, and the VTEC Solo Euphonium Competition of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association. Since 2018, he has been first solo euphonium of the Civica Filarmonica di Lugano, with which she has performed in Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Austria, and since 2023 she has been teaching Euphonium at the Conservatorio ‘Alfredo Casella’ in L’Aquila. She has held Euphonium masterclasses for the North Texas Low Brass Camp, the OctubaFest of the University of Rio (UFRN), in Italian conservatories and for several Italian music associations and band academies. Active in Italy and abroad as a soloist, she performs in leading seasons, including the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the Festival ArteScienza in Rome, the Festival AltriSuoni in Genoa, the Camera con Musica concerts of the Teatro Sociale in Como, the Concerts of the Società Umanitaria in Rome and Milan and the Rondò season of Divertimento Ensemble. Attentive to contemporary musical languages, she collaborates as a guest musician at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for the realisation of new repertoires for euphonium and electronics, also holding masterclasses on brass composition and extended techniques at conservatories and international composition campuses. Interested in the enhancement of historical heritage and informed praxis, she devotes herself to the study of the ophicleide and the serpentone, collaborating with orchestras that use original instruments, such as I Barocchisti (Baroque Orchestra of Italian Switzerland) and the Parisian orchestra Le Cercle de L’Harmonie. Alongside this, she is a chamber musician with the Canaja Brass Quintet, a brass ensemble founded in 2017, which has performed at numerous festivals and with which she recorded their debut album ‘UN’. She plays a limited edition Besson Sovereign ‘180th Anniversary’ euphonium.
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