Carlotta Dalia
Carlotta Dalia was born in Grosseto, Italy, on 25 August 1999. She began classical guitar studies at the age of eight with Alessandro Nobili, later continuing with Alessandro Benedettelli, Fabio Montomoli and subsequently Aniello Desiderio.
She currently studies with Giampaolo Bandini.
At the age of twelve she performed her first solo recital and has since taken part in numerous festivals in Italy and abroad. She attends the Bachelor programme at the Academic Institute of Musical Studies “R. Franci” in Siena, Italy. She was admitted with honours at the age of fourteen and is now in her third year in the class of Marco Del Greco.
Since 2013 she regularly attends the Improvers Course with Carlo Marchione at the Municipal School of Arts in Rome. She has participated in masterclasses with Leo Brouwer, Aniello Desiderio, Marcin Dylla, Gianpaolo Bandini, Adriano Del Sal and Arturo Tallini.
From an early age she has taken part in national and international competitions, achieving numerous distinctions:
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2010 National Competition “G. Rospigliosi”, Lamporecchio, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2010 Guitar Competition “Etruscan Riviera”, Piombino, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2010 National Competition of Musical Performance, Grosseto, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2010 National Competition, City of Tarquinia, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2012 Guitar Competition “Etruscan Riviera”, Piombino, Italy
- 1st Prize – 2012 National Competition “G. Rospigliosi”, Lamporecchio, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2014 Guitar Competition “Etruscan Riviera”, Piombino, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2014 International Guitar Competition “Young Guitarists”, Mottola, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2014 International Guitar Competition “Pittaluga Junior”, Alessandria, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2014 International Guitar Competition, Acerra, Italy
- 2nd Prize – 2015 International Guitar Competition “Uppsala Guitar Competition”, Sweden
- 2nd Prize (first not awarded) – 2015 International Guitar Competition “Andres Segovia”, Pescara, Italy
- 2nd Prize – 2015 International Guitar Competition “Acerra Guitar Competition”, Naples, Italy
- 1st Prize – 2016 National Guitar Competition, Grosseto, Italy
- 1st Prize – 2016 Guitar Competition “G. Rospigliosi”, Lamporecchio, Italy
- 1st Prize – 2016 Guitar Competition “Etruscan Riviera”, Piombino, Italy
- Selected among 2351 musicians in a national radio competition, resulting in a CD production
- 3rd Prize – 2016 International Guitar Competition “Enrico Mercatali”, Gorizia, Italy
- 2nd Prize – 2016 (Primo Non Assegnato) International Guitar Competition “Niccolò Paganini”, Parma, Italy
- 2nd Prize – 2016 International Guitar Competition “Città di Mottola”, Mottola, Italy
- 3rd Prize – 2016 International Guitar Competition “Amarante”, Portugal
- 2nd Prize – 2016 International Guitar Competition “Città di Sanremo”, Sanremo, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2017 Guitar Competition “G. Rospigliosi”, Lamporecchio, Italy
- 1st Absolute Prize – 2017 Guitar Competition “Riviera Etrusca”, Piombino, Italy
- 1st Prize and Audience Award – 2017 International Guitar Competition “Uppsala Guitar Competition”, Sweden
- 3rd Prize – 2018 International Guitar Competition “Tokyo International Competition”, Japan
- 1st Prize, Special Prize for the best interpretation of a work by Leo Brouwer and Special Prize as best Italian competitor – 2019 International Paganini Guitar Festival & Competition
Instruments and Artistic Profile
She plays guitars by Andrea Tacchi.
Since 2016 Carlotta Dalia has been a D’Addario Artist.
