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Floraleda Sacchi ( June 14 , 1978 ) is an Italian Harpist , Composer and Musicologist born in Como . BIOGRAPHY She studied music in Italy , USA and Canada , with Alice Giles , Judy Loman , Alice Chalifoux . She won prizes, in Italy and abroad, at 16 music competitions. She performed extensively in Europe, North and South America, Asia and represented Italian harpists at 4th, 5th and 6th ''European Harp Symposium''. She plays pedal , David Clarck Little , Dimitri Nicolau , Paolo Castaldi , Gianluca Cangemi , Jean Chatillon , Louis Berenguer . She wrote musicological articles related to harp and Harpist s. Her main book, entitled "" Elias Parish Alvars , Life, Music, Documents''" published in 1999 , received the Harpa Award (Prague 1999) in recognition. She edited 18th and 19th century harp music, bringing back to public several forgotten composers and refreshing harp repertoire. She is the author of shows uniting music and acting. Among them: "''Mistery Tales''" (for actor, harp and string quartet, dedicated to the relation among Fantasy and horror literature and music) and "''Travel to the Moon''" (for actor, harp and planetarium - presented regularly at Milan 's Planetarium ) - freely inspired from ''"Cosmicomiche"'' by Italo Calvino . From June 2007 she plays live in Ottavia Piccolo 's monologue "Donna non rieducabile". The show, based on a text by Stefano Massini , remember journalist Anna Politkovskaja . Since 2006 she is the artistic director of LakeComo Festival. =Prizes and Distinctions=
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