Carlotta Dalia represents the excellence of the Italian tradition – which is of the highest level – and is on her way to becoming a world leader in the art of the guitar.
Maestro Angelo Gilardino, Suonare News
Born in Tuscany in 1999, guitarist Carlotta Dalia is attracting attention with her passionate and profound interpretations, transmitted by a rounded and powerful timbre. Since her first solo concert at the age of twelve, she has won over forty national and international competitions, including first prizes in Uppsala, Hong Kong, Miami and Madrid, as well as at the Niccolò Paganini International Competition in Parma.
Today she is a regular guest on stages around the world: her tours have taken her to several countries, including Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Russia, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, South America, China and Switzerland. She currently performs in a duo with violinist Giuseppe Gibboni, winner of the Paganini Violin Competition in Genoa in 2021 – the two played, among other places, at the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome at the invitation of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella; the concert was broadcast live on Italian radio. The most recent concerts took Carlotta Dalia all over Italy and to Uppsala with the Guitar Concerto No. 1 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco together with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra; she also performed in Norway, Brazil, Athens and at the Nikolaisaal Postdam and gave a recital and orchestral concerts at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. In the next season she will perform in Florence, Lima, Santiago de Chile, at the Segovia Foundation in Linares and in a duo with Maximilian Hornung in Friedrichshafen.
At 16 she released her first CD Gran Solo with works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Scarlatti, Bach and Sor. A second recording, including compositions by Bach’s contemporary Silvius Leopold Weiss, followed in 2018. In 2020 she recorded a sonatina by Angelo Gilardino dedicated to her under the title Angelus, published together with works by other composers; in the same year her recording of the complete guitar works of Ida Presti appeared. For this recording she was awarded the Chitarre d’oro prize in Milan in October 2022. A solo album with works by Andrés Segovia and a new composition by Enrico Melozzi will be released in spring 2025 on the Berlin Classics label, which recently signed the young guitarist.
Carlotta Dalia began playing the guitar at the age of eight and graduated with honors in 2017 from the renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena, where she studied with Oscar Ghiglia. She completed her postgraduate studies as a student of Laura Young at the Mozarteum Salzburg in 2022 and has been a D’Addario artist since 2016. She is supported by Classically Connected, Inc. (formerly Si-Yo Music Foundation) in New York and by the Adopt a Musician Foundation in Lugano – the latter also kindly loaned her the 1939 Hermann Hauser I guitar, built for Andrès Segovia. Carlotta Dalia also plays the 2023 Matthias Dammann guitar. Since 2024 she has been a professor at the “Gaetano Donizetti” – Politecnico delle Arti in Bergamo.
