Martina Frezzotti, Pianist

Classical Pianist

Martina
Frezzotti

‘ Frezzotti is a pleasure to hear ‘

‘ Frezzotti is
a pleasure
to hear ‘
Jeremy Nicholas
— GRAMOPHONE

About

Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti is internationally recognized for her distinguished pedagogical activity and performing solo career, which spans over two decades across Europe, Asia, and the United States. A former student of Lazar Berman and Elisso Virsaladze, she studied at the Accademia Pianistica di Imola and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she completed her PhD in 2012. This background has enabled her to carry on the legacy of the Russian piano school in Italy.
Over the past year, Martina Frezzotti has carried out an intense and wide-ranging artistic activity, both as a concert pianist and educator. Her international season included major solo recitals, chamber music performances, masterclasses, and radio broadcasts across Europe and the United States.
Her 2024/2025 remarkably dense calendar opened with a highly acclaimed all-Chopin recital at Carnegie Hall, New York, where she received a standing ovation for her interpretations of the 4 Ballades, 12 Études op.25, and Scherzo No.2. Just days later, she performed a duo performance of Mahler’s 1st Symphony with Jed Distler at Klavierhaus, New York. She also performed in London at the prestigious Reform Club and Trinity Laban Conservatoire; her recital at the Reform Club garnered an outstanging review from renowned critic Christopher Axworthy. In a few weeks, Frezzotti performed for the historic Società dei Concerti di Trieste, performing a solo recital centered on the Second Viennese School and local composers.
In March, she was invited to hold a piano masterclass at the prestigious Liszt Academy in Budapest, receiving glowing recognition for her teaching and future invitations.
In 2024, Frezzotti gave many acclaimed solo recitals and lecture-recitals featuring Amy Beach, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Clara Schumann’s music in many venues in Italy, including Teatro Comunale in Ferrara and Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna. Moreover, her performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto in Bulgaria earned her a standing ovation and led to an invitation to give a masterclass and a recital at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She held piano masterclasses at Lecce Yamaha Academy, Cividale International Mastercourses, Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek (Croatia), Ankara Hacettepe State University and also performed at Mondomusica Cremona in a Rossini four-hands concert.
Her growing international recognition is also reflected in her discography with Piano Classics – Brilliant Classics. Her first two albums are dedicated to female composers Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (2022) and Amy Beach (2023), and a new releases are forthcoming. These recordings have received critical acclaim from leading publications such as Gramophone UK, BBC Music Magazine, International Piano, Pianist Magazine, Piano News Deutschland, Rondo Magazine, American Record Guide, Fanfare, Music Web Intl, Classics Today and many others.
The CDs have been featured by major international media: RAI Radio 3 (Primo Movimento and Radio 3 Suite), BBC Radio 3, SWR 2 and RBB Kultur (Germany), Ö1 ORF (Austria), SRF 2 (Switzerland), WWFM New York and Wisconsin Public Radio (USA), and others.
She was also interviewed by Musica magazine and several national Italian radio programs. Her albums have twice been awarded “CD of the Month” and 5-star distinctions by Musica and others. Especially her Amy Beach album garnered exceptional praise from renowned international critics such as Jed Distler, Jeremy Nicholas, Peter Quantrill, Patrick Rucker and David Hurwitz.
New discographic project for 2025/2026 will include works for piano and orchestra by Clara Schumann (Piano Classics), piano works by Anton Arensky (Piano Classics) and works for piano and orchestra by Italian XX Century composer Bruno Bettinelli (Naxos).
Throughout her career Frezzotti has performed in UK, Ukraine, Japan, USA, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Russia. She has appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Osaka’s Kawai Concert Hall, the Philharmonic Hall of Kyiv, Warsaw Philharmonic, many Italian Institutes of Culture all over Europe, the Memorial House of Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow, the Slovene National Theater in Maribor under the patronage of the Italian Presidency. In Italy, she has played for institutions such as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Società dei Concerti di Milano, Società dei Concerti di Trieste, Ferrara Musica, Palermo Classica, Amici della Musica di Udine, Donatori di Musica and many others.
During her training years Martina Frezzotti took part in several International Masterclasses and Summer Festivals, including Berlin Piano Festival (with Prof. Boris Berman), Mozarteum Summer Academy (with Prof. Dmitri Bashkirov), Como Lake Academy (with Prof. William Grant Naborè), also with other famous teachers Vladimir Krainev, Vera Gornostaeva, Natalya Trull, Leonid Margarius, Boris Petrushansky. She received various important scholarships throughout her career.
She has taken part in National and International Competitions, obtained diplomas of Finalist and Semifinalist in many major international competitions: Golden Medal at the 2nd Vienna Internation Music Competition (2020), Semifinalist Diploma at Prokofiev International Competition (St. Petersburg 2013), Semifinalist Diploma at Horowitz International Piano Competition (Kiev, 2012), 1st Prize at Brest International Competition (2013).
She has been one of the 4 Italian competitors at XVII Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw (2015).
Since 2020, Martina Frezzotti has been continuously engaged in teaching roles at various Italian conservatories. She currently holds a professorship at the “G. Tartini” Conservatory in Trieste, and has previously taught at the “N. Rota” Conservatory in Monopoli, “G. Martucci” Conservatory in Salerno, “G. da Venosa” Conservatory in Potenza, “G. B. Pergolesi” Conservatory in Fermo.
Each year she receives Erasmus+ mobility funding to carry out teaching activities across Europe, confirming her role as a highly sought-after educator in the international academic landscape.
“Martina is a musician who has definitely chosen the right direction”
— Lazar Berman, pianist

“Martina possesses a truly stable piano technique and artistic fire”
— Natalya Trull, pianist

“I always admired Martina’s research for the highest level that would allow her to strengthen and establish herself among the most renowned pianists of her age in Italy”
— Paolo Fazioli, Fazioli Pianoforti
‘ An hour’s worth of Amy Beach at her best, performed with masterful authority ‘

— JED DISTLER

2025 JANUARY
ALL-CHOPIN RECITAL
Weill Recital Hall
Carnegie Hall, NY



my next CDs for PIANO CLASSICS:
CLARA SCHUMANN and ANTON ARENSKY

News

News / AGENDA / PODCASTS

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2025, June 1
Warsaw, UMFC
Chopin University
Piano Masterclass


2025, May 31
Warsaw, Poland
Sala im. H. Melcera
Recital


2025, January 27
New York, Carnegie Hall
All-Chopin recital
4 Ballades, 12 Etudes op.25


2025, February 20
Trieste
Società dei Concerti
Quadri in Musica


2025, January 31
New York, Klavierhaus
M.Frezzotti-J.Distler piano duo
Mahler 1st Symphony


2025, January 22
London, Reform Club
Lunchtime Concert
All-Chopin Recital


2025, January 23
London, Trinity
Laban Conservatory
Recital for students


2025, March 25-29
Budapest
Liszt Academy
Piano Masterclass


2025, March 21
Udine
Amici della Musica
MAD Musica Arte Donna


2025, August
Go!2025 Gorizia Nova Gorica
European Capital of Culture
Recital


RAI Radio 3 Suite

January 2024
with Giacomo Fronzi
Interview


SWR 2
November 2023
with Hannah Schmidt
Radio Broadcast


WWFM New York
May 2024
Jed Distler “Grandi
Pianisti Italiani II”


Ö1 – ORF
April 2024
with Irene Suchy
Radio Broadcast


2024, April-May

Osijek, Croatia
Piano Masterclass
Academy of Arts&Culture


2024, May 30

Pazardzhik, Bulgaria
G.Palikarov conductor
Tchaikovsky 1st


2024, March 10

Cormons, Italy
Female Composers
EnoArmonie


2024, March

Musica magazine
Interview
with Alberto Cima


RBB Kultur

January 2023
with Cornelia De Reese
Radio Broadcast


Radio Città Aperta

January 2024
with Giulia Vazzoler
Interview


2024, November 3

Recital Ravenna, Italy
Teatro Alighieri
Ridotto


2024, October 13

Recital Ferrara, Italy
Teatro Comunale
Ridotto


2024, August 27

Recital compositrici
Grado, Italy
Concerti in Basilica


2024, September 27

G.Rossini 4 hands
Cremona, Italy
Mondomusica


2024 July 17-20

Masterclass
Lecce, Italy
Ex Convitto Palmieri


2024, July 29-August 4

Cividale, Italy
37^ Intl. Music
Mastercourses


RAI Radio 3
Primo Movimento,
Valentina Lo Surdo
January 2024


SRF 2 Suisse

December 2023
with S. Thibault
Radio Broadcast


2023, October 29
Lecture-Recital
Ferrara, Italy
Teatro Comunale


2023, October 16-19

Piano Masterclass
Ankara, Turkey
Hacettepe University


2023, January 31

Recital
Trieste, Italy
Sala Tartini


2023, April 20

Recital vl/pf
Trieste, Italy
Sala Tartini
‘ In this excellent account of well-chosen works Martina Frezzotti is a superb advocate ‘
— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

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Discography

AMY BEACH

AMY
BEACH

Piano Music (2023)
PCL10277
“Out of the Depths” in B Minor, Op. 130 — Variations on Balkan Themes in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 60 — Sketches, Op. 15: III. “Dreaming” — Serenade “Ständchen” after Richard Strauss — Prelude and Fugue, Op. 81 — “Canoeing”, Op. 119 No. 3 — “Honeysuckle” Op. 97 No. 5 — “A Hermit Thrush at Eve” Nocturne, Op. 107 — 3 Piano Pieces, Op. 128

FANNY MENDELSSOHN

Piano Music (2022)
PCL10238
Das Jahr, H.385 13 Charakterstücke: January “Ein Traum”; February – Scherzo; March; April – Capriccioso; May “Frühlingslied”; June “Serenade”; July “Serenade”; August; September “Am Flusse”; October; November; December; Postlude – Choral — Nocturne in G Minor, H.337 — Nocturne Napolitano in B Minor — Introduction and Capriccio in B Minor, H.349

 

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MASTERCLASS

UMFC
Uniwersytet Muzyczny
Fryderyka Chopina

Fryderyk Chopin
University Of Music,
Warsaw, Poland

2025 June 1
Piano Masterclass
Erasmus+ Programme
Corsi internazionali di interpretazione musicale, Foligno
2025 July 20-26
Piano Masterclass
Associazione Umbria Classica
Liszt Academy,
Budapest, Hungary

2025 March 25-27
Piano Masterclass
Erasmus+ Programme
International Music Mastercourses, Cividale
2024 July 27-August 4
Piano Masterclass
Associazione S.Gaggia
Academy of Culture and Arts, Osijek, Croatia
2024 April 29-May 3
Piano Masterclass
Erasmus+ Programme
Accademia di Musica di Lecce
2024 July 17-20
Piano Masterclass
Yamaha Music School
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
2023 October 16-19
Piano Masterclass
Erasmus+ Programme
‘ Frezzotti strikes just the right stylistic balance. Her impeccable technique in service of a burgeoning imagination is admirable ‘
— INTERNATIONAL PIANO
★★★★★
5 stars on Musica Magazine
Zecchini Editore

Amy Beach Piano Music

★★★★★
5 stars on Musica Magazine
Zecchini Editore

Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Music

REVIEWS

Gramophone
February 2024 “Critics Choice”
Review by Jeremy Nicholas
Amy Beach Piano Music
International Piano
Jan/Feb 2024
Review by Patrick Rucker
Amy Beach Piano Music

Christopher Axworthy
music commentary

January 2025
Review of live performance
London, Reform Club
All-Chopin Recital
“Martina is fearless in the face of technical challenges because they simply do not exist for her as she sees and feels only music. Martina was like a Lion on the Keys and the final three studies were breathtaking for their sumptuous full sound allied to a dynamic fearless drive. The ending of the Scherzo I have only heard that sound allied to such excitement from Rubinstein. A range of emotions and a kaleidoscope of colour were played with ravishing beauty but it was the animal intensity that she gave to the last few pages that was truly breathtaking in its audacity and brilliance.”
Pianist
Feb/Mar 2024
Review by Peter Quantrill
Amy Beach Piano Music
BBC Music Magazine
February 2024
Review by Jessica Duchen
Amy Beach Piano Music
Musica, Zecchini editore
Mar 2024, 5 stars CD of the month
Review and interview by Alberto Cima
Amy Beach Piano Music
Piano News DE
March 2024
Review by Isabelle Herzfeld
Amy Beach Piano Music
Fanfares
Mar/Apr 2024
Review by C.Clarke/H.Dent/K.Meltzer
Amy Beach Piano Music
ARD American Record Guide
March 2024
Review by S.Wright
Amy Beach Piano Music
Classics Today
January 2024
Review by Jed Distler
Amy Beach Piano Music
SWR Radio
December 2023
Review by Hannah Schmidt
Amy Beach Piano Music
Musica (Zecchini ed.)
October 2022 “CDs of the Month”
Review by Alberto Cima
Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Music
BBC Music Magazine
August 2022 “Selection of the Month”
Review by Rebecca Francks
Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Music
Classics Today
February 2023
Review by David Hurwitz
Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Music
Pizzicato.lu
June 2022
Review by Remy Franck
Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Music
‘ Absolutely lovely disc. Delicious captivating piano music. Lovely performance. ‘
— DAVID HURWITZ

Contact

based in Udine, Italy

proposals/informal:
frzztt[at]gmail.com

institutional/teaching:
martina.frezzotti[at]conts.it
Conservatorio G. Tartini, Trieste


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