Born in 1997 in Milan, Italy.
Resides and works in Milan, Italy.
Biography:
Amalia Castoldi is an Italian painter specialized in oil on canvas, with a distinct focus on surrealistic horror themes. As both a pianist and painter, she doesn’t assign titles to her artworks, preferring to classify them with opus numbers like music pieces. This choice comes from her belief that while her paintings may depict figurative subjects, they transcend mere representation, serving instead as expressions of specific emotions conveyed through shapes and colors. Her secondary production, combined in Opus 6, combines painting with music, where the painting is an exact visual representation of a specific piano piece.
Born in Milan (Italy) in 1997, Amalia Castoldi resides and works in her birth city. She has participated in national and international exhibitions, showcasing her distinctive style and thematic approach.
Amalia Castoldi began playing the piano at the relatively late age of 17-18 years old. She has a Bachelor's degree in Piano Performance from Civica Scuola Claudio Abbado (2023; Milan, Italy) and a Master's degree at the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Como (2024, Como, Italy). She is currently studying at the Academy of Pinerolo under the guidance of the pianist Giovanni Doria Miglietta.
Amalia has cultivated a deep passion for 20th-century and contemporary music, which led her, starting from the 2023/24 academic year, to attend the contemporary piano course taught by Emanuele Arciuli (Accademia di Pinerolo). In 2023 and 2024, she participated in “Laboratorio '900”, an intensive week dedicated to contemporary music composed by composition students from the Conservatory of Como, with a final concert. Additionally, she enriched her training with a masterclass by Maestro Francesco Prode, further deepening her expertise in the contemporary repertoire.
She regularly attends piano masterclasses with esteemed international pianists like Dorian Britton, Roberto Prosseda, Carlo Balzaretti, Roberto Plano, Giovanni Bellucci, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Francesco Prode; masterclass in chamber music with Trio Kanon, Tommaso Lonquich, Marion Reinhard. Her talents have been recognized with prizes in various competitions including: Cortemilia International Piano competition 2018, 3° concorso nazionale Maurice Ravel, Platina International Grand Prize IV edition, VIII° International Competition “Città di Alessandria”, Premio Rospigliosi 2022, Concorso Nazionale Massa Carrara 2022.
She has been playing as soloist in classical music festivals and venues across Italy including Piano City Milano, Piano City Trieste, “Flying notes” organized by Fazioli, “Young Talents” at the Mutuo Soccorso Theatre in Imperia, “Summer Music Mestival” by Suoni D’Autore, “Casa Boschi di Stefano” in Milano, “Musica d’Estate” organized by Pinerolo Academy, recital at the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum in Trieste, recital at RAI sede regionale Friuli Venezia Giulia.
In 2022 Amalia recorded a commercial for DHL and FIAT playing the first tempo of Mozart’s piano sonata K331.
Education/training:
2019 – 2022: Bachelor degree in piano performance, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado, Milan, Italy
2022 – 2024: Master degree in piano performance, Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi, Como, Italy
Selected exhibitions:
2021 Radici (group exhibition), San Giuliano Milanese Cultural Centre, San Giuliano Milanese, Italy
2022 Croma (group exhibition), Centro Polivalente San Giovanni Incarico, Rome, Italy
2022 London Calling (group exhibition), Badiani Art Space, London, United Kingdom
2022 Arte e moda (group exhibition), Arcadia Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2023 “Resonant Paintings” solo performance for piano and paintings, Giovani Talenti Festival, Teatro del mutuo soccorso, Imperia, Italy
2024 O. S. D. I, Milan, Italy
2024 In Conversation With.. (group online exhibition), The Gallery by Mui, Washington DC, USA
2024 OPEN ABOUT IDENTITY (group exhibition), East Quai, Watchet, UK
2024 International Art and Design Exhibition, (group exhibition), V-Art Union, Belgium (online)
2024 Resonant paintings, solo performance for paintings piano and lights at RAI Sede Regionale Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trieste Italy (link)
Selected press & interviews:
March Edition, Creo Literary Journal by Creo Arts, 2024
May Edition (Issue:39), Art Magazineium, 2024
Issue Twenty - May, Grim & Gilded, 2024
Summer Issue 2024, Cool Beans Lit, 2024
Volum V Issue 3, Passengers Journal, 2024 (link)
Featured on website, LMNL SPCS, 2024 (link)
Interviewed on RDE Radio TV, October 2024 (link)