20/02/2024
was born in Florence, Italy, and studied musicology and the recorder both in Italy and Germany. Valentina took a great interest in classical Turkish and Arabic music, studying their respective aesthethics and theories. She learned to play the Ney with Ross Daly, Ömer Erdogdular, and Kudsi Ergüner.
She plays both the Turkish and the Arabic Ney, performs on numerous stages (among others the National Theater Thuriniga, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, or Elbphilharmonie Hamburg) both solo and together with ensembles, such as the Husam Al Ali Ensemble, Almar'a: the Arab and Mediterranean Women Orchestra, Concerto Foscari (international Ensemble for early music), Ensemble Pera, Farmagia, Syriab Ensemble, Dj Sara Dziri, or Babylon Orchestra.
She´s the first European woman performing the „Istanbul Sinfonie“ by , for example in Staatstheater Braunschweig, in Scharoun Theater Wolfsburg, with the Bergischen Symphonikern in Solingen/Remscheid and the Niederrheinischen Symphonikern in Mönchengladbach.
Recentely she's been developing her personal music performance, called "Wind & Drums“. In this program, the diverse possibilities of the flutes, the neys and other wind instruments (such as duduk, hulusi, whistles, bagpipes and many others) are unfolded in connection with loops, effect pedals and percussion.
Her debut Solo album "Eremos", released in December 2021, embodies her various musical and cultural backgrounds and experiences, including early western and modal music, experimentation and tradition, medieval music, radical improvisation, maqamat and deep investigation of their respective languages.
