Roberta Castelli

Graduated in viola da gamba at the Conservatorio L. Cherubini in Florence, under the guidance of Paolo Biordi, and later specialised with Alberto Rasi at the Conservatorio E. F. Dall'Abaco in Verona. She has given concerts in various contexts in Italy and Europe with renaissance and baroque music groups of which she is a member and collaborator, performing in important Italian theatres such as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Goldoni in Florence, Teatro Poliziano in Montepulciano, and at important Florentine cultural venues such as the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Davanzati, Villa Bardini and Palazzo Medici Riccardi.

Parallel to her musical activity, she pursued her university studies and in 2013 she obtained a master's degree in Medieval Art History at the University of Florence and in 2016, again at the same university, she graduated from the School of Specialisation in Historical and Artistic Heritage. From 2016 to 2019 she was a collaborator of the CeDoMus project, Centro di Documentazione Musicale della Toscana, at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, where she worked on liturgical books and musical iconography. Since 2017, she has

been working as a cultural mediator at the Associazione Mus.e Firenze, at the Florentine civic museums, taking care of guided tours and didactics, and where she created the "Musei in Musica" event in collaboration with La Filharmonie - Orchestra Filarmonica di Firenze.

Since 2019, she has been dedicated to the organisation of musical events and artistic management at the Festival delle Viole di Gerfalco e Montieri, La Filharmonie - Orchestra Filarmonica di Firenze and the Accademia Strumentale Italiana.