She plays like an angel
Leo Brouwer
Born in Tuscany in 1999, guitarist Carlotta Dalia is attracting attention with her passionate and deep interpretations, carried by a unique and powerfull sound.
Since giving her first solo concert at the age of twelve, she has won over 40 national and international competitions, including first prizes in Uppsala, Hong Kong, Miami, and Madrid, as well as at the International Competition Niccolò Paganini in Parma.
She is now a regular guest on concert stages worldwide – tours have taken her to Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Russia, Ireland, Japan, and Switzerland, for example. Carlotta had the privilege to play in Rome’s Quirinal Palace at the invitation of Italian President Sergio Mattarella; the concert was broadcast live on Italian radio.
Carlotta Dalia plays the Herman Hauser I 1939 guitar owned by the greatest guitarist in history, Andrés Segovia.
Carlotta Dalia, represents with her art the excellence of a tradition – the Italian one – that flies very high, preparing to become a world protagonist of the art of guitar.
Angelo Gilardino
She released her first CD Gran Solo with works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Scarlatti, Bach, and Sor at the age of 16. 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, which was released together with works by other composers; in the same year, her recording of the complete guitar works by Ida Presti appeared.
For this recording she was awarded the Chitarra d’Oro Prize in Milan in October 2022.
Recent concerts also took Carlotta Dalia throughout Italy as well as to Barcelona, Beirut, Bogotà, the Groningen Guitar Festival, Riga, on tour to China as well as to Switzerland. This season she will perform in Uppsala, in Norway, in Brazil, at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam as well as throughout Italy.
Carlotta Dalia began playing the guitar at the age of eight and graduated with distinction in 2017 from the renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena, where she studied with Oscar Ghiglia. She completed postgraduate studies as a student of Laura Young at the Mozarteum Salzburg in 2022 and has been a D’Addario Artist since 2016.
Carlotta Dalia showed an extremely high level of technical accomplishment and musical understanding.
Her tone was clear and resonant, and she projected her musical ideas clearly to the audience.
We see a bright future for her on the concert stage.
Uppsala International Guitar Competition & Festival
Carlotta Dalia is currently playing the Hermann Hauser I ex-Andrés Segovia 1939 and a cedar guitar made by the century luthier Matthias Dammann in 2023.
The loan of the Hermann I Hauser guitar (muncher 1939) is made possible thanks to Adopt a Musician, a philanthropic initiative promoted and sponsored by Music Masterpieces SA, Lugano (CH).
In November 2024, she was appointed Professor at the Conservatorio ‘G. Donizzetti’ – Politecnico delle Arti in Bergamo.