Floriana Franchina

Floriana Franchina started studying the piano and the flute when she was 9. She graduated in flute and piano at Bologna's Conservatoire with maximum grades and honors.
Her young age notwithstanding, she plays both instruments at professional level and she took part in about 100 national, European and international competitions, winning several first prizes, scholarships and concerts.
She has been the studied with Andrea Oliva at Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome and with Maestro Chiara Tonelli at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole. She has collaborated as a piccolo and second flute with the Orchestra Mozart conducted by Claudio Abbado, with  the Turin Philarmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Carlo Felice di Genova and Teatro Comunale of Bologna, as first flute. She participated to a Japan an China tour as part of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna and she toured with the Teatro Massimo of Palermo in Oman. She was also the winner of the scholarship donated by Claudio Abbado. She played a live piano and flute solist under the direction of Hans Shellemberger. Currently she is Principal flute of Fondation Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo. She was the winner of Virtuoso Grand Prize in London and Ibla Grand Prize as “musician outstanding”, organized by Ibla Foudation New York and with your single “ <a href="spotify:album:79RxHERUqHEuzlKfe7OQ4f" data-name="Miss Flofelì">Miss Flofelì</a> ” she was winner the Akademia Music Awards Los Angeles 2022.