Francesca Bacci was born in Siena. She began her piano studies in Florence under the guidance of R. Nardi and she continued her musical training in Rome with Master Fausto Di Cesare first and later with Master Renzo Silvestri, then President of the National Academy of Music of Santa Cecilia. She graduated in 1970.

In 1975 she met Master Sergio Fiorentino, world-famous artist, with whom she undertook a research work on various aspects of “piano interpretation”, activity lasted until 1998, the

year of the untimely death of the great piano Master of Naples. She attended the “piano master classes” at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Renzo Silvestri from 1968 to 1974, “Academy Murgantina” with Sergio Fiorentino (1980-1983-1984) and the Postgraduate Course of chamber music “Academy of Music Santa Cecilia” with Riccardo Brengola (1978-1979), always participating to the final concerts.

By the age of eighteen, as a soloist, she performed several concerts for important Italian and foreign Musical Associations, including the “Music Academy of St. Peter” in Majella (Naples), the “Teatro Rendano” in Cosenza, the “Bishop’s Palace” in Caserta, the “University for Foreigners” in Perugia, the “University of Italy”, the “Academy Chigiana” in Siena, the “National Academy of Santa Cecilia” in Rome, “the Grosser Saal” in Salzburg, wherever with unanimous enjoying success by critics and audiences. She collaborated with Pasquale Pellegrino in training music chamber; she played in a quartet and quintet at the 58th National Congress of the International Lions held in Montecatini in May 2010.

She was invited several times to take part in boards of examiners in national piano competitions, held seminars for several years on the great composers of the past (Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy and Skryabin) in academies of music, theatres and universities.

In November 1995, the Publishing House “Cinque Lune” published “Fragments of History of Music”, a book dedicated to the young people’s musical evolution from its origins to the 1900.

For the Record Company “Progetto Suono” she recorded piano music by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Debussy and Skryabin.

For some years she collaborated with the Department of Physics of the University of Siena with the research team, coordinated by Professor Mario Rigato, to the Project TAMMEF (Therapeutical Application of Musically Modulated Electromagnetic Fields). She also collaborated with the Director, Gianmichele Galassi, to the construction of a series of articles aimed at all those who wish to know something more about the extraordinary world of Music, “as a guide to listening” of great musicians of the past (Bach, Mozart, etc).

She began teaching in 1970 at the “F. Cilea” and since 1974 has been a full professor of piano at the “Academy of Music L. Refice” in Frosinone. She has taught at the National Academy of Music “Santa Cecilia” for 12 years, from 1980 to 1992 and from 2000 to 2002. She also collaborated with the International Academy of Music “Fondazione Arts Academy” of Rome.

She is the Artistic Director of the “International School of Music Sergio Fiorentino” in Rome.

SEMINARS -

- J.S. Bach - “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, the first and second volume Three Interactive Meetings L. Refice, 1997 -

- C. Debussy - “Preludes”, the first and second volume Two Interactive Meetings L. Refice, 1998 -

- D. Scarlatti, F. J. Haydn, M. Clementi, W.A. Mozart - “La forma sonata” One Interactive Meeting L. Refice, 1998 -

- F. Chopin - “Preludes” Two Interactive Meetings L. Refice, 1999

CONCERTS SEMINAR -

- J.S. Bach – for the Bachian year: “ Il rubato”, “Lo staccato”, “ Il legato” International Association of Caterinati Chapel of the Mantle - Siena, 1999 -

- C. Debussy - Light, Color, Sound, Magic “The Preludes” Teatro dei Rozzi - Siena, 2000

- J.S. Bach, D. Scarlatti, F. Schubert, F. Chopin, C. Debussy, A. Skryabin “The Breath of Music” - Preludes, Air, Sudden Opening cultural season, Church of Santa Maria in Portico Right Source - Siena, 2004

- J. S. Bach, F. Chopin, A. Skryabin - To understand and live the music “Preludes and Fugues” Baldassini Palace - Rome, 2004

- “ To breathe in Music from ’700 to ’900” International Academy of Music Academy Hall Arts Academy Foundation - Rome, 2008

DEGREES AND POSTGRADUATED COURSES

- Postgraduate Course Piano Master Renzo Silvestri - International Sommer - Akademie Salzburg (1968-1969-1971-1974)

- Postgraduate Course Piano Master Sergio Fiorentino - Academy of Music Murgantina Morcone (1980-1983-1984) -

Course of chamber music Master Riccardo Brengola – National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (1978-1979)