Annabella Palleri, from Pescara - Italy, brilliantly obtained a degree in harp in 1991, led by Maria Di Giulio. In later years she studied with Liliana Frasnedi, harpist of the Teatro Comunale in
Bologna and attended master classes with harpists of French and American school. In the same years, she carried on, with the classical harp, an intense activity at national level, with chamber
groups (Officina musicale italiana at "Cantiere internazionale d'arte" in Montepulciano, Solisti dauni) and orchestras (under the baton of Donato Renzetti and Daniel Harding, among others)
and got the eligibility for the Italian youth orchestra.
As a soloist made musical entertainment experience at resorts in Sardinia, in the Terme euganee area and as a street artist in the squares of Rome and Venice, with public success everywhere. In
'95 she participated as a student at the International Festival of the pop and jazz Harp in Tucson, at the harp department at the University of Arizona, led by Carrol McLaughlin and since then
she opened herself to the development of her instrument within crossover music.
In '98 she attended for one year the course of diatonic and chromatic harp, at the "Conservatoire Royal de Musique" in Brussels.
In 2002 she worked together with luthier Massimiliano Mirra, to the realization of "Palette", little in-line chromatic harp, well suited to improvisation and she has deepened its study.
Immediately after that, she collaborated to establish the first chair of Harp in a middle school in Lombardy and taught for nine years at Brescia "Mompiani", school with 75% of foreign students.
She participated in various concerts of the Brescia town band.
She qualified to teach music education in middle and high schools, at the Conservatory of Brescia in 2005, deepening the Orff method and discovered a passion for body percussion, participating to
seminars with C.Paduano, K.Terry, D.Goodkin and Charles Raszl of Barbatuques.
She approached the Celtic harp style, attending workshops with Myrdhin and Catriona McKay and participated in 2006 to the summer courses of the Irish Harp Center with Janet Harbison, Ireland,
specializing in harp orchestras repertoire.
In 2009 Annabella obtained her degree in Harp teaching, with honors, under the guidance of Emanuela Degli Esposti. She moved with husband and toddler in Bologna and later in Padua, where she
teaches music in secondary schools.
As a socio-educational worker, she related with people of all ages and in over 20 years and she's been a teacher of music theory, of harp at the musical high school and the Conservatory and music
education, in Puglia, Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto.
Among her past projects, the "Ensemble Bilitis", all-female group that combined music and acting, with dozens of concerts all over Italy, first performances of works written specifically for the
group (Cesare Picco "Al crepuscolo del nuovo millennio") and a recording for the label Bongiovanni.
Her collaborations with singing are assiduous. Since 2019 the one, as an author too, with the artist Alberto Nemo, that gave birth to "Olim", a duo recording in digital format, distributed by the
independent label Back Creation, in which the sound of the celtic harp is totally processed.
Moreover, she's been playing for three years with the harp ensemble "WhatsHarp" directed by Tiziana Tornari, harp teacher at the Conservatory of Padua and she founded the "Duo de la Corte", a
vocal and multi-instrumental ensemble with a wide repertoire of entertainment music, active in Venice (Hilton hotel) and surroundings and the Celtic music band "Aradya", where she's also
been engaged as a keyboard player and arranger. In 2022 she started experimenting on electric and midi harp sounds.
She's later deposited "La canzone del silenzio" on Soundreef, her first song as an author of words and music, whose lyrics have been selected for the semi-finals of the European Tour Music Fest
2023.
Furthermore she published the book "Io speriamo che me la...canto!", edited by Youcanprint, an anthology of blunders about music, collected at school.
She's recently completed the on line course of Modern harmony at Boston Berklee college of music and registered the patent for an ergonomic wrist rest for Harp.