Giovanna Confalone

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Giovanna Confalone is a professional pianist, vocal coach, voice pedagogue, and collaborative pianist whose career spans more than three decades. A summa cum laude graduate of Boston University's College of Fine Arts, Giovanna earned her bachelor's degree in collaborative piano performance in 1998, with an emphasis on vocal duo coaching and art song repertoire. A Boston native, Giovanna returned to Massachusetts in 2010 to pursue her Master's of Music Education degree at her alma mater.

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Giovanna has been a faculty member of Cambridge Music and Riverside Theatre Works School of Performing Arts in Boston, where she was appointed principal Music Director and taught piano and voice until 2005. She joined the faculty at Steinert's Piano Academy in 2010 before dedicating herself exclusively to her private studio, which she has been cultivating since 1996.

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 Over the course of her career, Giovanna has accompanied recitals given by members of the Metropolitan Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, Boston Lyric Opera, and the North German Radio Chorus (NDR) in Hamburg. She was also a founding member and music director of Boston's swing vocal ensemble, The Sophisticated Ladies.

 

An avid would-be linguist, Giovanna has studied French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin, and Greek. Her knowledge of languages, combined with her extensive background in art song and vocal repertoire, has made her a sought-after vocal coach for professional opera singers.

 

Giovanna's current work includes the creation of the Mel Bonis Project, a music collaborative devoted to discovering, disseminating, promoting, and performing the music of 19th-century French women composers. The project brings together her longstanding interests in vocal repertoire, language, historical research, collaborative performance, and the recovery of music by composers whose work has too often been overlooked.