About the Artist

Born in Tuscany in 1999, guitarist Carlotta Dalia is attracting attention with her passionate and deep interpretations, carried by a round and powerful tone. Since 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, Madrid, and the Niccolò Paganini International Competition in Parma.

She is now a regular guest on concert stages worldwide—tours have taken her across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She performs frequently as a duo with violinist Giuseppe Gibboni, winner of the 2021 Paganini Violin Competition in Genoa. Recent highlights include appearances with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in Uppsala, recitals in Norway, Brazil, Athens, the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, and the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Recent engagements included performances in Florence, Paris, Lima, Santiago de Chile, at the Segovia Foundation in Linares, and as a duo with Maximilian Hornung in Biella and Friedrichshafen.

Her first CD Gran Solo, with works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Scarlatti, Bach, and Sor, was released at age 16. Further recordings include music by Weiss, Gilardino, and the complete guitar works of Ida Presti, for which she received the Chitarre d’oro prize in Milan in 2022. A new solo album “Segovia” was released in 2025 on Berlin Classics.

She is supported by Classically Connected, Inc. (formerly Si-Yo Music Foundation) in New York and the Adopt a Musician Foundation in Lugano – the latter also kindly lent her the 1939 Hermann Hauser I guitar built for Andrès Segovia. Carlotta Dalia also plays the Matthias Dammann 2023 guitar.

She studied with Oscar Ghiglia at Accademia Chigiana, and with Laura Young at the Mozarteum. Since 2024, she is a lecturer at the “Gaetano Donizetti” – Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo.