Sabrina Simoni (born 16 October 1969) has been interested in

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since her

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Biography

She graduated from Music Conservatory in

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

. She joined the Institute of Antoniano di Bologna around 1991. At first she was working with the teenager/studentchoir Le Verdi Note. When

Mariele Ventre Maria Rachele “Mariele” Ventre (16 July 1939 – 16 December 1995) was an Italian musician and singer, the founder and director of Italian children's choir Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano. Biography Mariele Ventre was born in Bologna, Emil ...

, the conductor of the better known Antoniano children's choir

Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano The Piccolo Coro "Mariele Ventre" dell'Antoniano, until 1995 simply Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano ( en, "Little Choir of Antoniano"), is an Italian children's choir from Bologna. History The choir was created by Mariele Ventre in 1963 at the Anto ...

had to have an urgent operation exactly during the preparations of the 1992 children's songfestival

Zecchino d'Oro Zecchino d'Oro (; meaning "Golden Sequin") is an annual international children's song competition established in 1959 by Niny Comolli. It is broadcast by Rai 1. The first two contests were held in Milan. In 1961, the contest was taken up by th ...

, she asked Sabrina Simoni and her friend

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(ex-Piccolo Coro singer) to take charge of the children's choir and the preparations for the festival. Afterwards, Mariele Ventre has been teaching and preparing Sabrina Simoni to one day take over the direction of the Piccolo Coro. After Mariele Ventre's death in 1995, Sabrina became the new conductor of the

. Her job as conductor and music teacher to very young children has led Sabrina Simoni to publish two children's books: '' Favole in Canto'' (2003) and '' La tastiera incantata'' (2003). Both books have the goal of developing a young child's musical ear in a playful manner.

Gallery

Image:Sabrina Simoni - Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano "Mariele Ventre".jpg, Sabrina with ''Mariele Ventre Choir'' in

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, 2014

References

External links

Sabrina Simoni info at Official Homepage of Antoniano
1969 births Musicians from Bologna Living people 20th-century Italian women singers {{Italy-music-bio-stub