Francesca Rambaldi began studying piano at a very young age with Marco Cavazza and graduated with highest honours from the “G.B. Martini” Conservatory in Bologna, where she studied piano with Valeria Cantoni and composition with Chiara Benati and Francesco La Licata. At the same time, she graduated with distinction in Cultural Semiotics from the University of Bologna. She subsequently continued her studies in chamber music and Lied interpretation at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig, where she obtained her Master’s degree with highest honours. She has participated in advanced masterclasses including the Europäische Akademie in Montepulciano, the Udo Reinemann Masterclass for Lied Duo in Brussels, and Urbino Musica Antica.
As a pianist, she has performed internationally, collaborating with established ensembles and appearing at festivals such as Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Internationale Messiaen Musiktage Görlitz, Kejia Share Music Base Jingdezhen, Mendelssohn Haus Leipzig, Spinnerei Leipzig, the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Paris, Salon du Livre de Martel, Journées Européennes du Patrimoine in Cholet, Conoscere la Musica Bologna, Circolo della Musica di Bologna, and Goethe-Zentrum Bologna. She has received awards including the Premio Montevenere and second prize at the Clara Schumann Wettbewerb in Leipzig.
Alongside her concert activity, she is actively engaged in music outreach through the festival she founded, “Musica in Bianco e Nero,” and through the Associazione Concordanze, an ensemble that brings music to places such as prisons, hospitals, and former forensic psychiatric facilities. Since 2016 she has been based in Berlin, where she teaches at the Klavierschule Berenstein - of which she has been director since 2022 - and at the Musikschule Bezirksamt Reinickendorf, in addition to working as a collaborative pianist. Since 2020 she has also been teaching German and Lied interpretation at the “Vecchi-Tonelli” Conservatory in Modena.