Pina Carmirelli (23 January 1914 in

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– 27 February 1993 in

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) was an Italian violinist. She started studying music and playing in public when she was very young. She was a pupil of Michelangelo Abbado, and graduated from the

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(1930) and

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(1935). She won the '' Premio Stradivari'' in 1937 and the ''

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'' in 1940. She married the cellist Arturo Bonucci. She starred in a long concert career, both as soloist and in chamber groups, some of which she co-founded herself: * The

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(1950) with Arrigo Pelliccia and Guido Mozzato (violins), Luigi Sagrati and

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(viola) and her husband Arturo Bonucci (first cello) and

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(second cello). * The Carmirelli Quartet (1954) with Arturo Bonucci (cello),

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(second violin) and Luigi Sagrati (viola). (1954) * The Quintetto Fauré (1979) with

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(piano),

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(second violin), Massimo Paris (viola) and Francesco Strano (cello). She was a tenured professor of advanced studies at the

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from 1941. She performed in recitals with

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and Sergio Lorenzi and as a soloist under the direction of

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. She was also first violin of ''

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''. As a musicologist she edited the critical edition of the work of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carmirelli, Pina Italian violinists Academic staff of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia 1993 deaths 1914 births 20th-century violinists 20th-century Italian musicians Italian women classical violinists 20th-century Italian women musicians Milan Conservatory alumni