Valentina Saccone » Violin, viola and backing vocals
34 years old
Born in Caserta in 1990, she immediately begins studying music in Massa, playing piano and singing in a choir. She moves to Florence and, in 1997, joins Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, where she plays viola and violin. At the same time, she has been singing since 2001 with the teacher Nicoletta Maggino in the music school “Il Trillo”, Florence.
She partecipates to national and international contests, theatrical representations and symphonic concerts for Teatro Comunale, still in Florence, and in the course of her career she has played and singed in the most various groups, bands and orchestras, where she gets to know almost every musical genre from folk to rock, from ska to metal, from soundtracks to chamber music (she has collaborated – playing or singing – with bands like Reves de Miel, Birra dei Folli, AnDante Orchestra and Whisky Trail, IED Orchestra, Orchestra degli Amatori and also with the band of the Palio di Siena). She is now studying singing in Siena, she teaches violin, she studies viola in Fiesole, she plays viola and sings, still in Fiesole.
She has been playing violin with Aurea Sectio rock opera since 2011, and she brings chocolate and candies to rehearsals.
» Equipment:
Grandpa's violin
» She has been playing for:
28 years.
» Favourite artists:
Fabrizio De André
» Trivia:
She has an agenda where she notes down many things, such as: “Check agenda”. She prepares wonderful muffins.
» People say about her:
She forgot it.
» Plays in:
The Sword Of Ice And Fire (on tracks:
1,
2,
3,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14)