{{Short description|Italian musician}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = Mara Galassi | image = Galassi.jpg | image_upright = | caption = | birth_date = 1956 | birth_place = Milan, Italy | genre = Early music | occupation = Harpist, musicologist | instrument = Early harps (Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque), classical pedal harp | website = }}

'''Mara Galassi''' (born 1956, in Milan) is an Italian harpist,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://yle.fi/radio1/musiikki/konsertteja/gambojen_melankolinen_sointi_31348.html| title = Konsertteja {{!}} Audio Areena}}</ref> musicologist and recording artist<ref name="harpm">{{Cite web|url=http://www.harpmasters.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=134&lang=iso-8859-1|title = HARP MASTERS - Mara Galassi}}</ref> specializing in the music for Early harps,<ref name="esmuc.cat">{{Cite web |url=http://www.esmuc.cat/esmuc_digital/Departaments/Musica-Antiga/Professorat-Assignatures/Mara-Galassi |title=Mara Galassi |access-date=2013-03-29 |archive-date=2013-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014172813/http://www.esmuc.cat/esmuc_digital/Departaments/Musica-Antiga/Professorat-Assignatures/Mara-Galassi |url-status=dead }}</ref> including Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque, in particular double (cross-strung) and triple harps of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, as well as Classical era single-action pedal harps.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.glossamusic.com/glossa/artist.aspx?id=22|title=Mara Galassi}}</ref>

She holds degrees from Pesaro Conservatory of Music and the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan. She studied historical performance practice under harpsichordist David Collyer in Amsterdam, lutenist Patrick O'Brien in New York City, and musicology with Michael Morrow in London.

Since 2013 she is a professor of modern and historical harps at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. She is a founding member of the Historical Harp Society.<ref name="esmuc.cat"/>

Mara Galassi is active as a soloist, as well as a member of early music Ensembles, including Hesperion XX (dir. Jordi Savall), Concerto Soave,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.concerto-soave.com/artistes/galassi.html|title=Concerto Soave}}</ref> Concerto Vocale (dir. René Jacobs), Concerto Italiano (dir. Rinaldo Alessandrini), Mala Punica (dir. Pedro Memelsdorff), and Cantus Cölln (dir. Konrad Junghänel).

Galassi is also a musicologist doing research on historical harps.<ref name="harpm"/>

Her CD "Il Viaggio di Lucrezia" won the “Cannes Award” and “Choc de la Musique” awards.<ref>{{Cite web | title=500 - Internal server error. | url=http://www.residenzerealilombarde.it/uploads/files/Anamorphosis_Musicae_-_MONZA.pdf | access-date=2026-03-21 | website=www.residenzerealilombarde.it}}</ref>

==Filmography== VOLUPTAS DOLENDI: I Gesti del Caravaggio (а film by Francesco Vitali, with Mara Galassi & Deda Cristina Colonna)<ref>"MUSICA" novembre 2010 p.92 (recensione DVD) e p.31 (proiezioni all'Ambrosiana) </ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catacoustic.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-with-francesco-vitali.html|title = Catacoustic News: Interview with Francesco Vitali, Filmmaker of Voluptas Dolendi: I Gesti del Caravaggio|date = 3 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fondazionecsc.it/events_detail.jsp?IDAREA=9&ID_EVENT=346&GTEMPLATE=events.jsp | title=Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia }}</ref>

==Discography== * Davidsharfen: Mara Galassi & Flora Papadopoulos (2024 Glossa GCD 921305) <ref>{{cite web | url=http://glossamusic.com/glossa/reference.aspx?id=566 | title=DAVIDSHARFEN Music for two harps. Mara Galassi, Flora Papadopoulos }}</ref> * Il Viaggio Di Lucrezia: Solo Harp – Mara Galassi (Glossa CD ASIN: B000047988) * G.F.Handel: Microcosm Concerto (Label: PID ASIN: B002USOVQO) * Gabriela Bosio & Mara Galassi: Les Harpes du Ciel * Domenico Cimarosa: Salon de femmes in Saint Petersburg, Opus III: OP30299 Release Date: 10-Sep-2001

==References== {{reflist}} * {{Cite web | title=mara galassi > harpist | url=http://maragalassi.org | access-date=2026-03-21 | website=maragalassi.org}} * {{Cite web | title=MARA GALASSI, biography, discography | url=http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/11147.php | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026020715/http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/11147.php | archive-date=2007-10-26 | access-date=2026-03-21}} * {{Cite web | title=Mara Galassi | url=http://www.glossamusic.com/artists/mgalassi.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820064622/http://www.glossamusic.com/artists/mgalassi.htm | archive-date=2008-08-20 | access-date=2026-03-21}}

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