PETRINA - singer, pianist and keyboardist, songwriter, composer and arranger, is one of the revelations of the independent Italian music scene.
 
Her debut album, in doma, distributed worldwide by Egea, features guests such as  Elliott Sharp, Emir Bijukic, Amy Kohn, and Ascanio Celestini, and it is already provoking the enthusiasm of the specialized press in Italy (Blow Up, AllAboutJazz, Il Mucchio, Jam, Rockerilla, Rumore etc.), and of the national and private radio networks (RaiRadio3 -  Battiti and Il Terzo Anello, Radio Popolare, Radio Capodistria, Radio Città Futura etc.).

Even if in doma represents something entirely new in the Italian musical panorama, Petrina already has on her hands the victory of the Ciampi Award 2007 for songwriting, and a row of collaborations and concerts all over the world.

In 2008 she was invited by  Elliott Sharp to The Stone, John Zorn's club in New York City, where she performed in duo with drummer Mike Sarin.

In 2007 Petrina appeared in one of the most important clubs in S.Francisco, the Café du Nord, sharing the bill with Amy X Neuburg and Emily Bezar.

On the same occasion she performed contemporary music premieres and original music at Mills College (Oakland), temple of the West Coast avant-garde in the 60s.

Invited to the Roldán Theatre, in La Havana, by the Instituto Cubano de la Musica, Petrina performed a program of 19th century cuban compositions, all reinvented and rearranged. On that occasion she gave an interview for the historical Radio Progreso.

She has also been invited to the Conway Hall in London, to play premieres by Morton Feldman. In that occasion she was also choreographer and dancer, while playing the piano.

In Italy she has performed in diverse venues, from classical and contemporary (she collaborates with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto since 1999), to avant-garde, to jazz, to rock stages. Here is a list of the most important of the last year:

the Teatro La Fenice, with a premiere by Bruno Maderna;
the Fondazione Cini in Venice, with premieres by Nino Rota;
the avant-garde festival The Piano Hour Series of the Concentus Musicus, in Florence, as composer and improviser at the prepared piano;
the Carambolage in Bolzano, one of the most respected jazz clubs of Northern Italy;
the New Conversation Jazz Festival, in Vicenza;
the stage of MEI 2008 and 2009 (Indipendent Label Meeting);
the IX edition of the prestigious Just Like A Woman Festival (Savona);
the Woman In Villa Festival, in Villa Manin (Codroipo);
the Festival of the Creativity in Florence.

She has made recording premieres of music by Morton Feldman for an independent American label (Early and Unknown Piano Pieces, OgreOgress) and took part in the A Call for Silence CD curated by Nicolas Collins for the Sonic Arts Network (UK).

She is often hosted at several national radio and TV networks: RaiRadio3 (live concerts and programs, such as Battiti, Il Terzo Anello and La Stanza della Musica), RaiRadio1 (awarded by the program Demo, which promotes new music), and Tg2 (Mizar dedicated her a program).

Petrina has also been featured on the National Hungarian Radio, and on the Italian independent radio network: Radio Popolare in Milan, Radio Città Futura in Rome, Radio Città Del Capo in Bologna, Radio Capodistria in Trieste, and Controradio in Florence (Il Popolo del Blues, conducted by Ernesto De Pascale).

In 2009 RaiRadio1 invited her for the festival Demo d’Autore as one of the 10 best Italian authors among the 1000 selected by the program Demo.