She was just 4 years old when she first sat down at the piano, and 11 by the time she was giving piano performances on stage, accompanied by a symphony orchestra. In a career that has spanned over thirty years, she has performed on every continent, in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Cadogan Hall in London, Kioi Hall in Tokyo and Verona’s Arena, as well as going to places further off the beaten path in a bid to bring music beyond its usual borders – from the experimental township of Auroville in India to Easter Island, to Rio de Janeiro’s Favela Rocinha and the townships of Cape Town – without ever losing sight of social consciousness.

Born in Veneto in 1986, Gloria Campaner is considered one of the most versatile and dynamic pianists of her generation, exploring new forms of expression and interactions between classical music and other art forms, including fusions with jazz (she has worked with Stefano Bollani, Leszek Mozdzer and Franco D’Andrea), electronic music (Alioscia Bisceglia of Casino Royale, Boosta of Subsonica), as well as with contemporary dance and even sculpture (she played the “Sound Stones” of and with Pinuccio Sciola) and literature (the project dedicated to Beethoven with Alessandro Baricco and the Canoca Chamber Orchestra performed at Verona’s Arena and the Teatro Communale in Ferrara which was streamed for schools throughout Italy). She has recorded for EMI, Warner Classics and Sony Music.

Recently, at the height of her globetrotting career, she decided to indefinitely pause her performance work. Not because she no longer plans to perform, but to further explore new artistic modes, and a new way to ‘serve music’. Or better, musicians. This was how the “C# See Sharp” project was born. Its scope is to train talented young people to look inside and ‘look beyond’, to overcome their own fears, express their creativity and set their emotions alight. Now Gloria has another service to offer in her role of performance coach, with a training program developed for talented artists, but which can also be useful for anyone who finds themselves facing any sort of public performance. So much so that she regularly holds seminars and masterclasses all over the world.

Always with the mindset of acquiring new skills and experiences tied to the world of performance, Gloria Campaner is now interested in opera direction, directing for the stage, and musical theatre in general. She is already the artistic director of Taranto’s MAP Festival, Messina’s Associazione Bellini and Festival friulano “Nei Suoni dei luoghi” [Among the sites of sound]. In 2024, she and Nicola Campogrande launched “Seven Springs – Il suono della Holden” [The sound of Holden], the first musical venture of Scuola Holden in Turin.

In 2025 she developed the project “La palestra delle emozioni” [The gym for emotions] for the Vecchi Tonelli Conservatory of Music in Modena, an innovative educational course aimed at learning how to manage fear, anxiety and insecurity, feelings which are common for anyone getting on a stage.

She closed out the Closing Ceremony of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games at Verona’s Arena, an honour which recognised her artistic career and her ability to speak to diverse publics through music. On that occasion, her piano gave voice to a symbolic moment of shared experience and collective memory, bringing to the world stage the intensity and grace that have always defined her work.