Sara Andreacchio graduated in 2009 with honors in piano performance from Vibo Valentia Conservatory (IT). She continued her studies in Piano Pedagogy at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “Vecchi-Tonelli”, Modena (IT), completing a Master degree in 2011. Meanwhile she studied composition with Antonio Giacometti.
In 2012 she specialized in piano performance with Vovka Ashkenazy at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, completing in 2015 a Master of Advanced Studies in Music Performance and Interpretation. Meanwhile she pursued graduate studies in music theory and analysis (Università della Calabria, IT).
In Italy, she has participated as a pianist and composer in numerous musical events, conferences and interdisciplinary projects, while having an activity as a piano teacher. 
From 2016 she settled in Switzerland to pursue her studies in ethnomusicology, specializing on intercultural musical exchanges. In February 2019 she completed a Master of Arts in Ethnomusicology at the University of Neuchâtel/Geneva, HEM Geneva.
Currently, she teaches Balinese Gamelan at the Musik-Akademie Basel and is completing her PhD at the University of Geneva on Francesco Pollini’s piano compositions. Her PhD project was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the project “Francesco Pollini and the early Italian piano tradition” at the Hochschule der Künste Bern.

Research project
Francesco Pollini