Presentation of the novel "Rimmel" by Margherita Torretta. With live piano performances

Presentation of the novel “Rimmel” by Margherita Torretta. With live piano performances.

Sveva is eighteen years old and has a promising future as a ballet dancer ahead of her but, suddenly, a serious accident annihilates her prospects.
From the rolling hills of Piacenza, she finds herself having to live for a few months in the Burn Unit of Parma Hospital, and it will be that very body that was blossoming and had allowed her to define her future that will instead spell the end of her plans.
She will find relief from the heaviness of her new condition in the strong bond with her grandmother Maria, a special woman with extraordinary vitality and an unfailing touch of rimmel on her eyelashes.
The journey of accepting a “patched-up” body takes time, winding through disappointments and strenuous identity adjustments, then finally music, a totalizing discovery that could give voice to her most intimate expressiveness.
But Sveva is overdue; she will have to work hard without ever losing sight of new goals that will too often be clouded by misguided and limiting loves.
She will have to understand that the indispensable first step to any action is self-knowledge and that the only way to try to be happy is to stay true to one’s aspirations.
Besides, as one of her close friends reminds her, “If you betray yourself, everything else around you will also bring unpleasant surprises.”

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Margherita Torretta was born in Castel San Giovanni in 1986.
An acclaimed interpreter of Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas since her first recording (2020, Academy Productions – D.Scarlatti-20 Keyboard sonatas), a repertoire already performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2016, she has performed in more than twenty countries around the world-in Europe, England, the United States, Asia, and Australia-including concert halls such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Paris, Steinway Hall in Dubai, and many others.
She graduated magna cum laude from the Conservatorio G.Nicolini in Piacenza, then went on to specialize at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan and earned a Master’s degree in Performance & Interpretation at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano.
From 2010 to 2015 she was a student at the International Academy of Lake Como conducted by William Grant Naboré perfecting with Fout’s ong, Dimitri Bashkirov and Stanislav Ioudenitch.
Margherita released a second album featuring the piano sonatas of Baldassare Galuppi (2023, Accademia di Musica Classica, B.Galuppi-6 keyboard sonatas) and in March 2024 she published her first novel Rimmel inspired by her personal story (2024, Pendragon editions).
A third solo album dedicated to the Italian-English composer Elisabetta De Gambarini will be released in fall 2024 on the Brilliant Classics label.
She has appeared in music magazines including Classics Today, The Art Desk, Pianist Magazine and International Piano. She has performed live concerts and given interviews on major radio and television networks including RAI Radio 3, RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera, France Musique, Radio France, Luxembourg 100.7 and Radio Romania Muzical. She currently lives in London.