Nadia, born in 1952 in Ticino, Switzerland, the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland, started playing guitar at age 11.

After finishing high school in Switzerland, Nadia studied musicology at the University of Bologna in Italy. While In Bologna, Nadia played guitar and sang with feminist singer songwriter ANTONIETTA LATERZA. She also played cello and sang with GRUPPO EMILIANO DI MUSICA POPOLARE.

In 1982 Nadia returned to Ticino and worked as a journalist and later as a freelance translator for Swiss Italian Radio/Television. She performed as a member of the improvisational theatre group TEATRO DELLE RADICI. In 1989 Nadia formed the band VERANDA with local musicians Peter Zemp, Silva Gonzato and Mario Amato.

In 2001 Nadia moved to Geneva, the French-speaking region of Switzerland, and performed her one-woman show “Ballade rocailleuse de la chèvre perdue des Alpes” (“Ballad of the Lost Mountain Goat”). She produced a demo CD of several original compositions including “Lucy” and “Arculinge.” In 2007 Nadia again joined Peter Zemp, composer, bass player and accordionist, as singer and acoustic guitarist along with clarinettist Simone Mauri to form the Italian-Swiss band IL TRIO E IL CARPIONE.

In 2012 Nadia began living part of the year in Wilmington, Delaware. When back in Ticino, Nadia continues her musical activity with IL TRIO E IL CARPIONE; in Wilmington, she performs solo in various venues. Recently, Nadia attended guitar workshops in New Jersey with the internationally known Italian fingerpicking guitarist Beppe Gambetta and participated in the “Swannanoa Gathering Guitar Week” in North Carolina.


 
Nadia’s first musical love was northern Italian folk music and the French singer songwriters Brel, Brassens and Barbara followed by the Anglo-Saxons Dylan, Donovan, Cohen; the Catalans Lluís Llach and Joan Manuel Serrat; the Cubans Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés; and the Italians Jannacci, De Andrè, Giovanna Marini, and De Gregori. Nadia’s musical style is melodic, sweet and slightly sad with unexpected rhythmic starts and stops. From folk tunes, she slips into pieces of her own invention. Beppe Gambetta, referred to as a “virtual United Nations of influences,” has said: “Nadia improvises with the heart, looking for the notes on the guitar in a spontaneous way; a rare quality.”