Fedra Florit, pianist, graduated  with distinction from the Conservatory of Trieste, and subsequently specialised  in chamber music at the Fiesole School of Music, studying with the Trio di Trieste, Dario De Rosa and Maureen Jones until 1982. She then embarked on  an intense concert career in Italy and abroad, performing over 350 concerts (in the U.S.A., China, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Turkey) in duo and trio ensembles.During this period she graduated cum laude in Philosophy with a focus on psychology, presenting a thesis on Freud’s clinical cases.

From 1982 to 2021, she taught Chamber Music at the Conservatories of Venice, Udine, and Trieste. Her students have won national chamber music competitions, including the “Premio delle Arti” promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR). Since 1985, she has pursued musicological work , initially as a music critic for Il Piccolo di Trieste and for RAI; she later collaborated with leading periodicals as well as several Italian Theatres and Concert organisations, writing programme notes  From October 1988 for five years, she was responsible for artistic planning  for the Chamber Music Season in  Mestre-Venice. In December 1992, she published the monograph “Il Trio di Trieste. Sessant’anni di musica insieme” through E.D.T., Turin. The book was officially presented at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and at the Gabinetto Viesseux in Florence. 

Since 1995, she has been the Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste”, dedicated to the artistic legacy of the Trio di Trieste and open to  ensembles from duo to quartet, including piano and strings. Alongside the Competition, she launched  the annual series “Premiatissimi”, which has brought young winners of the Trieste competition  back to Friuli Venezia Giulia  For 14 years, she served as music consultant for the International Chamber Music School of the Trio di Trieste in Duino (Trieste), and for three years as music consultant for the Regional Foundation for Performing Arts of Friuli Venezia Giulia. She is frequently a member of juries in international competitions.

For over 20 years, she promoted in Trieste the Piano Festival “Giovani interpreti & grandi Maestri” , which has featured over a hundred pianists, from R. Lupu and K. Zimerman to R. Plano, M. Baglini, E. Virssaladze, A. Cohen, J. Gilad, H. Schuch, E. Nebolsin, A. Nosè, R. Bahrami, B. Lupo, A. Kobrin, E. Bozhanov, G. Andaloro, E. Arciuli, D. Trifonov and many others. She also initiated several musical projects in some of Trieste’s most beautiful and historically significant venues,  under the title “Le musiche dell’Imperatore”.

Since 2004, the Chamber Music Association, under her direction, has presented an important annual concert season in Trieste, complementing the Competition, which since 2003 has adopted a biennial schedule for the performance section   and alternates with an edition dedicated to Composition (the Coral Award, in honour of Giampaolo Coral). The “Salotto cameristico” was held in the Sala del Ridotto of Teatro Verdi and in Sala Tripcovich, featuring highly prestigious ensembles such as the Camerata of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the String Quartet of Teatro alla Scala, Maureen Jones and Friends, I Virtuosi Italiani, the Philharmonische Camerata Berlin, alongside outstanding young emerging ensembles from around the world, including Duo Sitkovetsky, Trio Debussy, Trio Mondrian, Ars Trio, Trio Gaon, and the Josef Suk Piano Quartet.

The current CROMATISMI concert season is  an annual series held at Teatro Miela  featuring at least 15 evening concerts, supplemented by approximately  12 outreach concerts each year in Udine, Gorizia, and Trieste.
Fedra Florit has been a member of the Rotary Club Trieste Nord since 2009 and was awarded the PHF in 2019, later becoming President of the Club. In 1997, the President of the Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, bestowed upon her the title of Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.

(November 2022)