“Extremely tenacious, she plays with great care for sound and has an elegant finishing touch, and musical phrasing to which we have to add strength of communication and the strong technique that is required to play the 24 Capricci” A.Cantù, music critic, journalist and writer.

“In her hands, the violin is transformed, becoming a creature pulsating with life” G. Salvatori, music critic and journalist, RAI, Tg2 Cultura e Società.

“An inimitable performer of Paganini... shaping the music with a pure expression that gushes out from the soul and that conquers” Prize “Le Arti” P. Amatiello, Roma, Sala della Protomoteca del Campidoglio.

"A sublime interpreter of my music... and also of the music of others!" Franco Mannino

“Alessandra Cuffaro is one of the most complete and ingenious musicians of the Third Millennium” N. Mula, art critic and journalist.

Ms. Cuffaro is the first woman in the history of Italian violinists to perform the most difficult virtuoso pieces ever written for violin, Nicolò Paganini's 24 Capricci Op.1 in one concert. Recently, she was celebrated among the most important Italian Americans of the present generation, with the Cultural Award by ILICA Foundation in New York City for her Paganini performances. The motivation for the prize says “To have promoted the most authentic Italian culture around the world: Unique like Paganini”

She has played all 24 Capricci about 23 times around the world.

Ms. Cuffaro graduated in only six years, rather than the regular twelve, from the Corelli Conservatory, Italy, under the guidance of Luigi Fusconi, student of Arrigo Pelliccia. Her studies continued at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and in Rome with Riccardo Brengola, winner of the Premio Paganini. Life-changing was her encounter with a renowned violinist, a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and concertmaster at the Bolshoi Theater, Serguey Girshenko, a pupil of David Oistrach. In Rome, she also studied and became an assistant of Serguej Diachenko, from the school of Jury Janklevich and Herbert Von Karajan, and collaborated with musicians like Bruno Canino, Teresa Procaccini, Konstantin Bogino, Anatole Lieberman, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Emanuele Andrizzi and Stephen Goss. While in Rome, she earned her second degree in Chamber Music from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory , and later in the United States, she earned the Artist Diploma at the University of Denver with Linda Wang in only nine months and performing Paganini’s 24 Capricci at the graduation recital. More