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Giulia Biagetti obtained her Piano Diploma at the Conservatory "L. Boccherini" in Lucca and Organ and Organ Composition Diploma at the Conservatory "G. Frescobaldi" in Ferrara.
She studied composition with Marino Pratali and Gaetano Giani Luporini, composers from Lucca.
She has attended specialization courses under the direction of L.F. Tagliavini, M. Radulescu, H. Vogel, Michel Chapuis, and other courses with Arturo Sacchetti, Giancarlo Parodi, R. Saorgin etc. She teaches Organ and Gregorian chant at the Lucca Conservatory of music, and Organ at the city school of music of Capannori.

She is the official organist of St. Martin's Cathedral in Lucca and organist of the "Cappella S. Cecilia", the cathedral choir with a prestigious choral tradition which has contributed to the recording of 12 CDs dedicated to the Puccini family and other musicians from Lucca. (Ed. Bongiovanni - BO).
She has published various articles on the problems of the organ and organbuilding (Informazione Organistica, Bollettino Ceciliano).
She has taken part in various concerts as accompanist and basso continuo; as organ soloist she has given many concerts in Italy and other European countries. Several times she had the honour of representing Italy on special occasions such as the 900th anniversary of the Croatian Church in Zagreb in 1994 and at a festival entirely dedicated to women organists from all over the world in the Passau Cathedral in 1997.
Her programs are often dedicated to particular authors or specific themes.
Giulia Biagetti

Since 1994 she has been invited to play in the Salzburg Cathedral six times, always as a guest of the "Orgelmatineen".
She is art director of the organ vespers in the Lucca Cathedral, artistic consultant for the Sagra Musicale Lucchese, President of the Association "Marco Santucci di Camaiore" and art director of the Camaiore Organ Festival.
She has recorded a CD of romantic organ music.