Pianist & Composer
Olivia Belli
Italian pianist and composer Olivia Belli is based in the rural Marche region of central Italy. Reflecting on the nature and the world surrounding her, and on how people find their own place in it, Olivia’s poetic and often optimistic piano music has reached audiences around the world.
Olivia describes her musical education as a “normal classical background.” She studied piano to conservatoire level, working her way through the classical repertoire and developing a particular passion for the works of the 20th and 21st century – from Ligeti and Stockhausen to the American experimentalists Cage, Crumb, Reich, and Glass. “I began incorporating some of these ideas in my own music,” says Olivia, who has always composed but until recently it was a “private thing.”
“I feel like, as an artist, most of what I do is to observe – the nature around us, how it changes and how the people interact with it. I spend as much time outside as I can. I try to capture the metamorphosis of nature in my music, and how the experience of living in this environment makes me feel,” explains Olivia. “I practice transcendental meditation and I feel the same peace through that as I get from rural life.”
In April 2021, Olivia Belli announced her exclusive signing with XXIM Records, followed by the release of her debut album on the label, Sol Novo.
Today, Belli stands as a prolific artist with two acclaimed full-length albums to her credit, alongside many other captivating projects, EPs and collaborations.
Her latest four-track EP Intercosmia Vol.1 is the first of two planned EPs following Intermundia, her second full-lenght album, and sees the acclaimed pianist continue her journey in search of essentiality through the rediscovery of one’s spirituality.
Releases
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Single
Puccini: Vissi d’Arte
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EP
Intercosmia Vol.1
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Single
Respiro 5
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Single
Alma Venus
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Single
Anima III
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EP
Anima Flow
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Single
Anima II – Sleep Rework
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Album
Intermundia
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Single
Respiro 3
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Single
Mirando
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Single
Anima II
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Single
Pian Perduto
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Single
Amber Maze
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Single
Respiro 1
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Single
Valadier
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Single
Anima I
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EP
Of Time
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Single
Of Time 1 (JS Bach Variation)
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EP
Sonus Noctis
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Single
Nocturne III
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Single
Valse
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Single
Threnody (after Mozart)
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EP
Somnio Novo
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Single
Two Seas (Ed Carlsen Rework)
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Single
Sol Novo (Hugar Rework)
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Single
As I Was (Slow Meadow Rework)
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Single
Threnody (Piano Concerto No. 23)
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Single
Impromptu
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Single
Nocturne II
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Single
Prélude
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EP
Winter Variations
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Single
In the Bleak Midwinter Variation
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Single
Winter – Vivaldi Variation
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Album
Sol Novo
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Single
Island II
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Single
Grembo
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Single
Fingers, Be Rain
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Single
Upland
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Single
Sol Novo
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Single
Lea
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Single
As I Was
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Single
Visions to Come
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