Paolo Bellocci, since 1988 Maestro collaborator of the Opera of Florence - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Artistic Director and Vice President of Opera Network Firenze, within which he carries out advanced training projects and high quality opera productions. He is an expert connoisseur of the singing repertoire of the Italian Opera. For many years he was Coordinator of Maggio Fiorentino Formazione and of the Puccini Festival Foundation of Torre del Lago Puccini. He holds Masterclasses in repertoire, interpretation and vocality of Italian Opera for Academies, Universities and International Music Conservatories, including that of St. Petersburg (Russian Federation), and i n China the Beijing Opera Academy, the University of Shijiazhuang, the Chongqing Conservatory of Music , the Sichuan Normal University of Chengdu, the Zigong Conservatory. Collaborate on special projects for young artists, including Young Artists Project, North Carolina University, Connecticut Lyric Opera (USA), Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, Xilin Gol League University (Inner Mongolia). For the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino theater he participated in the main tours of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, including those in Beijing, for “Turandot” (Zubin Mehta, Zhang Yimou) in the Forbidden City (1998), Tokjio and Yokohama (Bunka Kaikan, NBC, 2001, 2006, 2011), Recklinghausen, Muscat (Oman), numerous others. Musical organizer and relationship weaver, here some events that he contributed to conceived and created: Concerts at the Festival of Palaces of St. Petersburg (Marijnskj Palace, Kovatchina, Tsarskoe Zelo Palace), Hermitage Museum, for the exhibition “Michelangelo at the Hermitage”, Theater “Novaia Opera” in Moscow, in the Sala Paolo VI in the Vatican, with the orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conductor Zubin Mehta. Concert for the Unicef World Foundation, with the UN headquarters in New York.

Graduated in Violin with M° Luigi Gamberini, she has an intense concertistic activity both as soloist and as member of chamber groups. She has acquired a 40 years’ experience in teaching music to children in public schools as well as in private institutions. In 2001, she leaves the public school and she founded the children’s choir “Piccolo Coro Melograno”, which she has conducted in more than 500 concerts across Italy. In 2009, the choir evolves into a School for choral music that, nowadays, involves three different choirs with more than 90 participants overall, aged 4-25. She has attended masterclasses with Paul Phoenix, Basilio Astulez, Tullio Visioli, Panda Von Proosdij, Cristina Ganzerla, Luigi Leo, Sabrina Simoni, Siro Merlo. She has collaborated with several authors of children music such as: Beppe Dati, Siro Merlo, Giuseppe De Rosa, Gianfranco Fasano, Gianfranco Grottoli, Maria Francesca Polli.
She has been member of the National Panel to select the original songs for “Zecchino d’Oro”, an international competition for children songs, broadcasted on the National TV channel RAIUNO. She has been part of the Jury at International pop music contests as well as at National Choir competitions. With Piccolo Coro Melograno, she has participated in many National choir competitions, in which her choir received many prizes, including several Winners Prize and one Best Director Prize. With Piccolo Coro Melograno, she has also collaborated with Gabriel Garrido and with Ensemble Elyma, as well as with Italian comedians Giorgio Panariello and Daniela Morozzi and directed Piccolo Coro Melograno in front of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella.

Born in Florence in 1973, he completed his musical studies at the 'Luigi Cherubini' State Conservatory of Music, graduating in Clarinet with top marks and honors under the guidance of Maestro A. Zambelli. He subsequently perfected himself by attending masterclasses in Italy and abroad with F. Meloni. S. Meyer, T. Friedly, A. Pay, R. Crocilla and taking part in the professional training courses of the 'A. Toscanini' of Parma and the Orchestra of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala. Since 1998 he has held the role of second clarinet in the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.