Violist Dorotea Vismara has performed in Europe, China, North and South America with the chamber ensembles Onibatan, Leonore Quartet and Gruppo Bruno Maderna. She has also played in chamber ensembles with musicians such as Stanley Dodds, Gao Ping, Deborah Hoffman, Timothy Lees, Monika Leskovar, Momenta Quartet, Parker Quartet, Marco Rogliano, Giovanni Sollima, among others, and has recorded for Gasparo Records and for Society of Composers International. Ms. Vismara has been principal violist of the Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, and tenured violist of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. A researcher of new studio teaching methods for violin and viola, her articles and projects have been published in the journals Laboratorio Musica, BeQuadro, InVoce, and by the publisher Curci. Former students of hers are faculty members in music conservatories and members of chamber ensembles and/or symphony orchestras in Italy and the USA. Dorotea Vismara was the host of the 43rd International Viola Congress in Cremona, Italy in 2016. Currently on the viola faculty at the Conservatorio di Musica “S. Giacomantonio” in Cosenza, she completed her studies in Italy (Viola Diploma andMM in Music History) and in the United States (MM in Viola) at the Conservatorio di Musica “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, at the Università degli Studi di Bologna and at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Piero Farulli, Giuseppina La Face and Masao Kawasaki.