oil on canvas, 2024
23 x 23 inches

I met Marianna Filippi many years ago when she was busking outside a gallery opening on the sidewalk. I did some quick sketches, and asked if she’d posed for me. She did indeed pose a couple times, playing her beautiful music while I worked.

This is the painting that emerged after almost five years of evolution.

You can find more about Marianna and her music at her website, mariannafilippimusic.com

Filippi earned her Master’s in Music Composition from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2022, studying with Niels Rosing-Schow, Jeppe Just Christensen, and Rune Glerup. In 2023, she was commissioned by the KGL Theater to write a chamber piece for the Royal Danish Orchestra’s 575th Jubilee and to transcribe works for Østre Gasværk Teater’s Another Brick in the Wall: Part 5. She continues to work full-time as an independently contracted commissioned composer, composing for a wide variety of different ensembles, ranging anywhere from cello and guitar duo to SATB choir and cello octet to symphony orchestra.