Geminiani Foundation

Gian Marco Sanna

Founder & Director

Gian Marco Sanna is an Italian violinist and violist, and the Founder and Director of Geminiani Foundation. He created the Foundation from the artistic vision of The Geminiani Project, with the aim of bringing classical music, education, and cultural access to a wider community.

He is also the Artistic Director of Camerata Geminiani, an ensemble connected to the Foundation’s distinctive 432Hz artistic identity. His work as a performer and teacher brings together musical discipline, human formation, and the belief that art can transform lives.

Through many years of performing and teaching, Maestro Sanna has worked as a soloist, leader, chamber musician, and educator, collaborating with musicians and ensembles across Europe. Through Geminiani Foundation, he now continues this work with a broader charitable purpose: to make serious musical education accessible, meaningful, and deeply human.

Valeria Affatato

Co-Founder

Valeria Affatato is an Italian pianist, accompanist, opera coach, and music educator based in London. She graduated from the Conservatory F.A. Bonporti in Trento, with studies in piano performance and instrumental/vocal collaboration.

Her work includes piano accompaniment, opera coaching, music theory, choir and ensemble work, and teaching students of different ages and levels. She has collaborated with conservatoires, music schools, singers, choirs, orchestras, and theatrical productions in Italy, the UK, and abroad, including work in China.

Valeria has performed as an accompanist in festivals, concerts, exams, opera rehearsals, and educational projects, bringing strong sight-reading skills, flexibility, and wide practical musical experience. As Co-Founder of Geminiani Foundation, she contributes musicianship, care, and a serious commitment to education and human development through music, embracing with enthusiasm the Foundation’s distinctive work at 432Hz.

Gregers Brinch

Co-Founder

Gregers Brinch is a Danish composer, pianist, singer, teacher, and artistic director. He studied composition and piano in Hamburg, graduating in 1992, and later held senior music teaching roles in Germany and at Emerson College, Sussex.

His work has been performed in the UK, Denmark, Germany, France, and the United States, including at Wigmore Hall. He is Co-Artistic Director of the International Concert Series at Steiner Hall in London, and brings to Geminiani Foundation a deep commitment to listening, education, composition, and living musical culture.

As Co-Founder of Geminiani Foundation, he contributes artistic experience, spiritual-cultural sensitivity, and an open, enthusiastic interest in the Foundation’s distinctive work at 432Hz.

Franco Mezzena

Artistic Mentor

Born in Trento-Italy, the renown violinist Franco Mezzena  studied with Salvatore Accardo. He performed in the most famous concert halls of Europe,, North & South America, Japan, and Africa; he recently performed at the Carnegie Hall which was a notable success. Amongst his collaborations are names like Bruno Mezzena (his father), Salvatore Accardo, Rocoo Filippini, Ruggiero Ricci, Giovanni Sollima. He is regularly invited to have masterclasses from Royal College of Music of London, Oxford Hertford College,  Leipzig Hochschule, Tokyo and others. He plays the “Ex-Kayser” Stradivari  and violins from Regazzi and Fiori. 

Maestro Mezzena has welcomed his role as Artistic Mentor with warmth and genuine enthusiasm, recognising in the Foundation’s work at 432Hz a sincere, distinctive, and deeply musical path.