Francesca Venturi Ferriolo is an Italian violist, performing and researching the viola solo and chamber music repertoire from Baroque to Romantic.

She is a Ph.D. student at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt.

She is a co-founder member of the early music Ensemble ​Il Quadro Animato​ with whom she won the first prize at the International Selifa early music competition in 2015 and the special prize Kulturfeste im Land Brandenburg at the Gebrüder-Graun Competition in 2016. In the same year, the ensemble was selected for the Eeemerging Program for 2017- 2018.

In 2016, she won a scholarship to attend the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in Toronto, Canada. In 2015, she won the viola’s selection to take part in the project Génération Baroque in Strasbourg, led by Martin Gester.

Venturi Ferriolo studied viola (Master's program in Historical Interpretation Practice) with Professor Petra Müllejans and Mechthild Karkow at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She previously studied with Werner Saller, Aroa Sorin, Patrick Jüdt, Giuseppe Miglioli and instructed during masterclasses led by Susanne Scholz, Aida Carmen Soanea, Patrick Jordan, Christian Goosses, Lucy Van Dael, Ton Koopman and Ashley Solomon.

She has performed at festivals across Europe including the Vielklang Festival- Tübingen, Festival d'Ambronay, Thüringer Bachwochen, Händel- Festspiele, Beverley &  East Riding Early Music Festival-York, Haller Bach- Tage, Sonntagsmusik (Telemann- Haus Magdeburg) and konzertreihe Händel- Haus Halle.

In 2020 Francesca published her debut album More than a dull ripieno- baroque sonatas for viola with the label Da Vinci Classic. This recording was successfully received and positively reviewed on magazines and radio such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (cultural page), Musica, the Frankfurt Journal, Early Music Review, Music Voice, Venice Classic Radio, Radio Classica, Radio3, SWR2, BR Klassik and HR2-Kultur.

She is chairwoman of “Animato- Verein zur Förderung der Alten Musik” in Frankfurt a. M. and organizer of the concert Venue “Frankfurter Wandelkonzerte”.