Olivia Belli's colorful upbringing and adult life in Italy inspire a growing career of experimentation on the piano. Since self-releasing her first album, packed with arrangements of local film score favorites, she's deftly woven a catalog of unique interpretations for the instrument along with a body of original compositions.
She was born in Mantova and moved around for nearly a decade to accommodate her father's work as a bank manager. The family finally settled in Trieste when Olivia was nine; that same year, after considerable interest in the piano, she formally began les...