Mariangela Vacatello began performing at the age of 5 and made her official début in Milan at the age of 14, performing Liszt's First Piano Concerto with the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra. Since then she has appeared in the most prestigious Italian venues and festivals as a soloist and also as a chamber musician with Rocco Filippini, Toby Hoffman, Gary Hoffman and the Ysaye Quartet. Mariangela has also worked with orchestras including the Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, Johannesburg Philarmonic Orchestra, NordwestDeutsch Philarmonia, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and Zagreb Philarmonia Orchestra, under the baton of such conductors as Penderecky, Korsten, Gueller, Nelsons Hamar, Franklin, Tabachnik, Kawka, Haselboeck, Aprea and Nanut.
She is in great demand internationally with invitations to the Montpellier Festival, Paris, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Bruxelles, Zagreb, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Santander and Mexico. Her performances are regularly broadcast by Radio France Musique, Radio della Svizzera Italiana, Radio 3 Italia, Musiq3, Radio Pretoria. Mariangela made her New York debut playing at Bargemusic and later gave a recital at Carnegie Hall as well as her recital début at Wigmore Hall.
In March 1999, at the age of 17, she won 2nd prize at the Liszt International Piano Competition in Utrecht, later winning the Concerti in Villa International Prize in Vicenza, Italy, in June 2004 and in 2005 was finalist at the "Paloma O'Shea Piano Competition" in Santander, Spain, and awarded 2nd prize at the Busoni International Piano Competition Italy.
She lives in London and is currently attending the Post-Graduate Performance Course at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Christopher Elton. She is recipient of the Sterndale Bennett Scholarship and is helped by Musicians' Benevolent Fund, The Tillet Trust, the Hattori and Solti foundations and the Academie Musicale de Villecroze.