Born in 1979, in Calabria, Italy, Simona Grossi began studying piano at age 10. She stopped playing when she was 16 but resumed two years ago and graduated in piano performance from the Conservatory of Frosinone, Italy, in October 2019. Recently she started studying conducting with Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Simona lives in Los Angeles, where she’s also a law professor at Loyola Law School Los Angeles and a fiction writer.