Marcela Fiorillo was born in the city of Buenos Aires. She is a graduate of the Carlos López Buchardo National Conservatory, and studied piano in Argentina with Haydeé Loustanau and Celia Bronstein, composition with Jacobo Ficher and chamber music with Tomás Tichauer and Ljerko Spiller and in the U. S. with Alfonso Montecino and Menahem Pressler. She has taken classes with Rudolph Kerer, Earl Wild, Carlo Bruno and Pierre Sancan.
She carries out an intense piano and pedagogical activity in Argentina. As a pianist she has appeared in several of the country's most important halls, among others the Colón Theater, Auditorio de Belgrano, Centro Cultural Recoleta and San Martín Theater, as well as in radio and television shows. She has recorded five CDs. As a teacher she currently chairs the Piano Department in Annex II of the Higher Music Conservatory "Manuel de Falla".
At the international scene, in 1994 she participated in the Fifth International Congress of the Association of Semiotic Studies, at Berkeley University, U.S.A., as the only Latin American music representative. Between 1994 and 1997, she performed in the Summer Recitals of Bloomington University, Indiana, where she had already previously offered Argentine music concerts. She has premiered works by Argentine composers such as A. Ginastera, M. Kutnowski, H. López de la Rosa, A. Piazzolla, P. Sáenz and A. Tauriello among other countries in Australia,China,France, Italy and the U.S.A.. Her New York debut took place in 2000, with a series of concerts devoted to the dissemination of Argentine music, in the universities of Queens, Queensborough and New York City University and in Washington, D.C. In 2001 and 2002, she took part in the festivals "Musique sans Frontieres" and "Fêtes Musicales de Savoie", in France.
She appeared in 2005 and 2006 at the International Multicultural Canberra Festival of Australia; the ANU Ibero-American Cultural Festival and at the Llewellyn Hall, of the Australia National University School of Music.
She has been the recepient of awards granted by the Fundación Cultural Coliseum, the Fundación Leonor Hirsch and the Mozarteum Argentino.
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