Petrina is the winner of Premio Ciampi 2007 , the Ciampi Award 2007, one of the most important italian awards for songwriting.

With her songs, either in solo or in trio (drum and bass), she has performed in places like the Cafe du Nord in S.Francisco, or The Stone in New York, the befamous place founded by John Zorn, in duo with Mike Sarin (drums), invited by Elliott Sharp.

She plays in several italian jazz festivals (e.g. Concentus Musicus in Florence, Carambolage in Bolzano, UbiJazz in Venice, Womajazz in Modena, New Conversations in Vicenza), in rock contests, and in avant-garde stages, in parks and in theaters, in clubs and in villas.
 
After the Ciampi Award she is invited by many national radio and tv networks: RaiRadio1, Tg2, Popolare Network, Controradio, RadioCittàFutura, RaiRadio3.

Her masters in Italy and abroad (Academies of Budapest and Ljubljana) bring her soon to develope personal projects in classical, contemporary and avantgarde music.

She makes first italian and world performances of works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Nino Rota, Bruno Maderna, Camillo Togni, Eunice Katunda, Leos Janácek, György Kurtág, George Enescu, in all continents: in London, Strasburg, S.Francisco, Tokyo (Symphony Hall), Osaka, Havana (Roldàn Theater), and of course in Italy.

In may 2008 she performed, in La Fenice Theater in Venice, the world premiere of the first Concerto for piano and orchestra by Bruno Maderna, in the two-pianos version, by the same composer. 

In 2007 she plays at Mills College Concert Hall, in Oakland (California) a program for voice and piano with unpublished scores by italian composers, some of them expecially written for her. 

She has premiered in La Habana, Cuba, a programme of her own arrangements and recompositions of the music of the Radiohead (Don’t Forget: Amnesiac), a concert organized by The National Institute of Music, who had invited her also for a first performance of Debora’s own reworking of the piano Contrandanzas by Cuban XIX century composer Manuel Saumell (her project Ojos de Pepa).

She has made recording premieres of composer Morton Feldman for an independent american label (Early and Unknown Piano Pieces, OgreOgress) and took part in the A Call for Silence CD compiled by the Sonic Arts Network (UK).

Petrina is also a dancer, combining with this her singing, vocal improvisation and compositions of texts and music.

In UK, in the Conway Hall of London, for the launch of the book Morton Feldman Says , she has choreographed and performed, while playing the piano, the Three Dances by Morton Feldman.

In 2007 she has been invited to the Festival Lavori in Pelle (Alfonsine, Ra), to present She-Shoe, a solo of dance and voice. For the same solo she is invited by Arteven to the Explò Festivals in Venice and Urbino.

A videoclip has been taken from the live performance, and it won the ‘Pink Music Clip’ award and the award for the best lyrics (in english) in the Music for Eyes 2007 Competition.

Moreover, the videoclip has been invited to the International Dance Film Festival 2008 in Yokohama, and projected during the Italian Award for the best Indipendent Videoclip (P.I.V.I).

Petrina works also with Sara Wiktorowicz (Amsterdam), choreographer and former dancer in Galili Dance Company and for Jan Fabre. She danced in Sara's projects in solo (voice and dance) and duet, at the Grand Theatre of Groningen (Holland) in 2006, at the Dansatelier of Amsterdam, at the OperaEstateFestival (Bassano del Grappa, Vi) in 2008.