Chiara Banchini is a Swiss violinist, involved in the historical performance practice movement.
She graduated from the Geneva Conservatory; following this, she studied under Sandor Vegh and then at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under Sigiswald Kuijken for the Baroque violin.
She taught at the Centre for Early Music in Geneva and began performing as a soloist.
The ensemble's recording of Arcangelo Corelli's Concerti Grossi for Harmonia Mundi was a commercial success in 1992, as was their 1996 recording of Antonio Vivaldi's Stabat Mater.
In 2014 she started a collaboration with Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra of which she is permanent conductor together with Claudio Astronio and Alfredo Bernardini.