Virna Splendore is a self-taught musician. She started playing the Stick in 1985, after she saw Jim Lampi demonstrating it at the Music Trade Show in Italy. She bought her first Stick right away at the Trade Show has never left it. The Stick became her main instrument. Before switching to Stick she played several instruments, such as classical guitar, piano, bass, and even clarinet, but none of these instruments seemed to satisfy her. When she found the Stick she found her treasure.

Virna got skilled with the Stick very instinctively, being certainly influenced by the Stick player Jim Lampi. Very soon she started to compose her own music with the Stick. She joined two Stick seminars as a student in 1991 and 1992 and later she herself started teaching the Stick in Italy and at the European seminars. Since 2001 she has been organizing Stick seminars in Italy. During music sessions of various genres, he built the idea of his solo performance

Today Splendore is an active Stick player, playing live shows, teaching and organizing Stick seminars, and being the exclusive representative of Stick Enterprises Inc. in Italy.

In 1998, together with Roberto Fiorucci, she released her first album Guilty, where Splendore and Fiorucci appeared as a Stick duo. The production process of their first work was long and the result could have been better, but the music compensates for the production level.

It took a long time before she resumed recording, but in 2004 she released her second album Different Things with Tony Levin as special guest in one song and with a full Stick band of Roberto Fiorucci and Andrea Moneta on the Stick and Stick Bass MIDI, and Raffaele Magrone on the clarinet. The Stick sounds more "sticky" on this album, and the ensemble with other instruments - piano, guitar, drums gives it more "live" sound.

In the summer of 2004 Splendore produced her third album Habla Conmigo, a solo album that she recorded at home during summertime, where she plays the Stick, th fretless bass and even sings in one of the songs. The music of the album is very intimate. To reach the desirable effect, Virna uses an e-bow and what she calls her "solo sound", the sound that she never uses playing live but likes to use for soloing on recordings.

She plays live with the Stick Duo, the Stick Trio or with her full band, According to the demand of the club, and during the years she has come trough Such experiences as playing live with Michael Manring at Allaire Tapping Festival in 2004, with California Guitar Trio as an opening act of their Ialian tour, opening acts for two concerts of Rachel Z, and last but not least, an opening act for Tony Levin Band during their Italian tour.