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Lauréat du
Concours Rostropovich à Paris. Activités de soliste
international avec les orchestres les plus prestigieux.
Directeur artistique et soliste de divers ensembles.
Professeur à l’Acccademia Musicae di Pavia.
was
born into a family of musicians.
At the age of six he began studying cello and afterwards
graduated at the "G. Verdi" Conservatoire of music in
Turin. Later on, he perfected his studies with Egidio Roveda
and with Antonio Janigro.
In 1987, at the age of 22, he began performing as principal
cellist in the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, for eleven years
until 1998.
In 1997 he won the
First Prize at "ROSTROPOVICH" Competition in Paris, the
great Russian Maestro wrote about him: “he is a cellist of
exceptional qualities, a complete artist and a formed
musician, with an extraordinary sound which flows as a
splendid Italian voice”.
Since then, he
began the soloist activity performing in many countries,
with prestigious Orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philarmonic Orchestra, the
Orchestre Nationale de France, the Orchestre du Capitole de
Toulouse, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra
Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Orchestra dell’Accademia
di Santa Cecilia, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Orchestra, the State Orchestra of Sao Paulo, the Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He also performed with important
Conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Aldo Ceccato,
Gianandrea Noseda, Myung-Whun Chung, Paavo Jarvj, Valery
Gergev, Riccardo Muti as well as Mstislav Rostropovich.
He was guest in
numerous Festivals and Concert halls of the whole world
among which London (Wigmore Hall), Paris Evian, Montpellier,
Santiago de Compostela, participating at the Budapest
"Spring Festival", at the Settimane Musicali of Stresa, and
at the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, and he was
invited at the Dubrovnik Festival and by Gidon Kremer at the
Lockenhaus Festival.
In May 2000 the
Associazione Nazionale Italiana Critici Musicali (Italian
National Association of Musical Critics) confers him the
“Abbiati” Prize as the best soloist of the 1998/1999 Season.
In August 2004 he was named overall winner of the Sixth
International Web Concert Hall Competition, and in
November 2005 the President of the Italian Republic Carlo
Azeglio Ciampi awarded him the “Vittorio De Sica” Prize for
the music.
Among the authors
that composed music dedicated to him there are Giulio
Castagnoli (Concerto for Cello and double Orchestra),
Carlo Boccadoro (L’Astrolabio del mare, for cello and
piano and Asa Nisi Masa, for cello, two horns and
strings), Carlo Galante (Luna in Acquario, for cello
and ten instruments) and Roberto Molinelli (Twin Legends,
for cello and Strings and Crystalligence, for cello
solo).
In December 2001
he founded the Cultural Association “I Quattro Cavalieri”
(together with the Pavia Municipality and the Fondazione
Banca del Monte di Lombardia) of which he is the Artistic
Director. The Chamber Ensemble "I
Solisti di Pavia",
of which he is the Musical Director, is part of this
Association, together with the
Accademia Musicale di Pavia,
where he is Professor of Cello.
Enrico Dindo
records for Decca and plays a Pietro Rogeri cello of 1717
(ex Piatti), confided to him by the Pro Canale Foundation.
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