Giovanni Gnocchi, cellist
Giovanni Gnocchi has been Solo-Cellist of Camerata Salzburg from 2003 until 2010, and in the season 2011-2012 he served as Guest Principal Cellist in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London.
Laureate in the Prague Spring International Cello Competition, Antonio Janigro Competition of Zagreb, in duo at the Parkhouse Award of London at the Wigmore Hall, and winner in trio of the “F. J. Haydn” Competition of Vienna, held at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Giovanni made his debut as soloist in a concert together with Yo-Yo Ma, who said: “I had the honour to play with Giovanni Gnocchi, very musical and very open to new ideas, who performed beautifully and with great expression. He’s a wonderfully talended young cellist who will make a valuable contribution to music wherever he goes”.
Giovanni later performed as soloist under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel (Haydn Concerto in D-major in Salzburg, where the critics spoke of “brilliant technique and joy in music making”), Christopher Hogwood, Carlo Rizzi, Daniele Giorgi, Pavle Despalj, at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Grosses Saal of Mozarteum in Salzburg in the Mozart-Woche, at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Essen Philharmonie, Rosengarten Mannheim, Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Würzburg, Stuttgart, with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, with Orchestra della Toscana of Florence, and many times with Camerata Salzburg.
Giovanni has been founding member of the David Piano Trio, winning also 2 First Prizes in International Chamber Music Competitions in USA, laureate in the “Vittorio Gui” Competition in Firenze and the “Trio di Trieste” Award and winner of the Fellowship of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust of Londra (artistic director Mitzuko Uchida).
Giovanni in 2007 made his debut in the Wigmore Hall in London together with pianist Mariangela Vacatello and since 2010 he´s forming a duo with pianist Chiara Opalio, with whom he won the “Bruno Premuda” Prize in Trieste.
He performed in chamber music projects with the members of Hagen Quartet, Leonidas Kavakos, Diemut Poppen, Patrick Demenga, Hariolf Schlichtig, Aleksander Madzar, Howard Shelley, Mahler Chamber Soloists, Barbara Bonney, Christine Schäfer, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Marco Rizzi, Nabil Shehata, Danilo Rossi, Simonide Braconi, Eliot Fisk, Andrea Lucchesini, Herbert Schuch.
He took part in the Festival Casals of Prades, Lugano Festival, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, I concerti del Quirinale in Roma, Festival Radio-France-Montepellier, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Haydn Festspiele in Eisenstadt, Settimane Musicali del Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Settimane Musicali in Stresa, Megaron in Athens, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Festival Michelangeli of Brescia, Septembre Musical Montreux-Vevey, Verbier Festival.
Recently he also performed in many chamber music projects together with Alexander Lonquich, with whom he also played Strauss Sonata in the Sala Verdi of Milano for the Serate Musicali of Milano (2009) and Debussy Sonata and Webern duo pieces in Unione Musicale in Torino.
During the last past years Giovanni has been invited to play as Principal Cellist by the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Harding, Orchestra Mozart of Bologna with Claudio Abbado, Münchner Philharmoniker, Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Ashkneazy, co-principal in the London Symphony Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, and since 2008 he is a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.
Among the activities of the Lucerne Festival he also played in string sextet with Lucerne Festival Orchestra Soloists in KKL Luzern for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Lucerne Festival.
Most recent project include concerts in duo and trio with Ilya Gringolts and Alexander Lonquich, chamber music in the new Ark-Nova Hall of Matsushima in Japan with the Sextet of Lucerne Festival Orchestra (with Wolfram Christ and Jens-Peter Maintz), performance of the Rococo Variations of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Dvorak Concerto in Italy, and other chamber music projects with Lukas Hagen, Pierre Amoyal, Thomas Riebl.
Born in Cremona in 1977, Giovanni studied with Rocco Filippini and Mario Brunello, he studied for a long time with Enrico Bronzi and he completed his studies at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg with Clemens Hagen, attending also Masterclasses of Heinrich Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Natalia Gutman, David Geringas, Gary Hoffman, Antonio Meneses, Pieter Wispelwey, Andràs Schiff, Thomas Adés, Ferenc Rados, Erich Höbarth, Hatto Beyerle, Gabor Takàcs-Nagy.
Giovanni has been teaching in Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Accademia di Portogruaro, Festival Cameralia in Santiago de Compostela and founded and led for 4 years the cello class at the Accademia “Incontri col Maestro” of Imola.
In 2013, after an international competition, he has been appointed as the new Univ. Professor of Cello at the Universität Mozarteum of Salzburg.
update: 30th of January 2014, please cancel all previous versions
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