The beginning is marked by the meeting with Giovanni Testori and the participation at the exhibition Artists and Writers at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan. After some solo exhibitions, his painting focuses on the tragedy that destroys part of Valtellina at the end of the eighties, grouping his work in Paesaggio Cancellato, an exhibition curated by Roberto Tassi (1990). At the end of the nineties, he is invited to the Quadriennale in Rome, in those years he begins an artistic journey throughout the ports of the Mediterranean and Southern Italy: in this context Isolitudine is born in 2000 together with Ferdinando Scianna , and MIXtura in 2003, with Franco Battiato.

In 2004 Electa publishes Velasco 20, a monograph on his first twenty years of work with a contribution by Giulio Giorello. Extramoenia (2004-2005) is an exhibition commissioned by the Region of Sicily, set up in Palermo (Palazzo Belmonte Riso) and Milan (Palazzo della Ragione). In 2005 he joins the MACRO’s collection in Rome. He creates Images, forms and nature of the Alps (2007) and LATO4 (2008), curated by Danilo Eccher.

Sbarco (2010), set up in Piazza Duomo and in the complex of Sant’Agostino in Pietrasanta and in Milan in Piazza Duca D’Aosta and Palazzo Reale, is curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Francesco Poli. In 2011 he is invited to the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale where he exhibits Veidrodis, the LKFF Gallery in Brussels hosts his solo show Branco, and Apriti Cielo is published by Skira, a collection of watercolors on the theme of the sacred: among these are some of the drawings made for the cultural page of Il Corriere della Sera, with whom he has been collaborating since 2007. In 2012 he created Foresta Rossa, an artistic intervention on Isola Madre (Stresa) and in Verbania, curated by Luca Molinari. The study of ghost towns, already at the base of this last installation, continues the following year with the solo exhibition Foresta Rossa: 416 città fantasma nel mondo at the Triennale di Milano, curated by Luca Molinari and Francesco Clerici. Still in 2013 he proposes three new monumental sculpture projects: Aria at the LKFF Gallery in Brussels, Branco at the Vittoriale degli Italiani, curated by Flavio Arensi, and Medi Terraneo at the Ruffo castle in Scilla. In 2014 he exhibits the sculpture Traditio Symboli in the Duomo of Milan and participates to the IV Biennale Gherdeina of sculpture in Ortisei, Val Gardena. 

In February 2015 he is invited to the Berlinale (winner of the FIPRESCI award) as producer and protagonist of the documentary Il Gesto Delle Mani directed by Francesco Clerici which portrays him during the execution of a bronze sculpture. In June of the same year, at the invitation of Emilio Mazzoli, he returns to exhibit in the gallery, with the exhibition FUGA (curated by Mark Gisbourne and Giacinto di Pietrantonio), at the Mazzoli Gallery in Modena. In 2017 he curates and designs (with the collaboration of Peter Greenaway) the exhibition Time Out dedicated to Giancarlo Vitali at Palazzo Reale, Castello Sforzesco, Museo di Storia Naturale and Casa del Manzoni. The project Veduta, curated by Danilo Eccher, at the M77 Gallery in Milan, takes place in 2019; the same year he proposes the installation Branco in the royal court of the Reggia di Venaria in Turin and in 2020 he designs a monument to the Resistance for the museum’s sculpture park and in Castel Ivano (TN), in collaboration with Arte Sella and the Mart of Rovereto.

The work Sbarco from this year is present in two different versions at the new PART museum in Rimini and at the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona. Between 2020 and 2021 he presents the exhibition Goldwatch in double exposure at the Assab One gallery in Milan and the Circolo di Bellano space and collaborates with the Giovanni Falcone Foundation in Palermo for the project Spazi Capaci – Comunità Capaci, curated by Alessandro De Lisi with a monumental intervention at the bunker hall of the Ucciardone prison.

Having always been passionate about handmade products, I entered the world of ceramics in 1987; there I discovered the possibility and pleasure of shaping a versatile material such as clay. The path became more and more fascinating, leading to the desire to be able to bake and coat the raw pieces with ‘clothes’ suitable to their different shapes. The meeting with master Daniel de Montmollin has been of great importance; I learnt from him not only the technique and movements of turning, but also the method of calculating and making glazes with raw materials obtained from the area where I live, among others. In 1990, together with my husband, who is as passionate about research as I am, I set up a ceramics atelier in Colico, where we create unique stoneware and porcelain pieces, modelled by hand on the potter’s wheel and coated with glazes that are the result of meticulous analysis and experimentation linked to nature as a source of inspiration. At the same time, under the guidance of master D.de Montmollin, I undertook a pedagogical training through the use of slip: a pedagogical “situation” where the participant is accompanied towards personal awareness and development, to the discovery of the potential of the hand in the freedom of the creative gesture.

Over the course of her 30 years’ global experience , Patrizia has helped individuals and organizations to transform projects and dreams into tangible results through Coaching, classroom teaching and her job as a strategic executive. Her extraordinary ability to identify and enhance one’s talents and unique skills has allowed her to help people define their direction and discover their innate motivation and vision. With an international background in Management, Negotiation, Coaching, Talent Development, NLP, leadership, Diversity Management, today Patrizia is Chief People and Organization Officer for the Gefran Group, an Italian multinational organisation listed on Milan stock exchange on the STAR segment. She developed her experience in the following areas: Performing Arts (Teatro Tascabile in Bergamo, Performing Arts Academy) ; large scale distribution; fashion ( International Staff at OTB group); Technology and Sport. She collaborates with Tony Robbins and Prima Group at a global level as a mentor and trainer. She is a member of Scientific Committees of renowned  Business Schools and UniversitiesShe stands out for her innovative multicultural spirit and ability to reach objectives through the growth of human value. 

Born in Tangier (Morocco), deaf since birth, he began studying music at the age of 20 and attended jazz drum classes with Kenny Clarke, classical music with Raymond Chazal and Silvio Gualda and Afro-Cuban music with Miguel Fiannaca. Graduated in Musicology from the Paris-VIII University and graduate of the “Acanthes” International Percussion Center, he is also holder of the first Paris Inter-Conservatory Percussion Prize. In the years 1974-1976 he created mime and percussion shows with the famous mime Joël Chalude. From 1985 to 1987, he taught at the National School of Circus Arts in Châlon-sur-Marnes. In 1987 he created a music and percussion atelier for the deaf and hard of hearing at the Suresnes Conservatory (France) where he still teaches. He is professor of percussion at the “Schola Cantorum” in Paris and at the Viry-Chatillon Conservatory. Since 2015 he has been playing in a jazz quintet in Paris. Speaker on the topics “music and deafness” and “being deaf and musicians?” Christian Guyot is currently the only deaf artist in the world to perform as a musician and teach percussion in a public conservatory. 

His activity has taken him to Italy as well as abroad, to various European countries and to Israel, the USA and Taiwan, playing with Boris Petrushansky, Mischa Maisky, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Bruno Canino, Julian Rachlin, Itamar Golan, Pavel Vernikov, Moni Ovadia, Francesco Senese, Andrea Rebaudengo, Davide Cabassi, Ingrid Fliter, collaborating with Quartetto di Virtuosi di Mosca, Giovane Quartetto Italiano, Escher Quartet, ContemporartEnsemble, Quartetto di S. Petersburg, NefEsh Trio, Piccola Sinfonica di Milano, Moscow Chamber Orchestra. He has taken part in numerous festivals such as “Festival Dei Due Mondi,” “Musica sul Acqua,” Aspen Festival, “Amiata Piano Festival,” “Portogruaro Festival,” Klezmer Festival in Safed, “Mittelfest Festival,” “Sounds of the Dolomites.” As first clarinet he has collaborated with Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Orchestra da Camera di Padova e Veneto and i Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano. He currently teaches clarinet at the Conservatories of Trento and Cremona, and chamber music at the Academy of Imola. Several composers have dedicated him their music. His passion for live electronics led him to expand the instrument’s capabilities and explore the world of composition. Born in Moscow, he graduated from the Conservatory “G.B.Martini” in Bologna with Italo Capicchioni and graduated with honorable mention from the Higher Conservatory “P.I.Tchaikovsky” under Lev Mikhailov and Vladimir Sokolov. He participated in courses taught by Antony Pay, Fabrizio Meloni, Sabine and Wolfgang Meyer and Eddie Daniels. Dressler has recorded for “Atopos” the “Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps” de Messiaen, Prokofiev’s “Overture on Jewish Themes” for “Russian Seasons”; Russian music for clarinet and piano for the Japanese label “Cryston” with Boris Petrushansky; a CD with elements of improvisation with Andrea Rebaudengo “Duo al Opera” and participated in the recording dedicated to Leonid Desyatnikov “The Leaden Echo” for Quartz, UK. An album “livemovement” entirely dedicated to his music for clarinet and live electronics was released for the eponymous label.

Benedetta Senese obtained her Second Level Academic Diploma with full marks and honors at the Conservatorio “S. Pietro a Majella” in Naples under the guidance of Laura De Fusco, then she perfected her studies with Nora Doallo at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. In 2014, she received a Master’s degree in Music Pedagogy in the class of Maestro Sandro D’Onofrio, with a thesis regarding the link between gestures and expressiveness in piano teaching. She played for the season “900 e presente” created by Maestro Giorgio Bernasconi at the Auditorium of the Radio della Svizzera Italiana, under the direction of A. Tamayo. In 2011 she collaborated with the Kaleido Ensemble under the direction of D. Matheuz. In 2019 she plays with MACH Ensemble, a group that is part of MACH Project and Orchestra at the Festival Musica sull’Acqua in Colico. She has collaborated with musicians such as: Gennaro Cardaropoli, Cristophe Morin, Simone Briatore, Patrizio Serino, Ingrid Fliter, Anton Dressler, Francesco Senese, Danusha Waskiewicz, Itamar Golan, David Salleras and Roberto Armocida with whom she performed at the 2018 Mantua Chamber Music Festival. She is an NLP Coach certified by Claudio Belotti’s Extraordinary Coaching School and Richard Bandler’s “Society of NLP,” and she holds seminars and supports musicians as a Mental Trainer and Talent Coach.

at the invitation of Claudio Abbado, he played under the direction of Diego Matheuz with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra and performed as a soloist with the Human Rights Orchestra conducted by Alessio Allegrini and the Cameristi della Scala. He has performed as soloist with the Mozart Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado together with musicians such as Isabelle Faust, Raphael Christ, Danusha Waskiewicz and Alois Posh. In chamber music he has collaborated with musicians such as Mario Brunello, Julian Rachlin, Isabelle Faust, Clemens Hagen, Andrea Lucchesini, Magnus Lindgren, Boris Petrushiansky, Ingrid Fliter, Enrico Pace, Itamar Golan, Alessio Allegrini, Alina Pogotskina and Louis Lortie. He is a frequent guest of Mahler Chamber Orchestra and, as a first part, of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerishen Rundfunks, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxenbourg, Bochumer Symphoniker and SWR Symphonieorchester. In Colico, his native town on Lake Como, almost twenty years he conceived and has since then lead the artistic direction of the Festival “Musica sull’Acqua” , from which in 2018 the MACH Project and Orchestra advanced musical training course was born. Together with Simone Briatore and Patrizio Serino he has been sharing for over fifteen years a deep musical partnership that has led to the deepening of the repertoire for string trio and to important chamber music experiences such as Kaleido Ensemble and Quartetto Matamoe. He has held Master Classes in Caracas and Barquisimeto for the System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela. His passion for sharing and meeting with the younger generations lead him to collaborate regularly with various training and social action projects through music such as SONG Sistema in Lombardia, Musica Insieme a Librino – Catania and El Sistema Europe. In March 2023 he was invited as Guest Professor and Tutor at the Seiji Ozawa Academy Japan. In 2018 he recorded for Amadeus the work for violin and piano by Gabriel Fauré together with pianist André Gallo with whom he deepens the chamber repertoire for duo. Since January 2019 he has been teaching violin at the “V.Bellini” Conservatory in Catania.

Gabriele Carcano is among the most accomplished Italian pianists of his generation, winner of numerous awards, and has an international career ranging from recital, to concerts with orchestra, to chamber music. After winning the Casella Prize in 2004 at the “Premio Venezia” Competition and making his debut at Teatro La Fenice and Regio di Torino. His career has since taken him to perform in halls and seasons such as Zurich’s Tonhalle, Paris’ Salle Pleyel, Munich’s Herkulessaal, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Jerusalem Theatre, Milan’s Società del Quartetto, Lugano Musica, International Piano Festival at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, Carnegie Hall in New York, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro la Pergola – Amici della Musica in Florence, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, or for Festival Radio France – Montpellier, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Festival Pao Casals, Fundacion Scherzo in Madrid, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Rheingau Festival, Stresa Festival, etc. In January 2010, he was proclaimed the winner of the Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship, a prestigious award that placed him among the best young talents on the international music scene, earning an immediate invitation from Mitsuko Uchida to the Marlboro Festival, to which he then participated for four editions. He then participated in Musicians from Marlboro tours in cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Toronto, and Montreal.  Gabriele Carcano has played with orchestras such as Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Staatskapelle Weimar, Orchestra Verdi, Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Petruzzelli di Bari, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, collaborating with conductors such as Ton Koopman, Lawrence Foster, Alain Altinoglu, Stephan Solyom, Ion Marin, Claus Peter Flor, Clemens Schuldt, Federico Maria Sardelli, Maxim Emylianichev. An excellent chamber musician, he works regularly with Carolin Widmann, Lorenza Borrani, Stephen Waarts, Enrico Dindo, Enrico Bronzi, Marie- Elisabeth Hecker, Quartetto Hermes, Viviane Hagner, etc. His first album, entirely devoted to early works by Brahms, appeared in summer 2016 on the Oehms Classics label, followed by two more in 2018 for Rubicon Classics: as a soloist with music by Schumann and as a duo with Stephen Waarts. His publications have received rave reviews on Fonoforum, Sunday Telegraph, the Independent, Amadeus, BBC Radio 3 and twice the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato magazine.  Between 2020 and 2022 Gabriele Carcano performed the complete Beethoven Sonatas at the Fidelio Orchestra in London, combining in-depth work on the German composer with his focus on new ways and places to play and meet audiences. In addition to his return to Japan and concerts with orchestras such as the Carlo Felice in Genoa this season, Gabriele Carcano will present an Africa-inspired program in a series of concerts, which will be presented at the Amici della Musica in Florence, Musica Insieme Bologna and Lugano Musica, among others.  Born in Turin, he began studying piano at the age of 7 and graduated with honors at the age of 17 from the G. Verdi Conservatory in his city, then continued his studies under Andrea Lucchesini at the Pinerolo Academy of Music and Aldo Ciccolini. Since 2006, thanks to the support of the De Sono Association, the CRT Foundation and the Banques Populaires – Natexis prize, he settled first in Paris, where he attended Nicholas Angelich’s courses at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, also perfecting with Marie Françoise Bucquet. He also receives advice from such pianists as Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, and Alfred Brendel.  Since fall 2015 he has been teaching at the Pinerolo Academy of Music. Gabriele Carcano is a Steinway artist.

After studying with Nam-Yun Kim at the Korea National University of Arts in her native Seoul, where she took her bachelor’s degree, she earned a master’s degree in performance with Miriam Fried at New England Conservatory. She then moved in 2010 to Germany, where she perfected her playing under Ana Chumachenco. Among her many awards and distinctions are a first prize and the audience and chamber music prizes at the Leopold Mozart Violin Competition in Augsburg (2009) and the third prize and chamber music prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Petersburg (2011). In 2013 she became the youngest concertmistress in the history of the Augsburg Philharmonic, and since 2014 she has headed the second violins in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She is currently the concertmaster of second violin at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She is also a professor at the Korea National University of Arts.

Jens Peter Maintz enjoys an outstanding reputation as a versatile soloist, highly sought-after chamber musician, and committed cello teacher. Originally from Hamburg, he studied with David Geringas and took part in masterclasses with other great cellists such as Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenschikow, Frans Helmerson and Siegfried Palm. He was further influenced by his intensive chamber music study with Uwe-Martin Haiberg and Walter Levin. In 1994 he won first prize in the ARD international Music Competition, which had previously not been awarded to a cellist for 17 years.

He gathered several years of valuable orchestral experience as principal cello of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, and travelled the world as a member of the renowned Trio Fontenay. Since 2006 Jens Peter Maintz has been principal cello of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, on the invitation of Claudio Abbado. His solo career has brought him into contact with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski, Dmitry Kitajenko, Franz Welser-Möst, Reinhard Goebel and Bobby McFerrin. He has appeared as a soloist with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Den Haag Residenzorchester and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Alongside classical repertoire, Jens Peter Maintz has performed numerous works by contemporary composers from Isang Yun to Georg Friedrich Haas.

Since 2004 he has been professor at Berlin University of the Arts, where he teaches an exceptionally successful cello class. Many of his students are prize winners in important international competitions and some hold leading positions in major orchestras. Jens Peter Maintz is in equally great demand as a chamber musician. He is a member of the prestigious ‘Spectrum Concerts Berlin’ concert series, and performs with chamber music partners such as Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn, Torleif Thedéen, Hélène Grimaud, Kolja Blacher, Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit, and also the Artemis, Carmina and Auryn Quartets.
It is now 25 years since he formed the cello duo ‘Cello Duello’ with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. Together they perform at the world’s most eminent festivals, such as the Kronberg Festival, the Cello Biennale Amsterdam and the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival.

For his Sony Classical CD of solo works by Bach, Dutilleux and Kodaly, Jens Peter Maintz was presented with an ECHO-Klassik award. His highly acclaimed recording of Haydn’s cello concertos with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen was released on the Berlin Classics label. Since 2017 he is also professor at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. During the season 22/23 Jens Peter Maintz can be heard as soloist with the Orchestre de Berlin in the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. He will be on tour playing chamber music with Emmanuel Pahud in Switzerland to celebrate the 100th birthday of Auréle Nicolét and will appear at festivals in Lucerne, Santander, Ljubljana and Colico. Jens Peter Maintz plays the ‘Ex-Servais’ cello made by Giovanni Grancino in 1697.

He begins playing double bass with El Sistema Nacional de Orquestas de Venezuela in 2006 under the guidance of Marcos Calzadilla. In 2010 he enters the Conservatorio de Música Simón Bolívar in Caracas where he studies  with Nestor Blanco and Jose Lopez. In the same year he wins the competition and joins the Orchestra Teresa Carreño de Venezuela, with which he makes several tours performing in Bonn, Stockholm, Munich, Lisbon, Istanbul, Vienna (Konzerthaus), Berlin (Philharmonie), Madrid, London, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), in Liechtenstein, in Hamburg, Toulouse, Stavanger, under the baton of conductors of the caliber of Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Rattle, Diego Matheuz and Christian Vásquez. With the same orchestra he plays as part of major festivals, including the Salzburger Festspiele and Beethovenfest Bonn. In 2014, in order to continue his studies and further refine his skills as a musician, he moves to Lugano to study with Enrico Fagone at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana. Since then he has collaborated with several orchestras including: Orchestra della Suisse Romande, Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Orchestra Leonore, Spira Mirabilis, Sinfonia Engiadina, Colibrì Ensemble… He also participates in masterclasses with Klaus Stoll, Stefano Sciascia, Christine Hook, Diego Zecharies, Dariusz Mizera, Vanni Moretto, Korneel Le Compte, Matthew McDonald, Bret Simmer, Tim Cobb, Nabil Shehata.

In May 2018, he wins the competition as Substitute First Double Bass at the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. He has performed as a chamber musician with musicians such as: Martha Argerich, Sol Gabetta, Louis Lortie… And he played as a soloist accompanied by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in a series of concerts in Switzerland. In 2019 he was awarded the “Carlo Capriata” international prize in Italy. In September 2020 he wins  the competition as First Contrabass Soloist at the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, a role he still holds. From a very young age he has been combining his concert activity with teaching and in recent years he has been an assistant in Maestro Enrico Fagone’s double bass class at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana.

Magnus Lindgren (born Västerås. Sweden,1974) first made his mark as a persuasive, dynamic and charismatic soloist on saxophones, flute and clarinet; he is still possibly the pre-eminent jazz flautist in Europe. He combines this prowess with a vivid musical imagination and immense self-discipline, strengths which have led to an increasing recognition  in recent years of his unique, stellar talent as arranger/composer. Lindgren is currently Artist in Residence with the SWR Big Band in Stuttgart, and also with the Bielefelder Philarmoniker. In these roles he takes responsibility for the delivery of major projects, and also pro-actively influences the core sound and expands the musical horizons of these ensembles. The album which he co-wrote and arranged with John Beasley for the SWR Big Band, “Bird Lives”, (ACT) was nominated for two Grammys and won one. As one critic wrote recently of a concert by the SWR Big Band in Kaiserslautern: “The multi-award-winning Lindgren succeeded in everything he touched. His arrangements were marvels, bringing sparkling surprises, full of contrasts and unexpected twists and turns. With a complete awareness of the big band tradition, he was nonetheless opening up new worlds: harmonically, melodically and technically.”

Magnus has collaborated with artists including Herbie Hancock, Gregory Porter, James Ingram, Bobby McFerrin, David Foster, Take 6, Larry Carlton, Ivan Lins (Brazil), Till Brönner (Germany), Nicola Conte (Italy), Marie Fredriksson (Roxette, Sweden), Barbara Hendricks, Martin Fröst (Sweden), Ola Onabule (UK), John Beasley, John Patitucci, Ed Motta (Brazil), Youn Sun Nah (South Korea), Malena Ernman (Sweden), John Scofield, Chiara Civello (Italy)

Magnus has worked, as soloist, conductor, arranger and composer, with a number of prominent orchestras, including:

• SWR Big Band 
• HR Big Band, 
• WDR Big Band Bohuslän Big Band, 
• Blue House Jazz Orchestra , 
• Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
• Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestra, 
• Bielefeld Symphony Orchestra,
• Norrbotten Big Band,
• Malmö Opera Ochestra,
• Västerås Sinfonietta,
• Swedish chamber orchestra

Born in Varese on September 13th 1999, he graduated in 2022 in harpsichord and historical keyboards at the ‘G. Verdi’ Conservatory in Como, under the guidance of Maestro Giovanni Togni, with a final mark of 110/110. During his studies at the Como Conservatory, he is enrolled as principal harpsichord accompanist at the Institute and, again, at the Verdi Conservatory in Como, he is harpsichordist of the institute’s baroque orchestra conducted by Maestro Enrico Casazza.

In 2021, he won the bid for the National Baroque Orchestra of Italian Conservatories, with which he will perform on important stages such as EXPO 2022 in Dubai and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, under the direction of internationally renowned conductors. In 2022 he was engaged as harpsichord accompanist during the Urbino Musica Antica courses in the classes of Maestro Han Tol and Maestro Ryo Terakado. He has participated in masterclasses and courses with masters such as Francesco Corti and Christophe Rousset. He is currently a student of Maestro Carole Cerasi at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Graduated from the Conservatory of Brescia, he later specialized with Franco Rossi,  famous cellist of the Quartetto Italiano. After collaborating for ten years with the contemporary music ensemble “Il Gruppo Musica insieme di Cremona” he devoted himself to the study of baroque cello and in 1985 founded with G.Antonini, L. Ghielmi, and L. Pianca the baroque music group “Il Giardino Armonico” with which he carries out a very intense concert activity in theaters and concert halls all over the world , such as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tonhalle in Zurich, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Theater in Moscow,Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Library of Congress in Washington, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, etc. Since 1980 he has been playing with his pianist wife in the ensemble ” La Gaia Scienza” with which he has specialized in the performance of classical-romantic music on original instruments. The singularity of the new interpretation of this repertoire has attracted the interest of the  record producer Stefan Winter for whom “La Gaia Scienza” has recorded works by Haydn ,Brahms, Schumann and the complete trios of Schubert. His interpretation of Bach’s Suites, also recorded for Winter, has received unanimous acclaim in the press all over the world. Paolo Beschi has been invited repeatedly to Weimar, for the Bach Biennale Festival. He has played with baroque music groups such as: I Barocchisti, La Tempesta, L’Orchestra Barocca, Divino Sospiro, Accademia dell’Annunciata, etc. In 2021, he was invited to hold a Workshop on the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Period Music by the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra and recently held a Chamber Music Masterclass with members of the Theresia Orchestra, a group working on classical repertoire with original instruments. He has taught for more than 40 years at the Conservatory of Brescia and Como, boosting in hundreds of youngsters a passion for quartet and chamber music.

Born in Barcelona, he began his musical studies at the Choir of Montserrat , with which is a soloist . He later entered the Conservatory of his hometown, continuing his studies with Ferrán Sala and getting the highest ratings.

He furthered his studies at the Vienna Hochschule with LUDWIG STREICHER and took courses with FRANCO PETRACCI , RODNEY Slatford and KLAUS STOLL .

He is awarded in the Young Performers Competition of the Ministry of Culture.

He is selected in the GENEVA INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, performing in the Great Hall of the Conservatory of the city.

He is also awarded at the International Nicanor Zabaleta of BIG VIRTUOSOS, held in San Sebastian.

Toni Garcia Araque , professionally, is part of the ORCHESTRA Gran Teatre del Liceu and then obtained the Bass Soloist seat of the NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF SPAIN, which he still holds.

He also has performed as a soloist with numerous formations , including SOLISTES CATALAN , SPAIN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA , SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BILBAO , SPAIN NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA , NATIONAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ANDORRA , etc. .

He has developed multi chamber music groups, among which the following should be mentioned: FINE ARTS QUARTET , CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA BARCELONA, ANTICS ESCOLANS , MADRID CLASSIC ORCHESTRA , CHAMBER ORCHESTRA QUEEN SOFIA, Cassadó QUARTET , CAMERA XXI , QUARTET ENESCO , QUARTET Arditi with pianists Katia and Maria Labèque …

Also highlight its many recordings as a soloist for RNE and RTVE.

His teaching has developed in parallel to his concerts, with courses in all Spanish geography and South America, in France ( Capbreton ), Lin ondon ( Guildhall Scholl ) , in Poland ( Wroclaw Masters Course ) , at the Hochschle of Saarbrucken , at the Conservatory of Paris …

It is regularly invited to take part in contests with Bass International Juries .

Professor at the Conservatory of Madrid, in numerous meetings of the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid, National Youth Orchestra of Spain , Basque Country Youth Orchestra , Youth Orchestra of Catalonia , Murcia Youth Orchestra , Youth Orchestra of the Mediterranean ( France) …

He teaches by opposition FACULTY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS on leave and teaches at the SCHOOL OF MUSIC QUEEN SOFIA since its founding , with the headline LUDWIG STREICHER , then with Zepperitz RAINER , and now with Duncan McTier.

He obtained his violin diploma with Christine Anderson, the viola one with Davide Zaltron and the composition one with Giorgio Colombo Taccani.

He distinguished himself in various Italian contests and he attended advanced courses with Pavel Vernikov and Vadim Brodsky, Christoph Schiller, Bruno Giuranna, Wolfram Christ. He also participated to Tabea Zimmermann’s masterclass at the Centre de musique Hindemith” in Blonay (Svizzera) e at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festivalin  Lubecca.

With Rai Symphonic Orchestra, he played Schnittke concert directed by Master Jansug Kakhidze , the Don Quixote by Richard Strauss and Harold en Italie by Hector Berlioz.

In 2015, together with violinist Roberto Gonzalez, he performed Mozart Symphony Concertante with the Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy, under the direction of Master Christoph Eschenbach.

Since 2010 he is a regular guest of Portogruaro’s advanced courses, as a viola tutor.

From 1998 to 2009 he has been Prima Viola with Rai National Symphonic Orchestra, and since 2009 he is Prima Viola with the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.

He was born in Barcelona, Venezuela, in 1983. In 1993 he began his studies for “El Sistema”. In 2001 he joined the cello’ s Latin American Academy. He graduated in 2012 from “UNEATRE” as Licentiate of Mmusic Performance. He received cello lessons with masters such has Yo-Yo Ma, Alisa Weilerstein, Natalia Gutman, Aldo Parisot, Phillipe Müller, Carlos Prieto, Arto Noras, Phillipe Tribeau, Francesco Strano, Mario Brunello, Jan Diesselhort and  master classes  of chamber music with Günter Pichler, José Antonio Abreu, Donald Weilerstein, Andras Keller, Levon Chilingirian. As a cellist of the Simon Bolivar String Quartet, he recorded with Deutsche Grammophon in 2013. He performed in halls such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall,  Philarmonie in Berlin, Wigmore Hall, Musikverein, Lincoln Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Palau de la música of Reina Sofía, Performing Arts in Seoul, Köln Rundfunk, Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall.

He has been principal guest conductor of the Mozart Orchestra since 2009, and of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2013. He has been conductor of the Sinfonica Simon Bolivar de Venezuela since 2013, and he was principal conductor of the Teatro la Fenice from 2011 to 2014.

Born in Barquisimeto (Venezuela) in 1984 , he studied violin and orchestra conduction in the Venezuelan Stystem. Since then, he has conducted some of the major Italian orchestras (Santa Cecilia, Rai di Torino, Maggio Fiorentino, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Verdi) and around the world (Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Philharmoniker Hamburg, Česká filharmonie, Radio France, Wiener Kammerorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Philharmonia Zürich, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Saito Kinen, NHK).

In December 2019 he directed and recorded with Deutsche Grammophon the 120th anniversary of the Gala Concert in Japan with Anne-Sophie Mutter and master Seiji Ozaw