The first Italian ever to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which launched him into a stunning international career, Mario Brunello has played with some of the most prestigious orchestras and has worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Seiji Ozawa, Daniele Gatti, Yuri Temirkanov, Ton Koopman and Claudio Abbado who, over the years, invited Brunello several times to play as a soloist and as a conductor.
Mario Brunello often takes on the dual roles of conductor and soloist, and in 1994 he founded the Orchestra d’Archi Italiana. In chamber music he collaborates with artists including Gidon Kremer, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Yuri Bashmet, Maurizio Pollini, Andrea Lucchesini and the Borodin and Alban Berg Quartets.
In his artistic life Brunello reserves ample time for projects involving diverse art forms (literature, philosophy, science, theatre) and he interacts with actors and musicians from other cultural influences. A large number of these activities take place in Antiruggine, a remodeled workshop that is ideal for these experiments. The diverse artistic genres that Brunello experiments are reflected in a wide ranging collection of recordings which include the Beethoven Triple Concerto conducted by Claudio Abbado and the Egea Records 5 Cds “Brunello Series”.
Mario Brunello is the Artistic Director of the “Artesella arte e natura” in Trentino and of the Reggio Emilia “Festival del Quartetto”. He is an Academic of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
He plays a precious Maggini cello from the 1600s.
He performed at Stresa Festival in 2002.