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GhielmiCompared by the critic to Jasha Heifetz and Pablo Casals (Diapason), Vittorio Ghielmi was born in Milano, Italy, still very young he attracts notice for the intensity and versatility of his musical interpretation and for his new approach to the viol and to the sound of ancient music repertoire. His studies on the field, about old musical traditions still living in forgotten place of the world brought to light new perspective in the interpretation of European “ancient music”.
Winner of Concorso Internazionale “Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco” (Brescia 1995) and Erwin Bodky Award (Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 1997).
As viol soloist or conductor (with orchestras as London Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Hollywood Bowl , Wiener Philharmoniker, Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburger Baroque Orchestra etc.), and in duo with the brother Lorenzo Ghielmi or with Luca Pianca, he plays in the most important halls of Europe, Usa, Japan (Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie Berlin, Casals Hall, Tokyo etc.). He has been invited to play as soloist the world premières of many “new music” composition (Kevin Volans, Teatro Regio di Torino; Nadir Vassena, Berliner Philharmoniker Hall). Played in duo and trio with artist as Gustav Leonhart, Christophe Coin, Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola, Cecilia Bartoli etc.
His ensemble Il Suonar Parlante, devoted to a new investigation of ancient repertoire, played also with important jazz players as Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine, Jim Black, Don Byron, Markus Stockhausen, Nguyen Lê, pop singer like Vinicio Capossela, flamenco star as Carmen Linares etc. Several jazzists and composers wrote new music for this ensemble. The ensemble collaborates as well with traditional Asian musicians as the Afghan virtuosos of “ensemble Kaboul” (Khaled Arman). Recorded several solo Cd winning critic prizes (Decca, Teldec, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi France, Accent, Cpo etc.). His last production are for Winter&Winter, München, Germany and Passacaille (Belgium).
He is one of the rare gamba players who is normally demanded to play as solo performer with orchestras. In 2007 conceives and conducts a big spectacle around Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri. He works as Riccardo Muti assistant in Salzburg Pfingstam festival. In 2008 Uri Caine composed and dedicated to him a Concerto for viola da gamba and orchestra, inaugurated in Amsterdam Koncertgebouw.
Titular professor in Conservatorio Luca Marenzio (Brescia) as well as in severals master-classes and Universities (Mozarteum Salzburg etc.). In the Politecnico della cultura, delle arti e delle lingue Milano, he organizes cycles of studies and concerts on the ancient instrumental techniques and their survival in ethnical musical traditions. He published studies on music and unpublished score and the complete edition of Graun’s Viola da Gamba Concertos, and direct the scientific musical research of Libroforte. Plays on a gamba made by Michel Colichon, Paris 1688.