Enrico Bronzi

| Italy

Cellist and conductor, Enrico Bronzi was born in Parma, in 1973. He have founded the Trio di Parma in 1990, with which have he played in the most important concert halls in the Europe, the USA, South America and Australia, among which – the Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Cologne Philharmonic, Munich Herkulessaal, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. With this formation, he won numerous international competitions in Florence, Melbourne, Lyon and Munich, also receiving the Abbiati Prize from Italian music critics.

Since 2001, following his success at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris and his victory at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, where he also received the prize for the best performance of the Dvořáko Concerto, he has begun an intense solo activity. He regularly participates in numerous festivals, including the Lucerna and Kronberg Festivals, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, also the Melbourne, Turku, Naantali, Stresa, Ravenna Festivals.

His activity has led him to collaborate with great artists, such as Martha Argerich, Alexander Lonquich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, Wolfram Christ, Joshua Bell, Stefan Milenkovich, and ensambles, such as the Hagen Quartet, the Kremerata Baltica and the Giardino Armonico. He has played as a soloist under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Berglund, Frans Brüggen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tan Dun, Reinhard Goebel. He followed Jorma Panula's conducting lessons and performs as a guest with numerous ensembles, including the Mozart Orchestra (with the invitation of Claudio Abbado), Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Orchestra della Toscana, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, Chamber Orchestra of Mantua, Haydn Orchestra, Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, Virtuosi Italiani, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Sinfonica della Val d'Aosta, Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra. Since 2007, he has become a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

Among his recordings, in addition to the vast production with the Trio di Parma (Decca), the cellist has recorded all the concerts by Boccherini (Brilliant Classics), the concerts by C. P. E. Bach (Amadeus), a monographic disc on Nino Rota, the Sonatas of Geminiani (Concerto) and the complete Suites of Bach (Fregoli Music), which was in second place in the top ten of classical music albums on the iTunes Music Store. Enrico Bronzi plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello from 1775. He has also been involved in musical promotion since 2007, being artistic director of the Portogruaro Festival, of the Società dei Concerti di Trieste and the Festival Nei Suoni dei Luoghi. It has organized cycles of concerts and festivals, placing the dialogue between music and different forms of human thought at the center of its conception, often through strong thematization, promoting events in the field of chamber and symphonic music, ethnomusicology, jazz, of early and contemporary music, organising musical dissemination, and promoting new talents. Since 2018, he has been the artistic director of the Perugia Musica Classica Foundation, for which he is responsible for the programme of the Friends of Music of Perugia and the Sagra Musicale Umbra, alongside the close collaboration with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra.