1112 Biografie Vittorio Ghielmi 1

Vittorio Ghielmi
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.
Winner of "Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco"
(Brescia 1995) and Erwin Bodky Award (Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 1997).
As soloist or conductor (with orchestras as London Philharmonia, Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra in Bowl Hall Hollywood-Graun concerto, Wiener Philharmoniker,
Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburger Baroque Orchestra etc.), in duo with Lorenzo Ghielmi
or Luca Pianca, he plays in the most important halls of Europe, USA, Japan (Musikverein
Wien, Berliner Philharmoniker Hall Berlin, Casals Hall, Tokio etc.). He has been invited
to play as soloist the world première of many “new music” composition (Kevin Volans,
Teatro Regio di Torino; Nadir Vassena, Berliner Philharmoniker Hall).
His ensemble Il Suonar Parlante, devoted to a new investigation of ancient repertoire,
plays also with important jazz players as Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine, Jim Black, Don
Byron, Markus Stockhausen or with pop singer like Vinicio Capossela. Several jazzists
and composers wrote new music for this ensemble.
Recorded several solo CD winning several critic prizes. His last production are for
Winter&Winter, München, Germany.
He is one of the rare gamba players who is normally demanded to play as solo performer
with orchestras, as well as with important jazz and rock players. In 2007 conceives and
conducts a big spectacle around Buxtehude's "Membra Jesu Nostri", with the american
film maker Marc Reshovsky, with the Swedish choir "Rilke ensemblen" (G.Eriksson).
He worked as Riccardo Muti assistant in Salzburg festival. In 2008 Uri Caine
composed and dedicated to him a concerto for viola da gamba and orchestra,
inaugurated in Amsterdam Konzertgebouw.
Titular professor in Conservatorio Luca Marenzio (Brescia) as well as in severals
master-classes and Universities. 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.
Plays on a gamba made by Michel Colichon, Paris 1688.