Avos Project - Scuola Internazionale di Musica

Associazione Musicale e Culturale
"Avos Ensemble"
Viale Guglielmo Marconi 57 - 00146 Roma
C.F. 96432350583 - P. IVA: IT15772191001

Graduated  in Viola at the “G.Verdi” Conservatory of Milan with Emilio Poggioni. He later perfected in Cremona at the "W. Stauffer" Academy with Bruno Giuranna. Principal viola of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, he has collaborated with major conductors such as R.Muti, MWChung, D.Barenboim, D. Gatti, R.Chailly, D.Harding, C.Abbado, V.Gergiev, F. Luisi, K. Petrenko, playing in the most prestigious theaters around the world. From 1993 to 1999, winning the international competition for the position of viola tutti, he was part of the Orchestra of the Teatro Alla Scala.
He has played as a soloist with the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Filarmonica del Festival di Brescia and Bergamo, I Cameristi della Scala, I Moscow Soloists, the Hessisches Orchestra of Wiesbaden, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Krasnojarsk Chamber Orchestra, Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra. He has been regularly invited, as Principal viola guest in the orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala and Filarmonica, by the Music Directors: Ricardo Muti, Daniel Baremboim and Riccardo Chailly.

In 2009 Claudio Abbado invited him to play in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

There are numerous performances of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with soloists such as G.Carmignola, A.Milani, D.Schwarzberg, M.Rizzi.With the Rai Orchestra he performed the Bartók Viola Concerto conducted by G.Phelivanian, the concert by Hindemith "Der Schwanendreher" under the direction of J.Axelrod, "Harold en Italie" with the direction of A.Lazarev, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra with A.Milani and C.Arming and Robert Trevino.In 2013 he was invited to Sochi (Russia) for a concert with Yuri Bashmet and "The Moscow Soloists" for the presentation of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Recently he was invited to a series of concerts in Russia in Krasnoyarsk to perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Sergei Dogadin (First prize gold medalist Moscow Tchaikovsky competition 2019) with conductor the great soloist Victor Tretyakov.

Invited in the Symphonic Season 2019-2020 of the Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra, he performed Bruch's Romanza for viola and orchestra and with the violinist Marco Rizzi the Bruch Double Concerto conductor Alessio Allegrini.

There are many collaborations in chamber music with musicians such as:

Y.Bashmet, L.Hagen, M.Argerich, N.Znaider, M.Brunello, G.Sollima, E.Dindo, A.Meneses, V.Tretiakov, M.Rizzi. With Alessandro Milani and Pierpaolo Toso he re-founded the Nuovo Trio Italiano D'Archi, a name that came from the glorious and historic chamber ensemble of Franco Gulli, Bruno Giuranna and Giacinto Caramia. Lecturer in various music courses in Italy and abroad, he is a member of numerous competition juries. He conceived and founded the Garda Lake Music Festival www.gardalakemusicmaster.com which has been held in Italy on the shores of Lake Garda for 7 years, making use of the presence of the most important names in the international music scene: L.Hagen, V.Tretyakov, E .Dindo, A.Polo, A.Meneses, M.Rizzi, Sara Mingardo.

He conceived the "Winter Concert", an event that takes place every year in the province of Brescia, of which he holds the position of Artistic Director, and which over the years has had the participation of the most important musicians and orchestras in the world such as:

S.Gazzelloni, U. Ughi, S.Accardo, W. Christ, E.Dindo, M.Brunello, M.Maisky, R.Muti, C.M.Giulini, F. Luisi, Soloists Berliner Philharmoniker, Soloists Wiener Philharmoniker, I Soloisti della Scala, I Cameristi della Rai, Octett Berliner Philharmoniker.

In 2013 he founded with Piercarlo Orizio the Philharmonic of the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo. He is very active in contemporary music with the performance of world premieres and the performance of pieces dedicated to him.

This year at Avos: Ian Bostridge, Timothy Ridout, Beatrice Rana, Julius Drake, Alessandro Deljavan, Kerson Leong and many others!

Registration is open! Closing date: 15th September 2023

Luca Ranieri

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Registration is open! Closing date: 15th September 2023