FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS
ON SCENES ALL OVER THE WORLD
The I Virtuosi Italiani band was born in 1989
more than 30 years of artistic activity
A complex born in 1989
The I VIRTUOSI ITALIANI complex, born in 1989, celebrates 30 years of activity.
It is one of the most active and qualified groups on the international music scene, regularly invited to the most important theatres, festivals and seasons around the world. They are recognized for a particular aptitude in creating increasingly innovative projects, constant research in various languages, in addition to the excellent artistic quality demonstrated over years of activity.
in the most important theatres
New York, Paris, Vienna
There are numerous collaborations with soloists and conductors of international importance.
They collaborated on the staging of Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete with the New York City Ballet; in 2001 they performed all of Rossini's one-act operas for the Opera Comique in Paris and gave two concerts at the Konzerthaus in Vienna.
The Virtuosi Italiani have performed for the most important theaters and for the main Italian musical institutions such as the Teatro alla Scala, the Teatro La Fenice, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the GOG of Genoa, the Unione Musicale of Turin, the 'University Concert Institution of Rome, the Teatro alla Pergola of Florence, the Philharmonic Society of Rome, the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona, the Società del Quartetto of Milan and many others.
tours abroad and worldwide
Concerts also broadcast by Rai
Among the most important commitments we remember the Concert for the Senate of the Italian Republic and televised live by RAI 1, the "Concert for Life and Peace" performed in Rome, Bethlehem and Jerusalem and broadcast by RAI worldwide, the Concert at the Sala Nervi in the Vatican in the presence of the Pope.
There are also numerous tours abroad, with concerts in the most important halls in the world: France (Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, Festival Berlioz, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux), Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, England (London Royal Albert Hall), Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Slovenia (Ljubljana International Festival), Russia (St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Moscow Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Hall of the Philharmonic), Turkey, Iran, Korea, United States America (New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia), Baltic countries.
we hosted illustrious musicians
In the sign of the versatility and attention paid to a choice of repertoire aimed at involving an increasingly wider audience with particular attention to young people, the interest that the group has always shown in the border repertoire is also significant. Hence the birth of collaborations and projects with artists such as Franco Battiato, Goran Bregovic, Uri Caine, Chick Corea, Paolo Fresu, Ludovico Einaudi, Michael Nyman, Cesare Picco, Enrico Rava, Antonella Ruggiero, Gianluigi Trovesi, Richard Galliano and many others.
The concerts of I Virtuosi Italiani have always been crowned with enthusiastic acclaim from critics and the public. This is what Enrico Girardi writes in the “Corriere della Sera”: «The Virtuosi Italiani are an ensemble of absolute value. They tackle the baroque, the classic and the contemporary not only with ease, but with a determination, a polish and an "adrenaline" that produces life and tension without pushing beyond the limits of a wise stylistic relevance".
Since 2011 they have been the protagonists of a Concert Season, in the Church of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, the place where Antonio Vivaldi played, taught and gave birth to all his works throughout his life.
concerts and initiatives
in no particular order... just to get an idea of our repertoire
