Enrico Bronzi
A cellist and conductor, he was born in Parma in 1973. In 1990 he founded the Trio di Parma, with which he has performed in the most important concert halls in Europe, the USA, South America, and Australia (Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Cologne Philharmonie, Herkulessaal in Munich, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires). With this ensemble he achieved success in the international competitions of Florence, Melbourne, Lyon, and Munich, and also received the Abbiati Prize from the Italian music critics.
From 2001, following his achievements at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris and his victory at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki—where he also received the award for Best Performance of Dvořák’s Concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic—he began an intense solo career. He regularly participates in numerous festivals, including Lucerne, Kronberg, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Melbourne, Turku, Naantali, Stresa, Ravenna, and Lockenhaus.
His activity has led him to collaborate with major artists such as Martha Argerich, Alexander Lonquich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, Wolfram Christ, Joshua Bell, Stefan Milenkovich, and ensembles including the Hagen Quartet, Kremerata Baltica, and Il Giardino Armonico. He performs and has performed as a soloist under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Berglund, Frans Brüggen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tan Dun, and Reinhard Goebel.
He studied orchestral conducting with Jorma Panula and is a guest of numerous ensembles, including the Orchestra Mozart (by invitation of Claudio Abbado), Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Orchestra of Tuscany, the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice, the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, the Haydn Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, I Virtuosi Italiani, the Marchigiana Philharmonic, the Valle d’Aosta Symphony Orchestra, and the Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2007 he has been a professor at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Among his discographic recordings, in addition to the extensive production with the Trio di Parma (Decca), are the complete Boccherini concertos (Brilliant Classics), the concertos by C. P. E. Bach (Amadeus), a monographic album devoted to Nino Rota, the Sonatas by Geminiani (Concerto), and the complete Bach Suites (Fregoli Music), which reached second place in the iTunes Music Store top ten classical albums chart.
Enrico Bronzi plays a 1775 Vincenzo Panormo cello. He has been involved in musical promotion since 2007 as Artistic Director of the Portogruaro Festival, the Società dei Concerti di Trieste, and the Nei Suoni dei Luoghi Festival (Udine). He has organized concert series and festivals, placing at the center of his vision the dialogue between music and different forms of human thought, often through strong thematic concepts, and promoting events in the fields of chamber and symphonic music, ethnomusicology, jazz, early and contemporary music, musical outreach, the promotion of new talents, and initiatives aimed at very young audiences, also alongside leading figures from the cultural world and through a multidisciplinary approach.
Since 2018 he has been Artistic Director of the Perugia Musica Classica Foundation, where he is responsible for the programming of the Amici della Musica di Perugia and the Sagra Musicale Umbra, working in close collaboration with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra.