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[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator style=”shadow” el_width=”80″ css=”.vc_custom_1669651771314{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]\u201cThe deep, plush sound of Simone Gramaglia\u2019s viola and his ardent playing constantly impressed\u201d
\nConcertClassics NY \u2013 Lincoln Center concert review<\/p>\n
\u201cGramaglia is clearly the star, and his playing is hard to fault \u2013 intonation as well as interpretation.
\nViolists will want this one[..]\u201d<\/p>\n
American Record Guide, July\/August 2015<\/p>\n
\u201cExcellent performances by violist Simone Gramaglia, a seasoned soloist and violist of the famous
\nQuartetto di Cremona[..]\u201d<\/p>\n
Prestoclassical UK.<\/p>\n
A versatile instrumentalist and an intellectually curious artist, Simone Gramaglia is considered one of the finest violists of his generation. He combines his passion for music, philosophy and literature with an intense activity as a musician (both in chamber music and as a soloist), as a teacher and as an artistic director.<\/p>\n
His teachers were\u00a0L. Brusini, M. Kugel, B. Giuranna. His studies with\u00a0Piero Farulli\u00a0and\u00a0H. Beyerle\u00a0were fundamental to his education in the art of chamber music.<\/p>\n
He began studying the viola at the age of 16, after having previously studied the piano and the recorder. He earned his diploma six years later, and immediately embarked on an international concert career.<\/p>\n
As a founder member of the Quartetto di Cremona, founded in 2000, Gramaglia is passionately dedicated to chamber music and collaborates with numerous artists including Antonio Meneses, Lawrence Dutton, Miguel da Silva, Jamie Walton, Eckart Runge, Kyril Zlotnikov, Till Fellner, David Shifrin, the Pavel Haas String Quartet and the Emerson String Quartet, and performs in the most prestigious concert halls and festivals in the world (among others, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Santa Cecilia, NCPA Beijing, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires).
\nSince 2012 he has performed in a duo with guitarist\u00a0Luigi Attademo, with whom he recorded an album dedicated to the works of Niccol\u00f2 Paganini, which was very well received by critics.
\nIt included Gramaglia\u2019s own transcriptions of the six Op. 2 sonatas, the famous\u00a0Sonata Concertata\u00a0and the original version of the\u00a0Sonata per la Gran Viola,\u00a0which he has also performed with orchestras. Last September 2024 a recording for viola and guitar all dedicated to Franz Schubert \u2013 \u201cSongs Without Words\u201d \u2013 has been released for\u00a0DaVinci Publishing. The album has been nominated for the 2025 ICMA AWARDS.<\/p>\n
His chamber and solo repertoire ranges from Bach to nowadays. He has recorded for the Decca, Audite (Echo Prize 2017, ICMA 2018) Brilliant and now Da Vinci Publishing, both as a soloist and with the Quartetto di Cremona. His performances are regularly broadcast on major radio stations around the world (ABC, BBC, Rai Radio 3, Deutschland Radio, WQXR New York.)<\/p>\n
Since 2011 Simone is a member of the String Quartet faculty at the Accademia Walter Stauffer in Cremona. He is regularly invited to give viola and chamber music masterclasses across the globe (NSKA Netherlands, Zeister Muziekdagen Festival, Music with Masters, Royal College of Music in London just to mention a few). In addition to his teaching activities, he is intensely dedicated to supporting young musicians, in particular young string quartets, string trios and piano quartet and trios, through the international initiative and network of \u201cLe Dimore del Quartetto.\u201d He serves as artistic director of the project and has selected over ninety young ensembles from all over the world as participants.
\nHe is the artistic director of the\u00a0Filippo Nicosia International Chamber Music Award and Masterclass\u00a0opened to string quartets and piano trios.
\nHe is regularly invited to sit on the juries of international string quartet and chamber music competitions (including the Premio Paolo Borciani, the Concorso Gianni Bergamo, Premio Trio di Trieste).
\nHe has also served as a member of the viola faculty (Niccol\u00f2 Paganini Conservatory of Music in Genova) and chamber music faculties at the in\u00a0Peri Conservatory of\u00a0Music\u00a0in\u00a0Reggio Emilia, Conservatory \u201cN. Piccinni\u201d in Bari and Conservatory \u201cG. Donizetti\u201d in\u00a0Bergamo. From July 2024 he is principal professor for Chamber Music at the\u00a0Conservatory of Music \u201cN. Rota\u201d in\u00a0Monopoli.<\/p>\n
From August 2024 he plays on a wonderful Giovanni Paolo Maggini \u201cJoyce\u201d, Brescia 1600 ca. made available to him by the Fondazione Pro Canale (Milano). He as well plays a splendid and rare viola by G. Torazzi from circa 1680, generously made available to him by the Kulturfonds Peter Eckes (Germany). He was the first and only Italian violist to play the Stradivarius \u201cPaganini\u201d viola for a prolonged period, kindly loaned to him by the Nippon Music Foundation (Tokyo).
\nHe writes the column \u201cL\u2019Angolo del Quartetto\u201d (Quartet Corner) for\u00a0Archi\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Simone celebrated 25 years of playing with the Quartetto di Cremona with a world tour that will take him to perform throughout America, Europe, and Asia.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20846,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-19407","docente","type-docente","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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