Alessio Bidoli

Alessio Bidoli (Milan 1986) started his violin studies at the age of seven.
In 2006 he graduated with honours from Milan's Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" under the guidance of Gigino Maestri.He improved his studies at the Haute Ecole de Musique au Conservatoire de Lausanne, Switzerland and Mozarteum Salzburg with Pierre Amoyal, at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena with Salvatore Accardo, and at the Imola International Academy with Pavel Berman and Oleksandr Semchuk.

He performed for the first time as soloist at Teatro Signorelli in Cortona, Tuscany, at the age of seventeen. In 2005, he was among the prize-winners at Rassegna Nazionale d’Archi in Vittorio Veneto In 2007 he collaborated with the Lausanne Camerata directed by Pierre Amoyal in various European cities including Martigny at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Milan at the Società dei Concerti and Marseilles during the Festival de Musique à Saint-Victor.
As a soloist he has performed in prestigious concert seasons, including: MITO Settembre Musica, Società del Quartetto and Società dei Concerti of Milano, Furcht-Bocconi University, Amici del Loggione del Teatro alla Scala, Fondazione Musica Insieme di Bologna, Amici della Musica di Sondalo, Arvedi Auditorium in Cremona, Bergamo Culture Festival.
He had a leading role with Vittorio Sgarbi at the Teatro di Chiasso, Switzerland, in the theatre project Il Fin la Maraviglia, a report about the Baroque age through images and sounds.
He has recorded a CD with the pianist Stefania Mormone for the magazine of classical music Amadeus and four CD albums as a duo with Bruno Canino. For Sony Classical have been recorded: Verdi Fantasias, a CD with fantasias by Camillo Sivori and Antonio Bazzini (recently reissued by Concerto Classics), and Italian Soul- Anima Italiana, a collection of works by Malipiero Petrassi and Alfredo Casella, most of which previously unrecorded. For Warner Classics has been recorded a CD with music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Poulenc, released in October 2018, consisting of the complete violin and piano works of Saint-Saëns, including a first recording of his youthful E flat major sonata (R103). In 2020, a new monographic CD containing the chamber repertoire of Nino Rota, again with Bruno Canino at the piano and Massimo Mercelli on the flute, was recorded for Decca.
He has appeared as a guest artist in radio broadcasts on Radio France, NDR Kultur, Radio Svizzera Italiana, RAI Radio 3, Radio Vaticana, Radio Classica, and Radio Popolare.
He taught for two years at the Conservatorio Niccolò Piccinni in Bari. He is currently a violin teacher at the Conservatorio Francesco Cilea in Reggio Calabria.
Alessio Bidoli plays one of the violins made by his grandfather, Dante Regazzoni, who was one of Lombardy most famous violin-makers of the twentieth century. He also plays a violin made by Stefano Scarampella in 1902.