Caterina Cioli

Born in Empoli in 1978, Cioli started violin at six years old. At the age of 14, she began to study the viola at the conservatory of music L.

Cherubini in Florence under Augusto Vismara, and graduated with honours in July 1999.
She specialized in chamber music under Bruno Canino and the viola under Thomas Riebe at Mozarteum in Salzburg (1999) and under J. Bashmet at the Chigiana Academy of Siena for two years, 1999 and 2000, on scholarship. From 2004 to 2007 she studied with Bruno Giuranna at Stauffer School in Cremona and at the Chigiana Academy of Siena and for one year with Hatto Bayerle at the music school of Fiesole.
In 1995 she took part in the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana at the music school of Fiesole for two years, attending the orchestra and chamber music courses. In August 1999 she won the first prize with special honour in the viola competition in Vittorio Veneto. In 2002 she won the competition Del Vecchio reserved for the best graduates of the conservatory of music L. Cherubini of Florence.
She played for the Teatro Comunale of Florence and she received the first classification at the end of the lyric/symphonic instrumental training course Mimesis MaggiArte at the Teatro Comunale of Florence, under the supervision of Zubin Mehta.
From February 2001 to January 2003 she was a member of the "Quartetto Foné" which performed intensively in the most important music institutions and theatres, in Italy and abroad.
She collaborated with other chamber music ensembles like Contempoartensemble and Ensemble Cherubini, which toured the United States. In 2008 – 2009 she was violin teacher at the music school Mabellini of Pistoia. In 2011 she graduated also in violin at the conservatory of music L. Refice of Frosinone. In 2007 she won the competition for viola section in the Orchestra Regionale Toscana where she currently plays.