Duo Carlo Dumont and Fabrizio Romano

Carlo Dumont and Fabrizio Romano
The violin and piano duo formed by Carlo Dumont and Fabrizio Romano in 2002 explores the possibilities of combining the rigor and timbric plasticity, peculiarities of the string quartet, with the freedom and executive agility typical of the piano, in a chamber collaboration stable which identifies as its natural executive trait, a romantic aesthetic ideal, understood as intense and intimate participation in the creative process.

After more than twenty years, the duo has numerous concerts to its credit and a repertoire that has not ceased to be enriched with sonatas by Schubert, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Franck, Dvorak, paying particular attention to the works of the Neapolitan school, pages rarely heard of composers such as Longo, Martucci, Cesi, Pilati, Cilea, Alfano. Over the years the duo has created several musical projects, including “Frei Aber Einsam”, the complete production for violin and piano by Schumann and Brahms, woven into a cycle of four concerts, and “Das musikalische Tagebuch”, the cycle of 10 Beethoven sonatas, in four appointments.
The violinist CARLO DUMONT, trained with Giulio Franzetti, Franco Gulli and Norbert Brainin, dedicated himself above all to chamber music, perfecting himself as a quartet player with the Amadeus Quartet (Royal Academy of Music in London) and the Alban Berg Quartet (Musikhocschule in Lübeck). Parallel to his teaching activity, he carries out concert activities, holding recitals for solo violin and in various chamber ensembles, including mainly the Gagliano String Quartet, an ensemble that has seen him play for the major associations, participating in international festivals and interpreting the most significant quartet repertoire. In the 2019/2020 season he presented the complete cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets with the Gagliano String Quartet, on the occasion of the composer's 250th anniversary. Since 2009 he has been invited to collaborate with the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in Brussels, of which he has become "artist ambassador", performing in the main European capitals. He plays a violin made in Brescia at the beginning of the 18th century.
The pianist FABRIZIO ROMANO trained with Sergio Fiorentino, Aldo Ciccolini and Viktor Merzhanov, also studying conducting and composition. He has performed for various musical associations in Italy and abroad, as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, recording radio and television broadcasts for RAI, France2, Canal +, Arté and for the Australian network SBS. Alongside his concert activity, he has worked intensely as a composer and orchestrator for numerous theatrical shows, collaborating with important directors and actors and writing the music for various RAI television programmes. He also oversaw the orchestration and staging of ballets performed, among others, at the San Carlo Theater in Naples and signed the soundtracks and orchestrations of some Neapolitan silent cinema films. He collaborates as a pianist and arranger with the Portuguese artist Misia, recording for Sony Classical, Warner Music and Galileo.