Emmanuele Baldini

Emmanuele Baldini was born in Trieste, Italy, surrounded by music: his father, Lorenzo Baldini, is an important pianist and italian pedagogue.

After studies in his hometown with Bruno Polli, he furthered his violin training in Geneva with Corrado Romano, in Salzburg and Berlin with Ruggiero Ricci, and recently studied conducting with Isaac Karabtchevsky and Frank Shipway. From an early age, Baldini garnered prizes from countless international solo and chamber music competitions, including the “Premier Prix de Virtuosité avec distinction” in Geneva and the “Forum Junger Künstler” in Wien.
Baldini has performed as soloist or recitalist across the globe in all the major concert halls. His inexhaustible curiosity and passion for music has broadened his horizons, and after a commendable career as violinist (with more than 15 recordings to his name, nearly 40 different violin concertos and all of the major violin sonatas in his repertoire), he has embarked on new musical ventures as a conductor, he founded the OSESP Quartet, he has intensified his teaching activities. Baldini’s musical collaborations include internationally renowned artists, such as Maria-João Pires, Jean-Philippe Collard, Antonio Meneses, Caio Pagano, Ricardo Castro, Nicholas Angelich. Maestro Claudio Abbado wrote in a letter to London’s “Harold Holt”: “I am impressed by both his deep musicality and technical level.” He has been concertmaster of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro “Giuseppe Verdi” di Trieste, and since 2005 has been concertmaster of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP), Brazil.