Artist · Violin
Giovanni Rota
Biography
Giovanni Rota is an Italian violinist specialising in historically informed Baroque performance. He studied violin and music education at the Nino Rota Conservatory in Monopoli, completed advanced studies in Baroque violin at Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, and studied with Enrico Gatti and Sigiswald Kuijken in Urbino and Pescara. He also completed a postgraduate course in solo performance at Bari’s Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory.
His solo and chamber performances have taken him across Italy, France, Belgium, Poland, Tunisia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Malta, Switzerland and Austria. He has worked with Antonio Florio, Stefano Montanari, Marcello Gatti, Gemma Bertagnolli, Sara Mingardo and Monica Schiavo, and with Cappella Neapolitana, Talenti Vulcanici, Le Musiche Nove, Santa Teresa de’ Maschi, La Confraternita de’ Musici, Labirinto Armonico, Terra d’Otranto, the Orchestra Barocca della Messapia and Cappella Musicale Corradiana.
He founded Hortensia Virtuosa, recording Marchitelli’s trio sonatas for Da Vinci Classics. His discography includes Arcana, Studio GLM, Elledici, Dad Records, Florestano, Baryton and Digressione Music. His professional activities also include directing the Apuliantiqua festival, founded in 2005, and teaching violin in Italian state secondary education.