Artist · Violin
Giuseppe Prencipe
Biography
Giuseppe Prencipe was an Italian violinist and teacher, born in Manfredonia in 1925. He studied with Mario Corti and Pina Carmirelli, and continued his training with Arrigo Serato and George Enescu at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.
He served as concertmaster of the RAI Alessandro Scarlatti Orchestra in Naples from 1948 to 1978 and subsequently of the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. His chamber-music activity included collaborations with Sergio Fiorentino and Henryk Szeryng. A long-serving teacher at Naples’s San Pietro a Majella Conservatory, he also worked at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, where he helped train the first violins of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana and taught concertmaster studies.