Artist · Violin
Letizia Gullino
Biography
Letizia Gullino, Violin
A 21-year-old violinist from Turin, has been described by Salvatore Accardo as “a violinist with a warm and powerful sound, brilliant technique, and a pure, captivating musicality.”
The 2025–26 season will mark her return to the Edinburgh International Festival and her debut with major institutions and concert seasons, including the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, De Sono Associazione per la Musica, Lingotto Musica, Paganini Genova Festival, and the Filarmonica Romana.
She graduated from the Conservatorio di Torino with top marks, honours, and special distinction, and is regularly invited to perform as a soloist and chamber musician across Italy and abroad. She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Stefan Jackiw, Giovanni Gnocchi, Marco Rizzi, Sterling Elliott, Salvatore Accardo, Jessica Bodner, the Leonore Piano Trio, Viktoria Mullova, and Matthew Barley.
At the age of seventeen, she took part in the celebratory concert held at the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona for Salvatore Accardo’s 80th birthday, performing both in chamber music and as a soloist with the Orchestra da Camera Italiana.
She has won numerous national and international competitions for both violin and chamber music, including the Marin International Violin Competition, the Premio Crescendo in Florence (where she was also awarded the “A. Tacchi” Prize for best violinist), the Premio delle Arti, and the Bando Guglielmo, promoted by Amici della Musica di Padova, Archivio Fano (Venice), Settimane Musicali di Vicenza, and CIDIM (Rome).
In 2024, she was the only Italian admitted to that year’s edition of the prestigious Valsesia International Competition – Violin and Orchestra section – where she was awarded Third Prize.
After studying with Anna Paraschiv, she continued her training under Daniele Gay, Salvatore Accardo, and Sergio Lamberto. She is currently completing her advanced studies with Silvia Marcovici at the Accademia Perosi in Biella.
She has held an Estemporanea scholarship since 2023 and has been a DeSono Foundation scholar since 2024.