Artist · Saxophone
Lorenzo Ricchelli
Biography
Lorenzo Ricchelli has received seventeen distinctions in national and international solo competitions, auditions and scholarship selections. He has worked as an orchestral musician with the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Fondazione Arena di Verona, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, and the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana.
In 2014 he successfully auditioned for inclusion in the orchestra roster of the Teatro Sociale di Como–AsLiCo. He has performed Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto, Op. 109 with I Virtuosi Italiani, taught instrumental masterclasses and taken part in recording projects. He is a founding member of the Coritage Saxophone Quartet.
He obtained his saxophone diploma and a second-level academic diploma in instrumental performance, specialising in chamber and orchestral music, with top marks, honours and an honourable mention, under M. Giovannelli at the Giuseppe Nicolini Conservatory in Piacenza. From 2013 to 2015 he served as tutor to the conservatory’s saxophone class.
He has undertaken advanced studies in masterclasses with Eugene Rousseau, Daniel Gauthier, Levente Puskás and Lev Pupis. He also studied conducting with Denis Salvini and attended intensive courses with Dennis Louis Johnson and Manuel Mondejar Criado.