Artist · Cello, viola da gamba
Perikli Pite
Biography
Perikli Pite is a cellist and viola da gamba player. He began his musical training at the artistic lyceum in Tirana, where he also studied composition, and continued at Tirana’s Academy of Fine Arts with H. Hoxha. After moving to Italy, he graduated with honours from the Conservatorio “G. Rossini” in Pesaro in 1998 and studied viola da gamba with Roberto Gini in Parma.
His further training included courses in Città di Castello, Saludecio, Venice and Milan. He received scholarships from the Fondazione Gioacchino Rossini, the Cecilia Ugolini Paci programme and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. In 2004, as cellist of Recitar Cantando, he shared the ensemble’s first prize at the “D. Caravita” early-music competition in Fusignano.
His work has included performances with opera institutions in Macerata, Parma, Sassari and Ancona, and collaborations with Europa Galante, La Calandria, Recitar Cantando and Jeanne Loriod. With Armonia delle Sfere he performs on cello and viola da gamba; on the Da Vinci Classics recording of Paisiello’s Flute Quartets, Op. 23, he plays cello.