Rocco Rescigno

Rocco Rescigno
Rocco Rescigno, born in 1992 in Udine, Italy, first received instruction in piano and organ at the “Scuola di Musica di Passons” (Gruppo Folkloristico di Passons) in Passons (Udine), later adding trombone and saxophone.

From 2008 to 2011 he began his bachelor’s studies in trombone at the Conservatory in Udine with Domenico Lazzaroni, with additional training in alto trombone and euphonium. During this time, he was already accepted into the “Orchestra Nazionale dei Conservatori d’Italia” and the “Central European Initiative Youth Orchestra”.
After his studies in Udine, Rocco Rescigno moved in 2011 to the trombone class of Prof. Stefan Schulz, Andreas Klein, and Rainer Vogt at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2014 he was awarded scholarships from the Rotary Club of Perg and from the DAAD. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 2015, receiving a distinction from the University of the Arts, before beginning his master’s and Konzertexamen studies.
That same year, he became a scholarship holder of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, where Prof. Christhard Gössling was his principal mentor. As an academy member, he took part in tours, contributed to chamber music projects of the Berlin Philharmonic, and participated in CD productions. He worked with leading conductors and performed as a guest with the other major Berlin orchestras (Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper, Komische Oper, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester).
In 2016 Rocco Rescigno joined the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, with which he toured across Europe. Concerts at the London Proms, the Amsterdam Mahler Festival, and the Berlin Young Euro Classic were broadcast live on radio.
When his two-year fellowship with the Berlin Philharmonic came to an end in 2017, Rocco Rescigno was appointed principal trombonist of the Duisburg Philharmonic – Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Since then, he has collaborated with various orchestras in North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2020, he has also been teaching as a lecturer at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and Youth Orchestras as the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Landesjugendblasorchester Rheinland-Pfalz, the Junge Bläserphilharmonie NRW and Music System Italy.
As a soloist, Rocco Rescigno is committed to contemporary trombone music. To date, he has performed more than forty world premieres. Within the framework of the Philharmonic Concerts of the City of Duisburg, Rescigno was scheduled to perform Henri Tomasi’s Trombone Concerto in January 2021. As public concerts were impossible at that time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a video production was recorded, which was praised as “Magnifique” by the Tomasi Society in Marseille. In November 2022, Rescigno was finally able to perform Tomasi’s concerto for the Duisburg audience under the direction of Axel Kober.