Vincenzo Bolognese

Vincenzo Bolognese: Born in Lecce in 1966. He was a pupil first of his father and then of Felix Ayo. He obtained his diploma in violin and chamber music with the highest marks and special merit at the Conservatory of St.

Cecilia and the National Academy of St. Cecilia.
He then continued his studies with Salvatore Accardo, Riccardo Brengola, and Pierluigi Urbini.
Bolognese has won a large number of prestigious prizes in national competitions, including the "Curci" prize (Naples, 1985) and the "Paganini" prize (Genoa, 1987).
In 1988 he was invited to give a recital in Palazzo Tursi with the violin which Paganini himself used and he has also been awarded the "Plateo d’Oro" prize for artistic merit.
He has played with such important musical institutions as the Teatro San Carlo of Naples, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the "Scarlatti" Orchestra of Naples, the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the Maggio Musicale of Florence.
He has played under such famous conductors as Accardo, Aronovic, Ferro, H.W.Menze, Maag, Plasson, Sinopoli, Stern, and Urbini.
He has also performed for many national radio and television corporations - in Italy, France, Germany, Monte Carlo, and the Vatican. In 1990 he was awarded the gold medal of the international association "Foyer des Artistes".
As a musicologist, he has curated the revision and recording of a large number of pieces by Paganini for Boccacini and Spada (in CD), Ysaye’s Six Sonatas, all of Heifetz’s transcriptions for violin and piano, a monograph on Tartini, Paganini’s Fourth Concerto and Variations, as well as the world premiere of Respighi’s Concerto in A Major.
He has served as Concertmaster of the Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and is now serving in the same position at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
He plays a "Mattia Albani" violin which was made at the end of the 17th century.