Enzo Caterino: Youth

Enzo Caterino is a cellist and composer whose work ranges from Baroque and Classical repertoire to contemporary and popular music. Born in Naples in 1978, he began making music as an electric bass player in progressive rock and jazz groups before graduating from the city’s San Pietro a Majella Conservatory.

After several years performing Baroque music with small ensembles throughout Italy, he moved to Germany in 2012. His projects as a cellist and composer include music for theatre, dance and visual art, often incorporating electronics. His compositions, principally for solo cello and small ensembles, have been performed in Germany, Italy, Poland and Austria. He has also presented solo cello works at the Q3 Festival in Potsdam.

Italian double-bassist Orazio Ferrari has gained great critical acclaim for his debut album, the world premiere recording "Chopin & Schumann" (Velut Luna - CVLD 245). In this 2014 release, to be understood as the summa of his instrumental and musical beliefs, his way to approach the double-bass is modern, bold and completely centered to reach the highest musical goals through an instrument widely misunderstood in the Classical Music field. This “boldness” comes from the intent (rather a strong will) to play cello music on the double-bass at the same cello pitch, expanding very much the possibilities of the instrument without any modification or arrangement of the original cello score. This deserved praiseworthy reviews by some of the most important international music magazines such as The Strad, Gramophone and Audiophile Sound. Orazio Ferrari was born in Crotone. He started to play piano at 7 and graduated brilliantly and in advance of schedule in Double-bass at “San Pietro a Majella” Conservatory in Naples under E. Calzolari, achieving afterwards a Master Degree in Solo Double-bass with full marks. He performs by using exclusively the standard E-A-D-G double-bass tuning.

Enzo Caterino is a cellist and composer whose work ranges from Baroque and Classical repertoire to contemporary and popular music. Born in Naples in 1978, he began making music as an electric bass player in progressive rock and jazz groups before graduating from the city’s San Pietro a Majella Conservatory.

After several years performing Baroque music with small ensembles throughout Italy, he moved to Germany in 2012. His projects as a cellist and composer include music for theatre, dance and visual art, often incorporating electronics. His compositions, principally for solo cello and small ensembles, have been performed in Germany, Italy, Poland and Austria. He has also presented solo cello works at the Q3 Festival in Potsdam.