Leonardo Notarangelo – cello

Leonardo Notarangelo was born in 2000 into a family of musicians and graduated in Cello in 2018 with top marks and honors at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory of Music in Rome in Dante Cianferra’s class.
The meeting with maestro Giovanni Gnocchi was decisive for his career, under whose guidance he continued his studies, first in the specialization classes in Fiesole and Bologna and from 2020 in the II level Master at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, finished in 2023 with top marks.
Founder of the Elsa Quartet (2014-2019), he trained at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona, participating in the “Le Dimore del Quartetto” project and winning numerous competitions including the “Piero Farulli” prize at the “Crescendo” competition in Florence. Awarded in national and international competitions, among these we mention the First Prize at the 2018 Riviera Etrusca Competition in Piombino and the Absolute First Prize in its category at the “Crescendo” Prize in Florence 2022, in addition to the “Sorgentone-Mecatti” Special Prize awarded to the best cellist of the edition.
He has collaborated with numerous orchestras as first cellist, such as the Italian Youth Orchestra, the Accademia della Scala Orchestra, the Benevento Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since 2023 he has been an academic at the Mantua Chamber Orchestra.
Other collaborations see him take part in the orchestra of the Camerata Ducale of Vercelli and the Regional Orchestra of Tuscany as concertmaster, in the Fil of Milan, the Haydn Orchestra of Trento and Bolzano.