Enrico Bronzi
Cello
Cellist and conductor, he was born in Parma in 1973. In 1990 he founded the Trio di Parma, with which he has performed in some of the most important concert halls in Europe, the USA, South America, and Australia, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, London’s Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.
With this ensemble he achieved major success in international competitions in Florence, Melbourne, Lyon, and Munich, and received the Premio Abbiati from the Italian music critics. From 2001, following his successes at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris and his victory at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki—where he also received the prize for the best performance of Dvořák’s concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra—he began an intense solo career.
He regularly appears at major festivals, including Lucerne, Kronberg, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Melbourne, Turku, Naantali, Stresa, Ravenna, and Lockenhaus.
His career has led him to collaborate with major artists such as Martha Argerich, Alexander Lonquich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, Wolfram Christ, Joshua Bell, Stefan Milenkovich, and ensembles such as the Hagen Quartet, Kremerata Baltica, and Il Giardino Armonico. He has performed as soloist under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Berglund, Frans Brüggen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tan Dun, and Reinhard Goebel.
He studied conducting with Jorma Panula and has been a guest with numerous ensembles, including the Orchestra Mozart (by invitation of Claudio Abbado), Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Haydn Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, I Virtuosi Italiani, Filarmonica Marchigiana, and the Sinfonica Abruzzese.
Since 2007 he has been professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. His discography includes, in addition to extensive recordings with the Trio di Parma (Decca), the complete Boccherini cello concertos (Brilliant Classics), C.P.E. Bach concertos (Amadeus), a monographic album on Nino Rota, the Geminiani sonatas (Concerto), and the complete Bach cello suites (Fregoli Music), which reached second place in iTunes’ classical top ten.
Enrico Bronzi plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello from 1775. Since 2007 he has been active in musical promotion as Artistic Director of the Portogruaro Festival, the Società dei Concerti di Trieste, and the festival Nei Suoni dei Luoghi (Udine). He curates concert cycles and festivals focused on dialogue between music and other fields of human thought, often with strong thematic programming and a multidisciplinary approach spanning chamber and symphonic music, ethnomusicology, jazz, early and contemporary music, and outreach initiatives for young audiences and emerging talents.
Since 2018 he has been Artistic Director of the Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica, overseeing the programming of the Amici della Musica di Perugia and the Sagra Musicale Umbra, in close collaboration with the Orchestra da Camera di Perugia.
