GIANLUCA GIGANTI
Gianluca Giganti, born in Viterbo in 1971, is widely recognized as one of the most interesting cellists of his generation. After obtaining the Diploma with highest honors from the Conservatory "Santa Cecilia" in Rome with Giorgio Ravenna (concert performer and teacher former student of André Navarra), he completed his training with Mario Brunello at the Foundation "Romano Romanini " in Brescia and with Franco Maggio-Ormezowski at the “Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” in Rome. From 1990 to 1993 he also attended the Summer Courses of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Mischa Maisky and Mark Drobinsky, achieving always the Certificate of Merit.
He is a winner of prizes in two of the most important international cello competitions: the International Competition "Prague Spring" of 1994 (the first Italian) and at the "Roberto Caruana-Premio Stradivari "of Milan in 1996. Since early age he has been the principal cellist at some of the major Italian Symphonic Orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the National Symphony Orchestra RAI in Turin, the Symphonic Orchestra of Rome, the Teatro San Carlo Orchestra in Naples.
He has performed as a soloist of the most important concerts of the cello repertoire (those of Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Haydn, Shostakovich, Don Quixote by Richard Strauss) and triple Concert of Beethoven (in 2007 with Giorgia Tomassi and Domenico Nordio and in 2016 with
Fabrizio Falasca and Vincenzo Maltempo). Among the most important Festivals and the Seasons which he participated, as a soloist, in duo with piano or chamber musician, there are Festival "Prague Spring", Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello, Festival "Uto Ughi per Roma", “Concerti del Quirinale”, Ravello Festival, “Serate Musicali di Milano”, IUC (University Concert Institution) in Rome, Festival "Alfredo Piatti" in Bergamo, Mantova Chamber Music Festival. In 2007 he performed as a soloist with the Orchestra "The Philharmonic of Rome" in an important tour in some of the major concert halls of the ex - Soviet Union including the "Philharmonic Hall" of Ekaterinburg and the " Tchaikovsky Hall " in Moscow. He has premiered works by well-known Italian Composers including Gianvincenzo Cresta’s "Algos" for cello and piano, Carla Magnan ‘s "Margini" (dedicated to Michelangelo Quartet) and Silvia Colasanti’s "Lamento" for cello solo (performed in 2016 at the Festival of Conques).
He is cello teacher at the Conservatory "Nicola Sala" of Benevento and recently started a collboration with the great French pianist François-Joel Thiollier.
