Grazia Raimondi

 

She has studied at the Conservatorio “G.B. Martini” in Bologna, her hometown, graduating with praise in violin under the guidance of Giovanni Adamo. Afterwards she has attended improvement courses with Franco Gulli (Diploma of Merit at the "Accademia Chigiana" in Siena), Salvatore Accardo, Corrado Romano and Maurice Raskin.

 

Thanks to the “J.W. Fulbright” scholarship (New York), she has been student of Franco Gulli (violin) and Rostislav

Dubinsky (chamber music) at the Indiana University in U.S.A., where she has obtained the ”Artist Diploma”.

 

She won the 1° prize at the Rassegna Nazionale in Vittorio Veneto, at the National Violin Competition “Ugo Conta

Music Awards Hong Kong” in Mantova and at the “Sibelius International Competition” held at the Indiana University (USA).

 

In 2012 she gave a solo concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York, raising a big success from audience and critics and she has opened the 44° Newport Music Festival with a concert that gained three standing ovations, Festival where she has been invited several times .

 

She has performed concerts in Trio with Antonio Pappano and Luigi Piovano , and Beethoven Triple Concerto with Giovanni Sollima and Olaf John Laneri, she has also cooperated in chamber music with Alberto Bocini, Maurizio Baglini, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Francesco Di Rosa, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Daniel del Pino, Giuliano Mazzoccante, Aldo Orvieto; she is a member of the international contemporary music Ensemble Prometeo.

 

She has taught in violin and chamber music masterclasses at the International courses of Akiyoshidai in Japan, at the Silpakorn University in Thailand and at “Adolfo Salazar” Conservatory in Spain (Madrid), she has been invited by the Southern Louisiana University and by the Louisiana State University (USA)for masterclass and concerts .

 

She has developed intensive solo and chamber music activities in prestigious theaters and concert venues: Teatro allaScala in Milano, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Albert Hall in Londra, Grossen Musikvereinsaal in Vienna,Philharmonie in Monaco, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires etc., taking part in so many television broadcasts andengravings including the Rossini Six Sonatas in quartet for Tactus label.

 

She has collaborated with chamber groups such as “I Solisti Veneti”, “I Virtuosi di Roma” and the “New

European Strings Orchestra".

 

She has performed in Japan, in chamber music concerts with the lead parts of the Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra and as Concertmaster of the Tokyo Philarmonic Chamber Orchestra and of the Hyogo Pac Orchestra conducted by Yutaka Sado in Osaka.

 

She has been Concertmaster at the Friuli Venezia Giulia Symphony Orchestra from 2003 to 2009 wherewith she has played several times as soloist, she was Soloist Concertmaster of the "Orchestra da camera di “Padova e del Veneto”, of the “Musici Aurei" wherewith she has recorded the Vivaldi “Four Seasons” (Eloquentia), which has obtained enthusiastic reviews in Italy and abroad, she has been invited Concertmaster at the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and at the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, at the moment she is Soloist Concertmaster of the “Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato” , invited Concertmaster at the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and at the Orchestra Maderna.

 

Among the newly released CD’s: Kindertotenlieder, Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen in chamber music version, with Sara Mingardo and Luigi Piovano, and the Quartettsatz in A minor by Mahler (Eloquentia), which has already had good reviews in England by the BBC and in France it has won the “Schwarzkopf “ award as the best Mahler CD of the year; in Duo with Giuliano Mazzoccante the Giovanni Sollima piece “Continuum Nomade” dedicated to her: a trip to the Italian music from Tartini to Sollima through Paganini, Martucci, Respighi and Petrassi (Wide Classique); in Duo with Andrea Castagna the first Cd of Viotti two violins Duos (Wide Classique); in Duo with Aldo Orvieto and the partecipation of Luigi Piovano with Martinu, Schnittke, Part, Prokofiev and Montanaro music (5 Notturni dedicated to her)(Wide Classique); in Duo with Giuliano Mazzoccante Franck and Strauss Sonatas (Wide Classique).

 

She is the holder of the violin teaching at the Higher Institute Academy “G. B.Martini ” in Bologna.

 

She plays a 1783 Giuseppe Gagliano violin.