Umberto Clerici (Cello)
Umberto Clerici was born in
Turin in 1981 and he began the study of cello when he was five at the Suzuki
School of Turin.
Laureate or Prize winner at the most important
international cello competitions (the “Antonio Janigro” in Zagreb, the
Tchaikovsky in Moscow and the “Rostropovich” Competition in Paris), in 2000 he
received his diploma from Turin’s Conservatory with full marks. He attended the
courses of Mario Brunello at the “Romano Romanini Foundation” in Brescia, and of
David Gиringas in Fiesole. In 2007 he took the master degree (PhD course) at the
Augsburg and Nurnberg University (Germany) with Julius Berger.
In April of 1999 he made his debut as soloist playing
Haydn’s D Major cello concerto in Japan. Afterwards he performed with many
orchestras including the Philarmonia Wien, “I Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milan,
Orchestra of Rome, Brighton Philarmonic, Zagreb Soloist, Orchestra da Camera di
Mantova, “Haydn” Orchester of Trento and Bozen, Symphony Orchestras of Istanbul,
Ankara, Bursa and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra collaborating with
conductors like Keri-Lynn Wilson, Lu Jia, Dimitri Sitkovetzki, Jean Bernard
Pommier, Barry Wordsworth, Ola Rudner and Lukas-Peter Graf.
He had been for 4 years the soloist in residence of
Turin Philharmonic.
He recorded a CD of the Saint-Saens cello concerto
n°1 for RS label and in 2006 a new cd has been released together with “Amadeus”,
the most important italian magazine for classical music, with all the
compositions for cello and orchestra by Tchaikovsky and the First concerto by
Shostakovich.
He performed in some of the most important concert
halls such as the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Big
Hall of the Musik Verein in Wien and the "Auditorium Parco della Musica" in
Rome. In 2003 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival.
He received many Awards: between them, in July of
2003 he received in Florence a prestigious prize called “Galileo 2000” together
with the famous Italian violinist Uto Ughi and the Nobel prize-winner for Peace
Simon Peres, the Mozarteum prize in Salzburg, the "Pressenda Award" 2005 for the
best young soloist of the year and the Scanno Prize 2007.
He collaborates as principal solo cellist at the "La
Scala" Opera House in Milan.
During the year he teaches at the Perosi Academy in
Biella and in the summer he serves as the assistant teacher at Julius Berger’s
class at the Salzburg Mozarteum. He gave masterclasses at the Cleveland
Institute of Music (CIM), Augsburg Hochschule (Germany), Istanbul Conservatory
and Ankara University (Turkey).
Beginning in his early youth, he has partipated in
several chamber music groups with a number of famous musicians including Pavel
Vernikov, Enrico Pace, Anthony Pay, Sergej Krilov, Massimo Quarta, Marco Rizzi,
Mario Brunello, Enrico Dindo, String quartet of La Scala Theatre and composers
like Sofia Gubaidulina and Viktor Suslin.
Since April of 2001 he plays with the “Trio di
Torino”.
He plays a Giovan Battista Guadagnini cello (Turin
1769) that belonged to the famous Italian cellist Antonio Janigro.
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