Claudio Laureti | Viola, Italy

Claudio Laureti | Viola, Italy

Born and raised in Rome, he graduated with honors from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome in the classes of Margot Burton and Luca Sanzò and pursued further training at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne with Diemut Poppen, at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz of Cologne with Alexander Gordon (Zemtsov) and at the Accademia Walter Stauffer of Cremona with Bruno Giuranna. He has furthermore attended masterclasses with Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian, Hartmuth Rohde, Lawrence Power, Lars Anders Tomter and Wilfried Strehle.

As soloist or chamber musician he has performed all across
Europe, in venues such as the Gran Teatro la Fenice of
Venice, Kölner Philharmonie, Teatro Ponchielli of Cremona, Teatro alla Scala of Milan, and Teatro Sociale of Como, with such artists as Giovanni Sollima, Bruno Giuranna, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Torleif Thedéen, Eszter Haffner, Salvatore Accardo, Francesca Dego, Ton Koopman, Robert McDuffie, Marc Bouchkov, Franco Petracchi, Enrico Bronzi, Alexander Gordon (Zemtsov), Marko Ylönen, and Antonio Meneses. He is regular guests of institutions such as the Zermatt Festival, in collaboration with the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, the Fiskars Summer Festival, OperaEstate Festival, Chamber Music on Valentia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Aurora Chamber Music, Accademia dei Cameristi di Bari, Swiss Chamber Academy, New Generation Festival, Talich Beroun Festival and the Rome Chamber Music Festival. Some of his concerts have been recorded for broadcasters such as SWR and RaiRadio3.

A laureate of competitions such as the Anton Rubinstein International Competition (Düsseldorf) and Virtuoso & Belcanto (Lucca), he has been supported by the program NeuStart Kultur of the Deutscher Musikrat and by the Associazione Culturale Musica con le Ali, and has been awarded a prize by the Rotary Club Cremona as best student of the Stauffer Center for Strings. Since 2021 he is a scholarship holder of the Foundation Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz and since 2018 he takes part regularly in the projects of the Lead! Foundation Finland.

Since January 2022 he holds the position of Principal Viola with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, and has appeared as Guest Principal with the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and the European Union Chamber Orchestra. He has furthermore cooperated with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Karajan Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Kölner Kammerorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Finnish Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of, among others, Antonio Pappano, Sakari Oramo, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christoph Eschenbach, Kirill Petrenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Klaus Mäkelä, Jorma Panula and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.