Giulia Gambaro

Biography

Giulia Gambaro (2001, Milan) began playing the violin when she was 6 years old at Fondazione Luigi Piseri in Brugherio with Domenico Cutrì. She has soon taken part in Eva Szily’s masterclasses held in Lugano (2012, 2013), as well as the ones held in Dues (2013), Etroubles (from 2014 to 2018) and Schilpario (2019) by Piercarlo Sacco, whom she has been a student of since 2012. In the same year she joined the “Piseri Ensemble” string orchestra, and she soon gained the Leadership of Second Violins’ section.

In 2018 she started attending the three-year academic program at Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan in Professor Carlo Feige’s class, always achieving full marks. Thanks to a collaboration between Civica Claudio Abbado and Imola International Academy in Imola (BO), Giulia has recently taken part by invitation in Imola Summer Music Academy and Festival, where she attended Professor Marco Zuccarini’s Chamber Music lessons with her piano quartet (Hayez Quartet). In October 2021 she was admitted to the Specialization Course in Piano Chamber Music at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (FI), where she and her colleagues regularly attend lessons held by Professors Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Vashti Hunter, Nicholas Rimmer, Bruno Canino and Alexander Lonquich.

She has achieved several First Prizes in both national and international competitions held in Italy, such as “Città di Giussano” (2009), “Fondazione Milano” (2012), “A. Salieri” in Legnago (2010, 2016 and 2017), “Caffa-Righetti” in Cortemilia (2011) and “Rovere d’oro” in San Bartolomeo a mare (2016). The Third Prize she achieved in prestigious “Young Talents” international competition in Barlassina (2014) is also important.

She has held several concerts as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. Her Bach solo performances (Serate Musicali at MAMU; Talenti -20 in Rho; Palco Libero in Cernusco sul Naviglio) have always been appreciated, as well as her contemporary music ones (in Milan for La Nuova Polifonica Ambrosiana at San Marco and San Bartolomeo churches and for Contemporary Music Hub at Steam Factory). She has had the opportunity to perform masterpieces such as Schubert’s Rondò in A major both in original arrangement (Centre Cardinal in Le-Puy-en-Velay, France) and accompanied by the orchestra (Region Palace in Milan for FIM). She has played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as a soloist since 2016 (Serate Musicali at Spazio Teatro 89 in Milan; Interludi in Cislago; Piccole Chiese e dintorni at Sormani Villa in Brugherio) and recorded them for Mac Ray International Studio. Performances as an orchestral player are also important (Auditorium Gaber at Pirelli Palace in Milan; Opera Musifica Istruzione in Torino). In October 2021 she undertook a collaboration with Bell’Opera Festival in Milan as Concertmaster of Ensemble Musica Instrumentalis with conductor Deun Lee. She has performed with pianist Gaia Sokoli (in Bussero for Associazione Manifestare Opportunità; in Milan for Spazio ScopriCoop) and has had the opportunity to be accompanied by pianist Luca Schieppati for Serate Musicali at MAMU and at Spazio Teatro 89. She has recently performed with Hayez Quartet in Imola (Rocca Sforzesca), Milan (Auditorium Lattuada), Conzano (Vidua Villa) and Latina for International Campus of Music.

Her instrument is an Italian violin restored by Giovanni Capalbo (Rome) in 1939 and ascribed to Giovanni Tononi (1690).