Maria Vittoria Crotti
violin
Raised in Reggio Emilia (Italy), Maria Vittoria Crotti began her musical studies with her grandfather, a pianist. She then studied violin, attending the ´´Scuola di Musica di Fiesole´´ in Florence under the tutelage of Ladislau Petru Horvath. In addition to her Diploma in Violin Performance, she earned a Master´s in Chamber Music (violin/piano duo) at the “Accademia Pianistica Internazionale di Imola”, with Pier Narciso Masi.
As the winner of a scholarship, she continued her studies in Philadelphia with the violinist Lenuta Ciulei (1st Prize, Paganini 1976), in New York in the studio of Lewis Kaplan, participating in his masterclasses at the Juilliard School, and in Luzerne (Switzerland), with Giuliano Carmignola.
Performing publicly from an early age, she was the winner of various national and international competitions in Italy, including the Rassegna di Vittorio Veneto and International Violin Competition of Biella, immediately beginning a rigorous schedule of concert activity.
She has attended many renowned festivals and academies, including the “Accademia Russa di Alto Perfezionamento” in Portogruaro (Italy), the “Sommerakademie Mozarteum” in Salzburg, and the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” of Siena, where she was awarded a merit scholarship. She has studied in masterclasses with many of the greatest violinists of the current age, including Torsten Janicke, Zakhar Bron, Pavel Vernikov, Igor Voloscin, Matis Vaitsner, Ilya Grubert, and Mariana Sirbu. Chamber music professors have included Milan Skampa, Antonello Farulli, Renato Zanettovich, Alain Meunier, Angelo Faja, Boris Baraz, Andrea Nannoni, and Guido Corti.
At 15, under the express direction of Piero Farulli, she joined the “Orchestra Giovanile Italiana”, and continued performing with as concertmistress with the Orchestral Academy of the “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”, the “International Orchestra Institute of Attergau” patronized by the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Festival, and the “Accademia Gustav Mahler di Bolzano”. As a finalist for the European Union Youth Orchestra, she collaborated with the SIXE Ensemble “Suono Italiana per l’Europa”, with whom she toured Italy, Egypt, and Greece in various chamber music formations.
She has performed with many of the world´s leading conductors, including Carlo Maria Giulini, Eliahu Inbal, Yuri Ahronovitch, Claudio Abbado, Daniele Gatti, György Györiványi Ráth, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Piero Bellugi, Donald Runnicles, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta, Axel Kober and Adam Fischer. Her collaborations include the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giusepe Verdi, Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden and Schlossoper Haldenstein, I Cameristi della Scala, Teatro Regio di Parma, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Deutsche KammerAkademie Neuss am Rhein, as assistant concertmaster with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, and regularly as a guest with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
She plays on the "TITANUS" violin made in 1970 by Gian Carlo Guicciardi.
As the winner of a scholarship, she continued her studies in Philadelphia with the violinist Lenuta Ciulei (1st Prize, Paganini 1976), in New York in the studio of Lewis Kaplan, participating in his masterclasses at the Juilliard School, and in Luzerne (Switzerland), with Giuliano Carmignola.
Performing publicly from an early age, she was the winner of various national and international competitions in Italy, including the Rassegna di Vittorio Veneto and International Violin Competition of Biella, immediately beginning a rigorous schedule of concert activity.
She has attended many renowned festivals and academies, including the “Accademia Russa di Alto Perfezionamento” in Portogruaro (Italy), the “Sommerakademie Mozarteum” in Salzburg, and the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” of Siena, where she was awarded a merit scholarship. She has studied in masterclasses with many of the greatest violinists of the current age, including Torsten Janicke, Zakhar Bron, Pavel Vernikov, Igor Voloscin, Matis Vaitsner, Ilya Grubert, and Mariana Sirbu. Chamber music professors have included Milan Skampa, Antonello Farulli, Renato Zanettovich, Alain Meunier, Angelo Faja, Boris Baraz, Andrea Nannoni, and Guido Corti.
At 15, under the express direction of Piero Farulli, she joined the “Orchestra Giovanile Italiana”, and continued performing with as concertmistress with the Orchestral Academy of the “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”, the “International Orchestra Institute of Attergau” patronized by the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Festival, and the “Accademia Gustav Mahler di Bolzano”. As a finalist for the European Union Youth Orchestra, she collaborated with the SIXE Ensemble “Suono Italiana per l’Europa”, with whom she toured Italy, Egypt, and Greece in various chamber music formations.
She has performed with many of the world´s leading conductors, including Carlo Maria Giulini, Eliahu Inbal, Yuri Ahronovitch, Claudio Abbado, Daniele Gatti, György Györiványi Ráth, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Piero Bellugi, Donald Runnicles, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta, Axel Kober and Adam Fischer. Her collaborations include the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giusepe Verdi, Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden and Schlossoper Haldenstein, I Cameristi della Scala, Teatro Regio di Parma, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Deutsche KammerAkademie Neuss am Rhein, as assistant concertmaster with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, and regularly as a guest with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
She plays on the "TITANUS" violin made in 1970 by Gian Carlo Guicciardi.