Violin
Giacomo Tesini - Violin
Giacomo Tesini had his first revelation of his deep interest for music when he heard The Moldau of Smetana at elementary school. Giacomo had been dreaming of joining Abbado’s Orchestra since he was a young musician freshly graduated. He is a member of the Orchestra Mozart from its beginning in 2004. Being part of this Orchestra “really changed his life”. He considers of utmost importance to widen the public of classical music.
Born in Bologna in 1984, graduated in violin with honors and a special mention at the Conservatory “A. Boito” in Parma with his mentor Grazia Serradimigni. He then went on studying in Budapest (at the Franz Liszt Academy, together with Vilmos Szabadi), Nuremberg (Musikhochschule, Daniel Gaede’s violin lessons) and in Lucerne (Musikhochschule, with Giuliano Carmignola). He then attended master classes held by Ana Chumachenco, Cristiano Rossi, Giuliano Carmignola, Pavel Vernikov, Lenuta Ciulei and Trio di Trieste.
He joined the Orchestra Mozart from the very beginning, with which he recorded several pieces for Deutsche Grammophon. Since 2008 he has played in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Andris Nelsons, Bernard Haitink and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, as leader of the second violin section. He also worked with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Solo Artists of Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Solisti dell’Orchestra Mozart, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and the Orchestra of the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari (concertmaster). As a solo artist accompanied by orchestra, he performed the Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bruch) at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and the Violin Concerto (Brahms) at the Teatro Regio di Parma. He performed several times Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra, together with the Orchestra Mozart, playing as a solo artist with Lorenza Borrani (at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia) and Giuliano Carmignola (Auditorium “S. Cristina” in Bologna).
He is co-founder of the Spira mirabilis project (www.spiramirabilis.com).
He studied baroque violin with Fiorenza De Donatis and Luca Giardini and attended the Baroque and Classical Orchestral Training Courses of the Academia Montis Regalis of Mondovì. In 2011 he attended lectures for violin and fortepiano duo on German Romantic performing practice held by Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In 2018 he graduated in baroque violin at the Conservatory of Cesena with a thesis on the Bolognese Violin School between the 17th and 18th centuries. When it comes to early music, he works together with I Barocchisti, under Diego Fasolis’ direction, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann’s Ensemble Orfeo 55, Christophe Rousset’s Les Talens Lyriques, Váslav Luks’ Collegium 1704, the Dresdner Festspielorchester, and Emmanuel Krivine’s Chambre Philharmonique.
Since 2007 he holds the course “La filosofia nei luoghi del silenzio” and was in charge, as author and host, of “Classica per Tutti”, a project aimed at promoting classical music, produced by the Turin Rai Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale.
He is also violin professor at the Bonporti Conservatory in Trento.
