Mario Brunello

Mario Brunello
This article is about the cellist. For other uses, see Brunello (disambiguation).

Mario Brunello is a renowned worldwide Italian cellist and musician. The turning point in his artistic life was the 1986 victory of the International Tchaikovsky Competition

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Life and career

Origins and musical beginnings

Mario Brunello, born in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso - Italy) 1960, is an Italian cellist. He studied under the guide of Adriano Vendramelli (Venice Conservatorio of music) and of Antonio Janigro. In 1986 he was awarded the first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow) in the cello section.[1] - ex equo with Kirill Rodin (Russia then USSR).

Since then Brunello has played with the most important orchestras in the world: London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo), Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Santa Cecilia, only to name a few, and under conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Yuri Temirkanov, Riccardo Chailly, Ton Koopman, Seiji Ozawa, Daniele Gatti, Myung-Whun Chung and Claudio Abbado.

As a chamber musician Brunello has performed with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Yuri Bashmet, Maurizio Pollini, Andrea Lucchesini, Valery Afanassiev and the Borodin and Alban Berg Quartets.

Orchestra d'Archi Italiana

In 1994, Brunello founded the "Orchestra d'Archi Italiana" (Italian String Orchiestra) starting a double performing activities as a conductor in addition to that of soloist and touring in many European countries.

Antiruggine

During the years Brunello has widened his world going beyond classical music and working on projects that mix different artistic expressions and music genres with the aim to reach a wider public and to convey a new idea of music performances and musicians. To this idea he has devoted himself turning a run-down factory sited in his hometown Castelfranco Veneto in a laboratory for concerts, teaching classes, conferences and visual art exhibitions. This laboratory is named "Antiruggine" (Italian for Antirust) after the ironwork activitiy that the place used to host but also with the meaning of urging people to keep their minds awake and always working, "don't let your mind to the rust" is the motto.

I suoni delle Dolomiti

Brunello's love for music, nature, life and friendship as a whole is epitomised by his uncommon but genuine proposals of trekking and performing in breathtaking place such as on the top of the Alps (Il Suono delle Dolomiti) or of Mount Fuji, achievements that are a kind of trademark of his being a cellist.

Brunello's cello

Brunello plays a Maggini cello (17th century) which, in the 20th century, belonged to Benedetto Mazzacurati and then to Franco Rossi, cellist of the "Quartetto Italiano".

Personal life

Family

References

  1. ^ AMC Music

Discography

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