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Luca Simoncini got its diploma with honour at the
Conservatory "A. Boito" in Parma, under the guidance of M.o Franco Rossi, his
teacher also for Chamber Music at the Conservatory of Florence. As a student he won the
first prize at the Cello Competition in Vittorio Veneto and the first absolute prize at
the Music Accademy of Pescara. In the same period he was invited to participate to
important festivals like: "Musicanalisi" (Venice) with M.o Baldovino, the
"Spring Seminaries" (Trieste and Asolo) held by M.o Menieur and Carlo Zecchi;
"Biennale Musica 80" at the theater La Fenice of Venice, "A concert for
tomorrow" by Luigi Fait for the RAI-TV (Italian National Television). As a soloist he has collaborated with I Solisti
Veneti and with I Nuovi Virtuosi di Roma, in tournées from Europe to Japan. Always as a
soloist he performed in 1985 in several theatres, amongst which the theater Alla Scala in
Milan in concerts dedicated to The Art of Fuge by J.S.Bach, with the renewed musicians
Borciani, Pegreffi and Poggi (CD Nuova Era 6744/45). In these last years he was called to
play in chamber music project with I Solisti della Scala and I Virtuosi Italiani in very
important venues of Italy and abroad, in addition to this he participated at many tours of
the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, under the direction of some of the most important
directors of the world, like Riccardo Muti and Myun Wung-Chung.
Member of several juries for national and
international competitions (Vittorio Veneto, Verona…), from 1980 he is Professor for Cello at the Music Conservatory "Venezze"
in Rovigo and is regularly called to hold Master-Classes for Cello and Chamber
Music in Fivizzano, Treviso, Asolo and at the Music School of Saluzzo. This year 2000 he
will teach at the International Master-Classes of Gorizia. He plays a cello Gregorio
Antoniazzi of 1737 belonged to Gaspar Cassadò.
To his personal and prestigious career as a
soloist, he preferred from 1982 that of the string quartet: so in 1985 he founded with his
brother Alessandro, with Luigi Mazza and Demetrio Comuzzi the Giovane Quartetto Italiano
(Young Italian String Quartet), a name which was suggested by the teachers Paolo Borciani,
Elisa Pegreffi, Franco Rossi and Piero Farulli, who prepared the young artists. The
quartett immediately got important recognition: for two years the Honour Diploma at the
Accademia Chigiana di Siena, at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese and at the Staatliche
Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. He got the Agis-prize in 1982 and the Dragoni-prize in
Fiesole.
The Giovane Quartetto Italiano has
performed in the most important venues in Italy and all over the world (Japan, USA, URSS).
Also collaborating in quintet ed octet with numerous artists: the pianists Mario Borciani,
Maurizio Zanini, Bruno Rigutto, Boris Petrushansky, Roberto Cappello, the guitarrist
Stefano Grondona, the clarinettists Depeyer, Mayer, Daniels, the violist Danilo Rossi and
the Borodin Quartet. For its CD with Claves, Emi, Adda and Nuova Era the Giovane Quartetto
Italiano - from 1996 named Nuovo Quartetto Italiano - got the highest recognition given by
the critics: Stella d'oro, Diapason d'or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Prestige, Gran Prix
du Disque.
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