Duo Nordio-Scattolin concert

Domenico Nordio, Violin / Massimo Scattolin, Guitar

Domenico Nordio, violin

DOMENICO NORDIO IS ONE OF ACCLAIMED MUSICIANS OF OUR TIME. He has performed in the world’s prestigious halls (Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Barbican Center in London and Suntory Hall in Tokyo), with leading orchestras, including London Symphony, National de France, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Istanbul Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra, Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Moscow State Symphony and with conductors such as Flor, Steinberg, Casadesus, Luisi, Lazarev, Aykal.

He is artist in residence of the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milano.

Recent seasons included concerts at St.Petersburg Philharmonic, Bucarest Enescu Philharmonic Hall, Rio de Janeiro Teatro Municipal, Buenos Aires Teatro Colón, Moscow Tchaikovsky Great Hall and Istanbul Zorlu Center. He performed at Amsterdam Concertgebouw (chamber music series), Moscow International House of Music (with Mikhail Lidsky), Auditorium of Milan (with Bartok 2 concerto and the Verdi Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Ceccherini), Kiev Philharmonic Great Hall (with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra and Roman Kofman), Sala São Paulo of São Paulo (Respighi Concerto conducted by Isaac Karabtchevskij), Mexico City Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Ankara with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (Respighi Concerto) Montevideo with the Montevideo Philharmonic conducted by Alexandros Myrat (Schostakovich 1 at Teatro Solis). Last seasons include also performances, among others, with the “Orchestra Nazionale della RAI” (Casella), the Orchestra Verdi in Milan, the Caracas “Simon Bolivar”, the Bogotà Philharmonic, the Kiev Philharmonic (Brahms), the Kaunas Symphony , Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira and Johann Sebastian Rio. Very appreciated as chamber music player, Mr. Nordio appears in prestigious Festivals alongside to Misha Maisky, Louis Lortie, Boris Belkin, Mikhail Lidsky and Jeffrey Swann. He’s also an influential performer of modern music and many composers have dedicated him masterpieces: Semini, Donatoni (Duo for Violin and Viola, premiered at the «Settimana Musicale Senese»), Boccadoro (Cadillac Moon, premiered with the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Orchestra and recorded live by Rai Trade), Dall’Ongaro (The Red Zone) and Molinelli (Zorn Hoffnung Gesang, premiered during the final concert of the Composing Competition «August 2» with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Symphony Orchestra).

Very appreciated as chamber music player, Mr. Nordio appears in prestigious Festivals alongside to Misha Maisky, Louis Lortie, Boris Belkin, Giovanni Bellucci, Mikhail Lidsky and Jeffrey Swann. He’s also an influential performer of modern music and many composers have dedicated him masterpieces: Semini, Donatoni (Duo for Violin and Viola, premiered at the «Settimana Musicale Senese»), Boccadoro (Cadillac Moon, premiered with the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Orchestra and recorded live by Rai Trade), Dall’Ongaro (The Red Zone) and Molinelli (Zorn Hoffnung Gesang, premiered during the final concert of the Composing Competition «August 2» with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Symphony Orchestra).

Mr. Nordio is recording exclusively for Sony Classical. His three CDs include Respighi and Dallapiccola with Muhai Tang and the Parma Filarmonica Toscanini (internationally released in March 2013), Castelnuovo Tedesco and Casella with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and Tito Ceccherini (internationally released in January 2015) and Busoni and Malipiero, concerto n.1 and n.2 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano and Tito Ceccherini (internationally released in June 2018).

Pupil of Corrado Romano and Michèle Auclair, born in Venice in 1971, former child prodigy (he gave his first recital at age of ten), at age of sixteen Nordio won the Viotti International Competition in Vercelli with the legendary Yehudi Menuhin as President of the Jury. After the achievements at Paris Thibaud Competition, Viña del Mar Sigall Competition and Marseille Francescatti Competition, the Eurovision Grand Prix obtained in 1988 launched him to the international career: Nordio is the only Italian prizewinner in the history.

Massimo Scattolin, guitar

After a number of meetings with Andres Segovia, Massimo Scattolin began his concert career as a soloist, since developing his chamber music and orchestral activities to include some of the best-known concertos for guitar and orchestra. Composers such as Andrea Morricone, Astor Piazzolla and Violet Archer have written concerts for him.

Massimo thus rose to the attention of European, Asian, North and South American and Australian audiences and has been described by critics as being one of the best guitarists of our times. He has worked with the main European television networks, as well as with great theatre actors such as Cucciolla, Pagliai and Gassman. He regularly takes part in international festivals and is the first Italian guitarist to have held master classes at the “Mozarteum” in Salzburg.

For the last few years Massimo Scattolin has been increasingly involved in composing works, first for solo guitar, and lately for symphony orchestra.

He has released more than 40 recordings, both as a soloist and in collaboration with musicians such as the violinists Carmignola and Mezzena, the cellists Demenga, Bonucci and Berger, the flautist Fabbriciani, the Amati quartet, the pianist Damerini, the percussionist De Piscopo and the famous group from Cuba “Buena Vista Social Club”.

Massimo plays a “lattice braced” guitar, made by Enzo Guido, with Dogal “Maestrale” strings.

“…Exquisite guitar and musical art…” Alirio Diaz

“Music is the real universal language because it is able to feed the most varied of human sensations, enhancing their purest and most noble essence. Everyone is a musician, both when they compose a symphony and when they transform the joy of a moment into song, or even when they get moved and cry merely by listening to a piece.” — Massimo Scattolin