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Riccardo Minasi, violin
Music director of the Opera Carlo Felice in Genova and of the Orchestra “La Scintilla” at the Opernhaus Zürich, and principal guest conductor of the Ensemble Resonanz at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Riccardo Minasi’s most recent invitations as guest conductor include orchestras such as Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Swedish Radio Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, among others.
Co-founder and director of the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro from 2012 to 2015, he was also chief conductor of Mozarteumorchester Salzburg between 2017 and 2022. In collaboration with Maurizio Biondi, he published the new critical edition of Norma by Bellini for Bärenreiter in 2016.
With a repertoire that spans from the Middle Ages to new contemporary commissions, he has collaborated with some of the world’s leading soloists (Domingo, Flórez, Bartoli, Terfel, DiDonato, Lisiecki, Moreau, Blechacz, Capuçon, etc.) and has a wealth of award-winning recordings. Among these most notably are the albums Biber: Rosenkranz Sonaten (finalist at the Midem Classical Awards in Cannes as album of the year 2009),Stella di Napoli with Joyce Di Donato (Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2014, BBC Music Magazine Award, Gramophone Choice, Grammy Award nomination 2015), Agrippina (International Opera Award 2016), Partenope (Gramophone Magazine recording of the month), Catone in Utica, Giovincello, Haydn Concertos (Echo Klassik Award 2016), Haydn: Die sieben letzten Worte (Seven Last Words), and CPE Bach Cello Concertos with Jean-Guihen Queyras (both with Ensemble Resonanz, Diapason d’Or de l’Année in 2018 and 2019 respectively).