Vittorio Ghielmi

Vittorio Ghielmi is a viola da gamba player, born in 1968, in Milano, Italy. Vittorio has performed in the most important concert halls of Europe and the USA as a soloist with orchestras such as Il Giardino Armonico, Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra London. He teaches viola da gamba at Conservatorio Luca Marenzio di Brescia.

Vittorio Ghielmi is the founder of Il Suonar Parlante ensemble (consort), playing with famous composers and jazzists (Uri Caine, Don Byron, Kenny Wheeler). He published a viol tutorial (in collaboration with Paolo Biordi, Ut-Orpheus Editions, Bologna) and also unedited viol music (Ed. Minkoff, Fuzeau).

Vittorio Ghielmi played or plays with the these groups:

• L’Ensemble Baroque de Limoges
• Italian Viola da Gamba Quartet (viol consort)
• Il Suonar Parlante (viol consort)
• Duo: Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba) and Luca Pianca (lute)

Vittorio plays a viola da gamba built by the famous maker Michel Colichon, Paris, 1688.

Vittorio Ghielmi is the recipient of these awards:

• The Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco (Brescia 1995)
• The Erwin Bodky Award (Camebridge, Massachussetts, 1997)

Discography

• Bagpipes from Hell — Music for Viola da gamba, Lyra-viol, Lute, and Ceterone. 17th and 18th century (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 1999_

• Pièces de caractère — Works by: Marais, Antoine Forqueray, Mouton, Dollé, Caix d'Hervelois, De Visée (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 2002)

• Short Tales for a Viol — English lyra-viol music of the 17th century (Vittorio Ghielmi)

• Duo - German Music for Lute & Viol (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca)

• Full of Colour (V. Ghielmi, E. Reijseger, Il Suonar Parlante)

• Johann Sebastian Bach — Preludi ai corali (Vittorio Ghielmi, Italian Viola da Gamba Quartet)

• Telemann, Georg Philipp — Chamber Music with Viola Da Gamba (Ensemble Baroque de Limoges)

• Devil's Dream (Ghielmi, Pianca, Gibelli)

• Johann Sebastian Bach — Sonatas, Preludes and Fugues

• Villa Medici - Nata per la musica Bern, Beschi, Caine

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Lieder zum singen bey dem Clavier

• Johann Gottlieb Graun — Konzertante Musik mit Viola da Gamba

• J. S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord, Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano). Also includes Bach Preludes & Fugues, 1998, [Lorenzo is Vittorio's older brother]

• C. P. E. Bach: Lieder - Zum singen bey dem clavier — Ursula Fiedler (Sorpano) Lorenzo Ghielmi (Clavier), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Ars Musici, 1999

• Der Kastanienball — Vittorio Ghielmi, Il Suonar Parlante — Prinzregenten Theater, Munchen, Germany (2004).

• Dalla Casa: Il Secondo Libro dei Madrigali — Il Terzo Suono Balconi, Dalla Casa, Fabris, Fagotto, Fedi

• Graun: Concerti — Ponseele, Il Gardellino Ensemble

• Monteverdi: Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali — Concerto Italiano Alessandrini

External links

• Artist's web site