Violoncello

Cellist and conductor, he was born in Parma in 1973.

In 1990 he founded the Trio di Parma, with which he played in the most important concert halls in Europe, the USA, South America and Australia (Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Cologne Philharmonic, Munich Herkulessaal, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires).

With this formation he established himself in international competitions in Florence, Melbourne, Lyon and Munich, also receiving the Abbiati Prize from Italian music critics. Since 2001, following his success at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris and his victory at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, where he also received the prize for the best performance of the Dvorák concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic, he began an intense solo activity.

He regularly participates in numerous festivals, including: Lucerna, Kronberg, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Melbourne, Turku, Naantali, Stresa, Ravenna, Lockenhaus. His activity has led him to collaborate with great artists such as Martha Argerich, Alexander Lonquich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, Wolfram Christ, Joshua Bell, Stefan Milenkovich and groups such as the Hagen Quartet, the Kremerata Baltica and the Giardino Armonico. He has played as a soloist under the guidance of Claudio Abbado, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Berglund, Frans Brüggen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tan Dun, Reinhard Goebel.

He followed Jorma Panula’s conducting lessons and is a guest of numerous ensembles, including the Mozart Orchestra (at the invitation of Claudio Abbado), Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, the Chamber Orchestra of Mantua, the Haydn Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Virtuosi Italiani, the Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Sinfonica della Val d’Aosta, the Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2007 he has been a professor at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.

Among his recordings, in addition to the vast production with the Trio di Parma (Decca), there are all the concerts by Boccherini (Brilliant Classics), the concerts by C. P. E. Bach (Amadeus), a monographic disc on Nino Rota, the Sonatas of Geminiani (Concerto) and the complete Bach Suites (Fregoli Music) which was in second place in the top ten of classical music albums on the iTunes Music Store.

Enrico Bronzi plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello from 1775.

He has been involved in musical promotion since 2007, as Artistic Director of the Portogruaro Festival, of the Società dei Concerti di Trieste, of the Festival Nei Suoni dei Luoghi (Udine).

It has organized cycles of concerts and festivals, placing the dialogue between music and different forms of human thought at the center of its conception, often through strong thematization and promoting events in the field of chamber and symphonic music, ethnomusicology, jazz, of ancient and contemporary music, of musical dissemination, to promote new talents and in favor of the very young public, also alongside protagonists from the world of culture and through a multidisciplinary vision.

Since 2018 he has been the artistic director of the Perugia Musica Classica Foundation, for which he is responsible for the programming of the Friends of Music of Perugia and the Sagra Musicale Umbra, alongside the close collaboration with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra.