Mario Brunello is one of the most important names in the Italian
and international music scene.
In the year 1986, Brunello was the first Italian to ever win the
Иaikovskij Competition, which launched him into a stunning
international music career. Brunello has played with some of the
most prestigious orchestras, including the Philadelphia
Orchestra, the Philharmonia London, the Orchestre National de
France, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Scala Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Santa Cecilia Academy, the London Philharmonic,
the DSO Berlin and the Munich Philharmonic. He has also
collaborated with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo
Chailly, Seiji Ozawa, Daniele Gatti, Myung-Whun Chung, Yuri Temirkanov, Giuseppe
Sinopoli, Carlo Maria Giulini and Claudio Abbado, who over the years has invited Brunello
several times to play with him with both the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival and the
Mozart Orchestra. With both he has appeared also as a soloist and a conductor.
Mario Brunello often takes on dual roles of conductor and soloist, and in 1994 he founded
the Orchestra d'Archi Italiana with which he tours intensively both in Italy and abroad.
Chamber music plays an important role in Brunello’s artistic life and he collaborates with
artists including Gidon Kremer, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Yuri Bashmet, Maurizio Pollini,
Andrea Lucchesini and the Borodin and Alban Berg Quartets.
In his artistic life, Brunello reserves ample time for projects involving diverse art forms,
from literature to philosophy, and from science to painting. In these performances,
Brunello does not express himself solely through an interpretation of traditional
repertoires, but also through interaction with actors and musicians from other cultural
influences: some of these include the performances designed together with Margherita
Hack, Uri Caine, Paolo Fresu, Moni Ovadia and Vinicio Capossela. In this way, Brunello
presents his public with a diverse, multi faceted form of making music, creating interactive
performances using music, images and words. A large part of these activities take place in
an alternative space called Antiruggine, a remodeled workshop where Brunello
experiments with these new music and art forms. Among his most recent alternative
projects “Pensavo fosse Bach” is a multimedia performance with music, lights and video
images dedicated to the Bach Suites, of which Brunello is considered to be one of the most
The diverse artistic genres experimented with by Brunello are reflected in a wide ranging
collection of recordings which includes the integral Bach Suites and Sonatas by Brahms,
Beethoven and Chopin, as well as many other recordings dedicated to cello solos. In the
spring of 2008 Deutsche Grammophon published a CD with the Beethoven Triple Concerto
conducted by Claudio Abbado.
EGEA Records is currently producing a record series articulated into five releases dedicated
to Mario Brunello. The first two CDs in the collection will be “Odusia”, a musical Odyssey
through Mediterranean culture, and “Brunello and Vivaldi”, dedicated to the cello concertos
Mario Brunello began his musical studies with Adriano Vendramelli, and then perfected his
talents with Antonio Janigro. Mario Brunello is an Academic of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
He plays a precious Maggini cello from the 1600s which once belonged to Franco Rossi.
Mario Brunello is one of the most important names in the Italian
and international music scene.
In the year 1986, Brunello was the first Italian to ever win the
Иaikovskij Competition, which launched him into a stunning
international music career. Brunello has played with some of the
most prestigious orchestras, including the Philadelphia
Orchestra, the Philharmonia London, the Orchestre National de
France, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Scala Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Santa Cecilia Academy, the London Philharmonic,
the DSO Berlin and the Munich Philharmonic. He has also
collaborated with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo
Chailly, Seiji Ozawa, Daniele Gatti, Myung-Whun Chung, Yuri Temirkanov, Giuseppe
Sinopoli, Carlo Maria Giulini and Claudio Abbado, who over the years has invited Brunello
several times to play with him with both the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival and the
Mozart Orchestra. With both he has appeared also as a soloist and a conductor.
Mario Brunello often takes on dual roles of conductor and soloist, and in 1994 he founded
the Orchestra d'Archi Italiana with which he tours intensively both in Italy and abroad.
Chamber music plays an important role in Brunello’s artistic life and he collaborates with
artists including Gidon Kremer, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Yuri Bashmet, Maurizio Pollini,
Andrea Lucchesini and the Borodin and Alban Berg Quartets.
In his artistic life, Brunello reserves ample time for projects involving diverse art forms,
from literature to philosophy, and from science to painting. In these performances,
Brunello does not express himself solely through an interpretation of traditional
repertoires, but also through interaction with actors and musicians from other cultural
influences: some of these include the performances designed together with Margherita
Hack, Uri Caine, Paolo Fresu, Moni Ovadia and Vinicio Capossela. In this way, Brunello
presents his public with a diverse, multi faceted form of making music, creating interactive
performances using music, images and words. A large part of these activities take place in
an alternative space called Antiruggine, a remodeled workshop where Brunello
experiments with these new music and art forms. Among his most recent alternative
projects “Pensavo fosse Bach” is a multimedia performance with music, lights and video
images dedicated to the Bach Suites, of which Brunello is considered to be one of the most
The diverse artistic genres experimented with by Brunello are reflected in a wide ranging
collection of recordings which includes the integral Bach Suites and Sonatas by Brahms,
Beethoven and Chopin, as well as many other recordings dedicated to cello solos. In the
spring of 2008 Deutsche Grammophon published a CD with the Beethoven Triple Concerto
conducted by Claudio Abbado.
EGEA Records is currently producing a record series articulated into five releases dedicated
to Mario Brunello. The first two CDs in the collection will be “Odusia”, a musical Odyssey
through Mediterranean culture, and “Brunello and Vivaldi”, dedicated to the cello concertos
Mario Brunello began his musical studies with Adriano Vendramelli, and then perfected his
talents with Antonio Janigro. Mario Brunello is an Academic of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
He plays a precious Maggini cello from the 1600s which once belonged to Franco Rossi.
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