Francesco De Angelis is an Italian violin

Violin

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ist, both leader and soloist of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala and Filarmonica della Scala. He is internationally acclaimed as one of the major talented musician by critics and public alike. The peculiarity of his performances is an unmistakable romantic sound blended with the Bel canto

Bel canto

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 style and with the rigour of the middle-European instrumental tradition.

Early years

He began studying violin at the age of 6 with Giovanni Leone. Aged 11 he participated in the Rassegna Giovani Violinisti Città di Vittorio Veneto, winning first prize (in 1982, and in successive years 1984 and 1985).

Following the suggestion of the soloist Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Jean-Jacques Kantorow

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, Francesco De Angelis further pursued his studies with Tibor Varga at the Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland

Sion, Switzerland

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Aged nineteen, he gained the position of co-leader of Teatro alla Scala Orchestra.

In 1993, he was unanimously awarded first prize at the 21st Concorso Nazionale di Violino Città di Vittorio Veneto.

In 1995, he auditioned successfully for the position of leader at Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice in Venice

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In 1998, participating in an international competition, he was chosen by Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti

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 as Konzertmeister for both the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala and Filarmonica della Scala.

International career

Francesco De Angelis has collaborated with the greatest conductors including Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

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, Gary Bertini

Gary Bertini

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, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly

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, Myung-Whun Chung

Myung-Whun Chung

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, Colin Davis

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, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

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, Charles Dutoit

Charles Dutoit

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, Gianandrea Gavazzeni

Gianandrea Gavazzeni

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, Valery Gergiev

Valery Gergiev

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, Carlo Maria Giulini

Carlo Maria Giulini

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, Paavo Jarvi

Paavo Järvi

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, Lorin Maazel

Lorin Maazel

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, Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti

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, Georges Pretre

Georges Prêtre

- Biography :He was born in Waziers , and attended the Douai Conservatory and then studied harmony under Maurice Duruflé and conducting under André Cluytens among others at the Conservatoire de Paris. Amongst his early musical interests were jazz and trumpet. After graduating, he conducted in a...

, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

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, Wolfgang Sawallisch

Wolfgang Sawallisch

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, Georg Solti

Georg Solti

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, Jeffrey Tate

Jeffrey Tate

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 and Yuri Temirkanov

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Under Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti

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's baton, he participated in the peace-fostering project Vie dell'Amicizia promoted by the Ravenna Festival in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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, Beirut

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, Jerusalem, Ground Zero in New York

New York

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 (on the anniversary of the collapse of the Twin Towers 2002) and Damascus

Damascus

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. In 2003 he was personally invited by Valery Gergiev

Valery Gergiev

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 to represent Italy in the World Orchestra for Peace in Saint Petersburg

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 and in Moscow

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Francesco De Angelis has performed, as soloist, in concert halls such as: the Gasteig at Munich, the Bachsaal in Amsterdam, the Paris Conservatoire, Rockefeller Center and Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum of Mannheim. He played as soloist with the Euskadi Orchestra, the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra, l'Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto. In the season 2005-2006 he played the Alexander Glazunov

Alexander Glazunov

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 Concerto in A min Op. 82 with the Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

He performs also in chamber music concerts. He played with prestigious soloists such as Enrico Dindo, Massimo Quarta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Tibor Varga, Die Solisten des Wiener Philharmoniker.

He is professor at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland

Sion, Switzerland

Sion is the capital of the Swiss canton of Valais. it had a population of .Landmarks include the Basilique de Valère and Château de Tourbillon. Sion has an airfield for civilian and military use, which, because of its location in a valley, causes a reasonable amount of noise pollution. FC Sion...

 and he holds Master Classes in France

France

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, Italy

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, Japan

Japan

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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Francesco De Angelis plays the violin Giovanni Battista Guadagnini

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini ; was an emiliano luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.-Biography:...

 "Ex Kleynenberg" (Torino, 1783), lent by the Pro Canale Foundation, Milan

Milan

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External links

• Official Site - News, recordings, photo gallery of Francesco De Angelis