Alejandro Biancotti

Violoncello professor

High School of Music Forum Musikae

Biography

He was born in Argentina and studied cello at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in the city of Buenos Aires. At the age of 19 he joined the LRA Orchestra of the Argentine National Radio as Concertmaster under the direction of Ljerko Spiller.

After winning a scholarship from the B. Houssay Foundation, he studied in Paris under the guidance of Philippe Muller and subsequently with Rocco Filippini and Antonio Janigro in Italy. He also attended masterclasses given by Boris Pergamenshikov, David Geringas, Franco Rossi and Johannes Goritzky.

He has been a member of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the European Community Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with numerous symphonic and chamber ensembles, including La Philharmonie Wien, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, I Solisti della Scala di Milano, the Roman and Zagreb Philharmonic quartets, I Virtuosl Italiani, the Streichakademie Bozen.

In 1988 he won the competition for first cello soloist in the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, Italy, a position he kept until 2022. In his orchestral career, he has played under the direction of some of the most prestigious conductors, such as Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Jesús López Cobos, Neeme Jarvi, Ivan Fischer, G. Prètre, M. Rostropovich, G. Kuhn, Neville Marriner, G. Tate, C. M. Giulini, F. Leitner, A. Gavazzeni.

He has played and recorded in Europe, America and Japan. He has performed as a soloist with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, the Mar del Plata Symphony Orchestra, the Academic Orchestra of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, the Accademia Bach of Padua, and the Haydn Symphony Orchestra of Bolzano.

He has been a cello teacher at the Verona Conservatory and has given numerous masterclasses in Italy, in Caracas, in Buenos Aires for the Instituto Superior de Teatro Colón and in Bahía Blanca. He collaborated with Alexander Lonquich as tutor of the cello group in the orchestra courses of the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza for two years, and also tutored at the Südtiroler Jugendsinfonie Orchester for three years.

His interest in humanistic subjects has led him to obtain a doctorate in Modern Languages and Literatures at the prestigious University of Trento.

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