Stefano Cerrato

Biography:

Stefano Cerrato began studying the cello at the age of four years at Suzuki Talent Center Academy of Turin headed by Antonio Mosca under the guidance of which, he graduated, with full of marks and distinction, at  Turin Conservatory, at fifteen years old.  He  has improved his musical training with David Geringas, Natalia Gutman, Enrico Dindo and Enrico Bronzi, until the achievement, with this last, of the Postgraduate at the Universitat Art Mozarteum of Salzburg.

He has examined in depth the study of the practice of the Early Music with Reinhardt Goebel Trevor Pinnock and Emilia Fadini.

In 1997, he was selected from the Fininvest to partecipate to the television award “Piccoli Mozart” hosted by Mike Bongiorno on Channel 5, and he was the winner. Chosed to partecipate at the 5th International Thaickovsky Competition of young Muscians 2004, Kurashiki Japan (Giappone),  he received the Special Certificate of Merit from the Jury. In the autumn of the same year, he won the First Prize Overall and the Audience Award in the Concurso Internacional de Violonchelo Lluis Claret Ciudad de Moguer (Spain) and the First Prize in the European Cello Competition “Arturo Bonucci” (Italy) . In 2007. he was awarded the Finnish Broadcasting Company Special Prize in the Paulo Cello Competition in  Helsinki (Finland). In May 2008, he won the First Prize in the Enrico Mainardi Competition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.  Between 2005 and 2008, he was invited to perform the Concerto Grosso n. 1 for 3 cellos and orchestra written by Krzysztof, Pedrecki, at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, at the Ravenna Festival and at the Gdansk Academy directed by the author himself. Lover of chamber music he has been part of the Caravaggio Trio with whom he has played Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at the Konzertkirche in Neubranderburg (Germany) and at the Parco della Musica in Rome. The trio has been awarded at the international Competition for Chamber Ensemble Vittorio Gui of Florence and won the First Prize in the Casale Monferrato (AL) International Competition of Chamber Music. Stefano Cerrato has been also part of Adorno Quartet with which he has recorded the world premiere of the Castelnuovo Tedesco Quartets (Naxos), Cesar Frank’s Quartet and the George Enescu’s Octet (Fuga Libera). He is the founder and the concert cello of Armoniosa Ensemble,  a musical group that works in the research of baroque evolutionary praxis using original instruments. With Armoniosa he has recorded the Antonio Vivaldi’s opera 4 “La Stravaganza” and the Giovanni Benedetto Platti’s  “Six Sonatas” (MDG Germany), continuing with  the first recording with original instruments of Carlo Graziani’s Sonata’s op.3  for  the Rubicon Classics (England) and with the Antonio Vivaldi’s Estro Armonico for the RessDress (Italy)

As first cellist, he has collaborated with the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra of Milan, the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and with the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra of Parma.

He has worked with: Louis Lortie, Ilya Grubert, Salvatore Accardo, Pavel Vernikov, Miguel De Silva, Simonide Braconi, David Geringas, Mario Brunello, Ton Koopman, Corrado Giuffedi, Alessandro Carbonare, Andrea Oliva, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Dmitri Kitajenko, John Axelrod, Stèphane Denève, Carla Fracci, Roberto Bolle, Krzysztof, Pedrecki, Michael Daugherty.

Since 2007, he has been teaching at Summer Training Courses during the International Music Festival in Portogruaro.

He has taught at Imola Music Academy, at Venice Conservatory,  and at Castelfranco Veneto’s Conservatoire, “Agostino Steffani”. Currently, he is a teacher at the Tomadini Conservatory of Udine and teaches at the Dedalo music school in Novara.  He is regularly called to hold masterclasses in Italy and Germany. He plays a German cello from the 20th century and a small five-string cello from the 19th century.

  course dates:  4 ? 9 Agosto 2026

course description: 

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