RomaToday 4 December 2023
Considered throughout the world one of the best cellists of his generation, as well as a cornerstone of European excellence such as the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Luigi Piovano will open a semester of great artistic intensity and natural eclecticism, which will will see him try his hand as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor on highly dense layouts and with musicians of clear fame and prestige, up to the Austrian and Italian tour on the podium of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra.
Piovano will arrive at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on December 13th, and then continue his tour in the rest of Italy.
From Pescare, with a father who was a pianist, composer and orchestra director, and therefore started his musical studies early, at three years old, hidden under his father’s piano during trio rehearsals with violin and cello, he fell madly in love with the sound of his future instrument. But at the time, instruments for children were still not easily available, so he cultivated his passion by stubbornly trying to play a toy guitar with a bow, until finally in a second-hand shop his parents found him a cello that wasn’t his size, but quite small. to be able to really begin: from that moment Luigi Piovano’s tireless race towards excellence began, starting from the very early entry into the conservatory with special admission for ‘exceptional talent’, to the desire already at 15 years old to find his ideal ‘school’ , finally identified in the knowledge of the great Romanian master Radu Aldulesco.
“Not only a master of music, but also a master of life, a second father for me” comments Piovano “To him I owe my belonging to that bow school of noble ancestry which today unfortunately risks being lost”. Finally, admission with a merit scholarship to the Menuhin Academy in Gstaad, the nerve center that allowed him to come into contact with the great generation of twentieth-century masters, from Menuhin to Lysy, Rostropovich, Magalov and Stern, while already from the age of For 12 years he performed in solo concerts and in chamber ensembles. At just 20 years old he began working as first cello in the orchestra, first at the San Carlo, then in Barcelona, at the Coruna, then returning home the dive into ancient music with original instruments with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini, finally at 27 years old in In 1996 he joined the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, his second home for 27 years and the place where, in very close contact with conductors such as Gatti, Chung, Pappano, Sawallisch, Temirkanov, Giulini, Maazel, returns to retrace the very strong stimuli received from his father during childhood, the early readings of complex scores, the direction of the string orchestra in the living room with his father at the spinet, but obviously from the height of a very different intellectual awareness, cultural and professional.
“It was working alongside these great conductors that pushed me to open the scores with a new spirit, with the desire to delve deeper into them as I saw them do, in search of something that is not immediately evident. But I was aware that to start I had to find a gym and if the gym wasn’t there, I had to create it myself. So I founded, as director and patron of myself and my boys and with the help of some friends and patrons, a youth string orchestra in Pompeii, where I knew there were many young talents who however needed to be looked after and made to grow.” . An apparent madness and from a financial point of view a confessed failure, but artistically, humanly and ethically it worked: “‘My boys’ now all work as professionals and this in itself would be enough to make me say that it was worth it It’s worth it, but I must also add that this experience has truly allowed me to grow as a director without haste, without presumption, without ever biting off more than I can chew, giving me the right amount of time to be able to aspire to something else at the right time.”
Today Piovano reaps the fruits of a career built on a natural talent cultivated with millimetric precision and inexhaustible passion for decades, without ever giving in or dangerous personalistic temptations, in the shadow of Music and for Music.
2023-12-04 15:21:55
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