Vincenzo Bolognese

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Vincenzo Bolognese was born in Lecce in 1966. He was a pupil first of his father and then of Felix Ayo. He took his diploma in violin and chamber music with the highest possible marks and special merit at the Conservatory of St. Cecilia and the National Academy of St. Cecilia. He then continued his studies with Salvatore Accardo, Riccardo Brengola, and Pierluigi Urbini.
Bolognese has won a large number of prestigious prizes in national competitions, including the "Curci" prize (Naples, 1985) and the "Paganini" prize (Genoa, 1987). In 1988 he was invited to give a recital in Palazzo Tursi with the violin which Paganini himself used and he has also been awarded the "Plateo d’Oro" prize for artistic merit. He has played with such important musical institutions as the Teatro San Carlo of Naples, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the "Scarlatti" Orchestra of Naples, the Warsaw Symphony

Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the Maggio Musicale of Florence. He has played under such famous conductors as Accardo, Aronovic, Ferro, H.W.Menze, Maag, Plasson, Sinopoli, Stern, and Urbini. He has also performed for many national radio and television corporations - in Italy, France, Germany, Monte Carlo, and the Vatican. In 1990 he was awarded the gold medal of the international association "Foyer des Artistes".
Vincenzo Bolognese with the Mattia Albani violin. At the present time he is first violin of the National Academy of St. Cecilia symphony orchestra. He has organised the recording of a large number of pieces by Paganini for Boccacini and Spadaed (in CD), the "sei sonate di Ysaye per violino solo", all of Heifetz’s transcriptions for violin and pianoforte, and a monograph by Tartini for Promozione e Produzione. For Bongiovanni he made a world premier recording of the "concerto in A major" by Respighi which he then prepared for public issue. He plays a "Mattia Albani" violin which was made at the end of the eighteenth century.