Anna D’Errico
Pianista
Biography
Anna D’Errico is an artist dedicated to the music of our time. She enjoys close working relationships with established and young composers, sharing ideas, premiering new works, and devoting herself to exchanges between art forms and interdisciplinary projects. Anna has performed in international venues, such as the Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, Wien Modern, Essen Philharmonie, Mozarteum Salzburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musica Strasbourg, June in Buffalo, Theatre la Fenice Venice, Heidelberger Frühling, Mito Art Tower Japan, Ultraschall Berlin, Parco della Musica Rome, CDMC Madrid, ZKM Karlsruhe, IGNM Bern and Basel, Cantiere di Montepulciano. Likewise, she has toured Europe and North America, making her debuts with prestigious orchestras that include Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, La Fenice di Venezia and Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto. She has closely worked with composers Helmut Lachenmann, Salvatore Sciarrino, Pierre Boulez, Enno Poppe, Georges Aperghis, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Rebecca Saunders, Helmut Oehring, and George Benjamin, to name a few; she has performed with conductors Peter Eötvös, Pierre Boulez, MatthiaBorn in Bari and was taught violin and viola by his father. Later he studied with Denes Zsigmondy at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Yair Kless at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv. In
2010, the Italian National Music Critics Association awarded Francesco with the Premio Abbiati as “Best Soloist” of the year. As soloist Mr. D’Orazio has performed in concerts in all
Europe, North and South America, Mexico, Australia, China and Japan. He has recorded for Decca, Hyperion, Opus 111/Naive, Stradivarius and Amadeus. Mr. D’Orazio has
performed at such major concert venues as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Berliner Philarmonie, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall
in London, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, New York University, the South Bank Center in London, the Centre de la Musique Baroque in Versailles, the Cervantino
Festival in Mexico, Buenos Aires, Instanbul, MiTo, Montpellier, Potsdam, Ravenna, Ravello, Urbino, Salzburg, Strasbourg, Stresa, Tanglewood, Venice Biennale. Mr. D’Orazio’s
large repertoire includes works from early music, as violinist in the original instrument ensemble L’Astrée of Turin, to classic, romantic and contemporary music. Indeed, he is a
favourite of many composers: he premiered violin and orchestra works by the composers Terry Riley, Brett Dean, Ivan Fedele, Michael Nyman, Michele dall’Ongaro, Vito Palumbo,
Maury Buchala, Marcello Panni, Fabio Vacchi, Gilberto Bosco, Marco Betta, Fabian Panisello and Valerio Sannicandro and also many chamber works. Luis De Pablo wrote for
D’Orazio his last violin work, “Per Violino”. For many years he worked with Luciano Berio, whose Divertimento for string trio he premiered at the Festival of Strasbourg, performing
Sequenza VIII at the Festivals of Salzbourg and Tanglewood and Corale for violin and orchestra at the Citè de la Musique in Paris and the Auditorium Nacional de Musica in Madrid
conducted by the composer. Mr D’Orazio has performed the UK premiere of “Electric Preludes” for electric 6 strings violin and orchestra by the Australian composer Brett Dean at
the Proms in London and the Italian premiere of the violin concertos by John Adams (“The Dharma at Big Sur” for electric 6 strings violin), Kaija Saariaho, Unsuk Chin, Luis De
Pablo, Michael Daugherty, Aaron jay Kernis and Michael Nyman (Violin Concerto n.1). Mr. D’Orazio has concertized with the London Symphony, Teatro alla Scala Philarmonic
Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City Philharmonic, Orchestre National Il de France, the Shangai Philarmonic, the Berliner Symphoniker, the RAI National Symphony
Orchestra, the Nagoya Philarmonic, the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Comunale Orchestra in Bologna, the Saarlandischer Rundfunk, the Timishoara
Philharmonic, the Teatro Petruzzelli Symphony Orchestra, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the Accademia Bizantina, the Academia Montis Regalis, Plural Ensemble in Madrid,
Ensemble Court-Circuite in Paris, the Reina Sofia Chamber Orchestra of Madrid conducted by Lorin Maazel, Hubert Soudant, Pascal Rophé, Luciano Berio, Ingo Metzmacher,
Sakari Oramo, Steven Mercurio, Daniel Kawka, Zuohang Chen, Aaron Jay Kernis, Ottavio Dantone, Arturo Tamayo and Hansjorg Schellenberger. Mr D’Orazio plays a violin by
Giuseppe Guarneri, “Comte de Cabriac”, Cremona 1711 and a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume made in Paris in 1863.s Pintscher, Lucas Vis, Ilan Volkov, Jean Deroyer, Marco Angius, Igor Dronov. A passionate chamber musician, she organized a duo project together with pianist Alfonso Alberti and enjoys collaborating with performers Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Uli Fussenegger, Ian Pace, Dimitri Vassilakis, and Marco Fusi. A founding member of Ensemble Interface, Anna has appeared with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Linea, Ensemble Algoritmo, Ensemble Icarus and recorded for the labels Wergo, Stradivarius, Raccanto, Ars Publica and CMC Canada. Anna has taught master classes for performers and composers in academic institutions such as Conservatoire du Quebec, Conservatoire de Montreal, University of Minnesota Duluth, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory di Singapore, Real Conservatorio Superior di Madrid, Sydney Conservatorium e University of Queensland. She leads educational projects embracing contemporary music and the arts, that have been distinguished by the “Leone d’argento” Prize at the Venice Biennale, and the Abbiati Prize for Education. She is a recipient of the Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt and of the Pianist/Composer Commissioning Project issued by the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music.