Alessio Bidoli

Alessio Bidoli (born 1986) is an Italian violinist.[1]

Alessio Bidoli
Background information
Born1986
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Violinist
Instrument(s)Violin
LabelsSony Classical
Universal Classics and Jazz
Decca Records
Warner Classics
Websitewww.alessiobidoli.com

Biography

His father is a doctor and his mother, Domenica Regazzoni, is a painter and a sculptor.

Since he was a child, Bidoli had hung out at the manifacture of stringed instruments of his grandfather, Dante Paolo Regazzoni, a luthier operating in the second half of the twentieth century in his laboratory in Cortenova, in Valsassina.[2] In this shop, Bidoli learnt the first rudiments of music and started to play his grandfather's violins.[3] [4] As a child he was already directed towards the study of music, enrolling him in the violin course at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, where his first teacher was Gigino Maestri. In 2003 he performed in a concert as a soloist at the Teatro Signorelli in Cortona,[5] with a repertoire of classical music. The following year, he was one of the winners of the National String Festival of Vittorio Veneto. His training course at the Conservatory in Milan where Bidoli gained a diploma with top marks cum laude in 2006.[5][6] He continued with various specialization courses at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne and then at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Pierre Amoyal. Furthermore he attended a specialization course at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Salvatore Accardo[5][7]and then another one at the Accademia Internazionale di Imola with Pavel Berman and Oleksandr Semchuk .

Career

He has performed and collaborated with Bruno Canino,[8] with whom he has recorded a number of albums.[5][9] He has featured with Vittorio Sgarbi in the theatre project Il Fin la Maraviglia, an account of the Baroque age via images and sounds, which was performed at the theatre in Chiasso (Switzerland) in 2015.[10] In April 2009, he developed a viral infection that led to his becoming tetraplegic, due to Guillain-Barré syndrome, but succeeded in playing the violin again two years later.[11] Bidoli has appeared as guest artist in radio broadcasts on Radio France, NDR Kultur, Radio Svizzera Italiana and Rai Radio 3.[12] After teaching for some years at the Conservatory Francesco Cilea in Reggio Calabria, he is currently a violin teacher at the Conservatory Niccolò Piccinni in Bari. He regularly holds masterclasses for violin and chamber music in various Italian cities and is the art director of Musica in Corte Festival in Crema.

Musical repertoire

Since a few years ago, in collaboration with Bruno Canino,[13][14] Bidoli has recovered some unpublished works written by composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns and Luís de Freitas Branco,[15] drawing people's attention on these authors. Bidoli has performed a huge repertorire of classical music that ranges from classical authors such as Camille Saint-Saëns[16][17] [18] to Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij, Francis Poulenc, Sergej Sergeevič Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel[19][20] and to almost forgotten artists of the music of the late 19th century who, through the paraphrases of Camillo Sivori and Antonio Bazzini, brought Verdi's opera into the living rooms;[21][22][23][24] and to unpublished or rarely performed musical pieces of 20th century composed by Goffredo Petrassi, Gian Francesco Malipiero and Alfredo Casella,[25] up to the lesser-known chamber music repertoire by Nino Rota, up to the compositions, almost unknown outside the borders of Portugal, by the composer Luis De Freitas Branco.

Instruments

Bidoli owns some musical instruments. During his concerts, he plays a violin made by Stefano Scarampella and one made by his grandfather.

Recordings

A selection of Bidoli's recorded output[9][26] includes;

  • 2022: with Bruno Canino (piano), Alain Meunier (cello) - Freitas Branco Complete Violin Sonatas and Piano Trio, Sony Classical[27]
  • 2021: with Stefania Mormone (piano) - Saint-Saëns / Wieniawski / Grieg / Ponce / Elgar / Debussy (reissue), Da Vinci Classics [28]
  • 2020: with Bruno Canino (piano), Massimo Mercelli (flute) and Nicoletta Sanzin (harp) - Rota Chamber Works, Decca - Universal Music Group
  • 2019: with Bruno Canino - Verdi Fantasias (reissue), Concerto Classics
  • 2018: with Bruno Canino - Saint Saëns Violin Sonatas, Warner Classics
  • 2017: with Bruno Canino - Poulenc, Ravel, Stravinskij, Prokofiev, Warner Classics
  • 2016: with Bruno Canino - Italian Soul - Anima italiana, Sony Classical
  • 2013: with Bruno Canino (piano) - Verdi: Fantasias for Violin and Piano, Sony Classical
  • 2011: with Stefania Mormone (piano) - Saint-Saëns / Wieniawski / Grieg / Ponce / Elgar / Debussy (reissue), Amadeus magazine [29]

References
  1. "Il talento peschierese Alessio Bidoli si esibirà al Teatro Cinema De Sica" [The talent of Pesaro Alessio Bidoli will perform at the Teatro Cinema De Sica]. 7giorni (in Italian). Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  2. Vitulli, Stefania (14 January 2008). "Nonno, figlia e nipote e un'unica passione: quella per il violino". Il Giornale.
  3. Chiari, Elisa (18 August 2013). "Corpo a corpo con il violino". Famiglia Cristiana.
  4. Bauzano, Gianluca (14 February 2014). "Nel nido di nonno Dante ho scoperto le note e la vita". SETTE - Corriere della sera.
  5. "Alessio Bidoli: discografia, biografia, album e vinili". Universal music. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  6. Sguben, Nicoletta (23 February 2011). "Il violino ritrovato" [The violin found]. Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  7. "Schedule" (PDF). Mito. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  8. Bauzano, Gianluca. "Bruno Canino, 82 anni e Alessio Bidoli, 32, suonano insieme". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  9. "Alessio Bidoli". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  10. Morotti, Davide. "Il fin la maraviglia". luganoeventi. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  11. Schiavi, Giangiacomo (21 December 2017). "Alessio e il violino del nonno" [Alessio and his grandfather's violin]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  12. "la musica per violino e pianoforte di Saint-Saens" [Saint-Saens violin and piano music]. RaiPlay Radio (in Italian). Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  13. Sclocchis, Luisa (1 December 2018). "Un mostro sacro per amico". Suonare News.
  14. Bauzano, Gian Luca (9 November 2018). "Due età in scena,Bruno Canino 82 anni e Alessio Bidoli 32 anni suonano insieme. Conta il divario anagrafico?". Liberi Tutti - Corriere della sera.
  15. "L'aristocratica discrezione musicale di Luís de Freitas Branco". musicvoice.it.
  16. Gavazzeni, Giovanni (8 November 2018). "Omaggio a Saint Saëns". Il Giornale.
  17. Rossi, Sara (22 November 2018). "In un cd tutto Saint Saëns per violino e pianoforte con il duo Bidoli-Canino". Amadeus Magazine.
  18. Segalla, Luca. "Alessio Bidoli interpreta Saint-Saëns nel suo quarto CD con Bruno Canino". Archi Magazine.
  19. Mattietti, Gianluigi (2017). "Poulenc, Ravel, Stravinskij, Prokofiev". Classical Voices.
  20. Lawalrée, Dominique (5 July 2018). "Un très bon programme d'oeuvres de la 1ère moitié du 20e siècle". Crescendo Magazine.
  21. Mangiarotti, Marco (26 June 2013). "Verdi è in duo Colpi d'archetto e pianoforte Bidoli & Canino". Il Giorno.
  22. Viazzo, Massimo (2018). "Bazzini, Fantasia su temi tratti da i Masnadieri, La Traviata ; Sivori Fantasia su temi tratti da Il Trovatore , Il Ballo in maschera". Musica 249.
  23. Bianchi, Stefano (12 December 2014). "Bidoli e Canino esplorano pagine per violino dell'800". Il Piccolo di Trieste.
  24. Gavazzeni, Giovanni (12 February 2019). "Musica e pittura esaltano il melodramma". Il Giornale.
  25. Riva, Alberto (8 April 2016). "Petrassi, Malipiero…La storia ( del '900) è nota". Il Venerdì di La Repubblica.
  26. "Per Decca Italy è uscito il nuovo album del violinista Alessio Bidoli" (in Italian).
  27. "Alessio Bidoli,Bruno Canino,Alain Meunier『Freitas Branco - Complete Violin Sonatas and Piano Trio』 | TOWER RECORDS MUSIC（音楽サブスクサービス） - 1020624286".
  28. "DA VINCI PUBLISHINGSaint-Saens, Grieg, Wieniawski, Elgar, Ponce, Debussy: Le Violon Capricieux Violin Sonatas and Encores". 8 June 2021.
  29. "Alessio Bidoli. Un virtuoso dall'Italian Soul".
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