Giovanni Gnocchi

Following his debut in a concert alongside Yo-Yo Ma in a concerto for two cellos and orchestra, Giovanni Gnocchi has appeared as a soloist under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Christopher Hogwood, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Alexander Lonquich, Alexander Shelley, Carlo Rizzi, Enrico Bronzi, Aram Khakheh, Daniele Giorgi and Daniele Agiman, from the Hong Kong Arts Festival to the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Liederhalle in Stuttgart and the Mozart Week in Salzburg, with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Italian Youth Orchestra, the Filarmonica della Fenice in Venice, the Rossini Orchestra of Pesaro and the Streicherakademie Bozen.
Upcoming engagements include Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms’ Double Concerto with Anna Tifu, the Toscanini Philharmonic and Joel Sandelson, his debut as soloist and conductor with I Solisti di Zagabria, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in Lugano with Marco Rizzi and Adrian Oetiker and with the North Czech Philharmonic at Smetana Hall in Prague, Shostakovich’s First Concerto with OFUNAM and Iván López Reynoso, the complete concertos of Michael and Franz Joseph Haydn in Italy and in Salzburg with the Philharmonie Salzburg and Elisabeth Fuchs, the two concertos by Nino Rota, and the Italian premieres of works by Mieczysław Weinberg.
A passionate chamber musician, he has performed with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky, played with Leonidas Kavakos, Mario Brunello and members of the Hagen Quartet, in duos with Andrea Lucchesini and Alexander Lonquich, and with Ilya Gringolts, Alena Baeva, Vadym Kholodenko and Olli Mustonen at the Lucerne Festival, the Ark-Nova Concert Hall in Japan, the Casals Festival in Prades, the Radio-France Festival in Montpellier, the Verbier Festival, the Delft Music Festival in the Netherlands, the Järna Music Festival in Sweden, the Ilumina Festival in Brazil, the KotorArt Festival in Montenegro, the Musikdorf Ernen Festival in Switzerland, and the Ljubljana Cello Fest. He has given chamber music concerts at the Esplanade in Singapore and a solo recital at Hong Kong City Hall for the Hong Kong International Cello Association.