Trio David
Biographie Trio David
Quartetto Eos
Formed in 2016 at the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome, the Quartetto Eos immediately caught
the attention of the musical world for the freshness and depth of its interpretations, winning in 2018 the "Premio Farulli" awarded by the Italian Music Critics as part of the 'Premio Franco Abbiati'.
The ensemble has already achieved important successes in international competitions, such as the 1º prize at the Orpheus Competition in Winterthur (2020), at the International String Quartet Competition "Premio Paolo Borciani" in Reggio Emilia (2024), the Anton Rubinstein International Competition in Düsseldorf (2019), the Sergio Dragoni Competition in Milan (2019).
In 2023, he is a semi-finalist at the 77th edition of the prestigious Geneva Competition.
The Eos Quartet regularly plays for important musical institutions throughout Europe such as the Società del Quartetto in Milan, the Davos Festival, the IUC (Rome), the Filarmonica Romana, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Flagey in Brussels, Musikdorf Ernen, the Scarlatti Association of Naples, the Philharmonie de Paris, Ticino Musica, the Swiss Foundation of Basel and others.
He also frequently collaborates with musicians of the calibre of Calogero Palermo (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Gustavo Nuñez (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Jerusalem Quartet, Cremona Quartet, Enrico Pace, Aron Chiesa (Teatro alla Scala), Enrico Dindo and others.
He is currently attending the Master in Chamber Music 'The Ebène Academy' at the Hochschule
für Musik und Theater München with the Ebène Quartet and regularly attends masterclasses with Alfred Brendel, Corina Belcea (Belcea Quartet), Eckart Runge, Patrick Jüdt (ECMA), Lawrence Dutton (Emerson Quartet), Isabel Charisius (Alban Berg Quartet), Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) and the Jerusalem Quartet.
In addition, between 2017 and 2020 he attended the masterclass for string quartet at
the Stauffer Academy in Cremona in the class of
Quartetto di Cremona.
Since July 2022 he has been appointed 'Artist in Residence' at the prestigious Singer- Polignac Foundation in Paris under the recommendation of Pierre Colombet, first violin of the Quartet Ébène.
The ensemble was several times a guest on radio programmes on Rai Radio3, "SRF 2 Kultur" and on Rai 5, TV channel Rai 1.
In 2022, there debut album was released, entirely produced and financed by Da Vinci Records, featuring pieces by Janacek, Mendelssohn and Webern.
In 2024 a CD of music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari will be released, financed by COOP ART in Rome,
organised by the Accademia degli Sfaccendati and produced by the 'Brilliant Classic' label, and between 2024/2025 he will be engaged in the recording of the complete quintets with piano and string quartets by G. Sgambati with the Tactus label.
They currently maintains active collaborations with several living composers, including Filippo Del Corno, Who dedicated one of his latest works to the ensemble.
The Quartet in 2024/2025 will be engaged in a European tour having been selected to
be part of the prestigious MERITA project, run by the Association 'Le Dimore del Quartetto', of
of which he has been an artist since 2017, and among other debuts, he will play in the main season of the Società del Quartetto di Milano at the prestigious Sala Verdi.
Matteo Rocchi
was born in Rome on 2 August 1990 and began studying the violin at the age of 10 with Maestro De Rossi.
At the age of 14 he entered the conservatory under the guidance of M° Paris and subsequently of M° Burton under whom he graduated in 2012 with top marks, also winning the A.Giannuzzi scholarship as the best graduate of the year. He holds a classical high school diploma.
He actively attends the Masters of Masters M. Burton, M ° Paris, M ° B. Giuuranna and since 2011 of M ° S. Girshenko at important associations such as Accademia Stauffer, Chigiana and FIAMPSE.
In 2007 he won the audition to join the Italian youth orchestra and the EUYO, winning the scholarship from the Fiesole school.
He has collaborated with important orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, "I Solisti Aquilani", the Regional Orchestra of Calabria "Paolo Serrao", the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, the orchestra of the municipal theater of Bologna (of the latter three holding the role of first viola). In 2013 he won first prize in national and international competitions as a soloist (Riviera Etrusca and Crescendo prize), in which he also won the prize as best violist of the competition. In the contemporary field since 2013 he has held the role of solo viola in the Imago Sonora group, making his debut in the summer concert season of the Filarmonica academy. He performs with them for the most important contemporary music festivals in the environment such as "Emu Fest", "Nuova Consonanza" and "Play it".
In 2011 he founded a duo with the pianist Alessandro Viale with whom he has studied at the Fiesole Academy since 2012 under the guidance of the masters P. Vernikov, B. Canino, Trio di Parma, N. Gutman and A. Lucchesini, winning the scholarship as the best formation and with which he distinguished himself in various national and international competitions (first prize in the Crescendo and Riviera Etrusca competitions, second prize in the Rospigliosi competition).
In 2012 he entered the W. Stauffer Academy under the guidance of Maestro B. Giuranna.
He has actively collaborated with the Agimus since 2012, performing solo recitals in various concert seasons in important halls such as the experimental theater of Ancona, the La Mortella gardens for the Walton Foundation in Ischia, Castel Sant'Angelo, Villa Giulia, the Alfredo Casella hall, fresco room for the Roman Philharmonic.
In 2014, 2015 and 2016 she performed on the occasion of the “Omaggio A Cremona” in chamber ensembles collaborating with great masters such as F. Petracchi and S. Accardo.
Since 2015 he has been the violist of the Guadagnini quartet with which he performs in important halls such as the Bellini Theater in Catania, the “Alfredo Piatti” Hall in Bergamo, the Ponchielli Theater, the Arvedi Auditorium and playing in important festivals such as the “Festival dei Due Mondi” in Spoleto.
