Roberto Michelucci
Biography Roberto Michelucci
Roberto Michelucci
is well known all over the world. Many of his best interpretations arerecorded on Philips Lps with which he has won some of the highest awards. He often takes part in International Festivals and was the first Italian violinist to he invited in 1967 and 1968 by the Salzburger Festspiele to perform two Mozart Concertos. K.V. 219 and K.V. 211. The first
concert was filmed by the Austrian television and later transmitted by all the European televisions except Italy. His repertoire includes music from the baroque period to the modern. He presented L. Dallapiccola's two "Tartiniana" for violin and orchestra for the first time in Israel; the first performance of Busoni's violin concerto with the Orchestre Suisse Romande in Geneva; for the first time in Florence at the "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" the following concertos: Prokofieff Op. 19, Schumann D minor, Mendelssohn D minor. High levelled critics like F. Abbiati (Milan), M. Mila (Turin), B. Gavoty (Paris), E. Moser (Lausanne). E. Muller-Moore (Geneva), J. Hawranek (Salzburg), H. Boehm (Jerusalem), C. Wilson (Edinburgh) have expressed their admiration for him. His records have won the following awards: "Grand Prix du Disque" for three years in Paris "Prix de la Critique Francaise" Paris "Golden Record" Tokio. He often takes part in Juries for international competitions. Now he is recording for Fone, concluding the six Bach-Solo Sonatas and Partitas.
