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Lorenzo Gatto, born in Brussels on December 2, 1986, is a Belgian violinist, 2nd prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in 2009.
Lorenzo Gatto began studying the violin at the age of 5. From the age of 12, he joined the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels in the class of Véronique Bogaerts, where at 17 he obtained the higher diploma in violin with the highest distinction2. He then went on to perfect his skills with Herman Krebbers in the Netherlands, Augustin Dumay at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium and Boris Kuschnir (Kunstuniversität in Graz and Conservatoire in Vienna). He has also worked with great musicians such as Salvatore Accardo, Zakhar Bron, Pamela Frank (en), Robert Mann (en), Midori Seiler (de), Seiji Ozawa, Julian Rachlin, etc.
Having been elected Rising Stars 2010-2011, Gatto made his recital debut on the biggest European stages such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, or even in Athens, Baden-Baden, Barcelona, Birmingham, Cologne, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Newcastle and Stockholm. In Belgium, he has become an essential artist at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (le Bozar) (artist in residence during the 2010-2011 season) and at Flagey in Brussels, as well as on the country's other main musical stages. He is regularly invited as a soloist by the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders (deFilharmonie), the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia. In recent seasons, Gatto has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Gelders Orkest, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Moscow Virtuosi, State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia", the National Radio Orchestra of Romania… Outside of Europe, Lorenzo Gatto has also recently performed in Japan, South Korea, the United States and Abu Dhabi. Gatto has thus performed as a soloist under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus, Augustin Dumay, Sascha Goetzel, P. Goodwin, Philippe Herreweghe, Emmanuel Krivine, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vassili Sinaïski, Vladimir Spivakov, Jaap van Zweden, G. Varga, Walter Weller ...
Lorenzo Gatto has also assumed the artistic direction of several original productions with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (Kamerorkest).
In chamber music, his most regular partners were Roberto Giordano (piano), Denis Kozhukhin (piano), Julien Libeer (piano), Éliane Reyes (piano), Denis Sungho (guitar), Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (piano) or again, Camille Thomas (cello) and Beatrice Berrut (piano) within the Trio Saint-Exupéry. In a more experimental field, Gatto appeared in front of 50,000 spectators in the open air during the festival "Un violon sur le sable" in Royan 2011. In addition, he formed with his violinist friends Hrachya Avanesyan and Yossif Ivanov an offbeat trio called Trilogy .
From 2015, Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer (piano) began recording Beethoven's sonatas under the Alpha Classics label. In 2016, their first opus won the "Diapason d´Or of the year 2016". They then record a second and third opus. This latest CD will be released in November 2019 and will mark the end of the recording of Beethoven's complete violin and piano sonatas.
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