ANDREA CICALESE

VIOLIN

Violinist Andrea Cicalese, born in Naples in 2005, is a rising star in Europe and the U.S., performing at venues like Berliner Philharmonie and Tonhalle Zürich. His 2024/2025 season features debuts at the Ravello Festival and Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, alongside collaborations with pianists Alexander Malofeev and Eric Lu.

A quickly rising presence in the musical world in Europe and in the United States, violinist Andrea Cicalese, was born in Naples, Italy, in 2005. Despite his young age, Andrea regularly performs in some of the most renowned concert halls in Germany, Italy, France, Austria, the Czech Republic and the United States of America, such as the Berliner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zürich, Kleinhans Music Hall of Buffalo or Gasteigand Herkulessaal in Munich, both as a soloist and recitalist.

The 2024/2025 season includes recitals in Europe with pianists Alexander Malofeev,Eric Lu, Filippo Gorini, Massimo Spada, a series of important Italian debuts (Ravello Festival, Lerici Music Festival, Festival della Tuscia, Associazione Opera
Prima di Lecce, Filarmonica Toscanini conducted by Jaume Santonja), his return to Germany as soloist at the Berliner Philharmonie with the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra, debuts at the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, at the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Mosel Musik Festival, as well as his debut as soloist, at the Isarphilharmonie in Munich with the Münchner Symphoniker conducted by Joseph Bastian. His travels to Switzerland will include a recital at Tonhalle Zürich, while in the Czech Republic, Andrea will make his recital debut at the Dvořák Prague International Music Festival and at the Plzeňská Filharmonie with the Pilsen Philharmonicconducted by their chief conductor, Chuhei Iwasaki.

During the 2024/2025 season, Andrea will also return to the United States of America making two separate trips: The first one as soloist, thanks to the invitation of conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, in order to perform the Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 82 by Alexander Glazunov and the second one as recitalist. Concurrently he will conduct a weeklong residency in Buffalo, NY, giving several recitals and a masterclass for students of the Conservatories of Western New York.

Previous notable concerts include his solo debut with the Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with the Prague Royal Philharmonic Orchestraconducted by Heiko Mathias Förster, which opened the PROMS 2023 summer season in Munich. He has also performed several times with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, performing violin concerti by Jean Sibelius and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

In October 2022, 'Pianist Magazine' (London, GB) thus reviewed his "historic world debut"(CMS Buffalo) in duo with Russian star pianist Alexander Malofeev in Buffalo, NY:

"The creative energy of the duo was more than the sum of its formidable parts. Violinist Andrea Cicalese brought an effortless command of communicative possibilities and natural charisma to the program of Beethoven, Schubert, and Grieg".

Andrea is also the youngest guest in the history of the film series 'Living the Classical Life'; with two appearances on the program, one in 2021 and one in 2023. In that very year Andrea furthermore became the first violinist in decades to play a public concert on the Ex-Menuhin 'Prince Khevenhüller Stradivarius' (Cremona, 1733). Currently he is performing on a violin built by Guarneri 'Del Gesú' (Cremona, 1731), the loan of which was made possible thanks to Music Masterpieces SA - Lugano (CH) in the context of the cultural and philanthropic initiative "Adopt a musician".  

He began studying the violin at the age of seven with Rudens Turku in Munich and at the age of eleven was the youngest student of the 'Perosi' Academy of Music in Biella, where he attended master classes with Ana Chumachenco. Since 2020 he has been studying with Josef Rissin at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music.