ANDREA CICALESE

violin

Born in Naples, Italy, in 2005, violinist Andrea Cicalese is a rising star in the international music scene. He has performed at prestigious venues such as the Berliner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zürich, and New York’s Kleinhans Music Hall, captivating audiences as a soloist and recitalist. The 2024/2025 season highlights include debuts at the Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, and Mosel Music Festivals, as well as with the Munich Symphony. Andrea has collaborated with acclaimed pianists like Alexander Malofeev and Eric Lu. Performing on a 1731 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin, Andrea combines technical brilliance with profound artistry, establishing himself as a leading young musician.

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 regurarly 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 Isarphilharmonie and 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, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Concerti del Quirinale, Fondazione Riccitelli), his return to Germany as soloist at the Berliner Philharmonie, debuts at the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, at the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Mosel Musikfestival, as well as his debut with the Munich Symphony at Isarphilharmonie and his debut as soloist at Prinzregententheater.

During the 2024/2025 season, Andrea will also return to the United States of America making three seperate 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 and third one as recitalist in New York City and in Buffalo, where he will concurrently conduct a weeklong residency, giving several recitals and a masterclass for students of the Conservatories of Western New York and more.

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 Orchestra conducted by Heiko Mathias Förster, which opened the PROMS 2023 summer season in Munich and his debut as soloist in Plzen with Glazunov's Violin Concerto. He has also played 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" with pianist Alexander Malofeev in the United States of America.

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).