Alberto Martini

He graduated in the Conservatory of Music in Verona and then he specialized with Maestro Corrado Romano at the Conservatory in Geneva.
He has steady collaborations as a Concert Master in the most prestigious orchestras such as the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra (Milan), the Orchestra of Opera House in Rome, the Pomeriggi Musicali (Milan), the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, cooperating with the greatest conductors as for example Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Valery Gergiev, Dmitri Yurovsky, Myun Whun Chung, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Yuri Temirkanov etc.
Since 2006 Alberto Martini has been the artistic director and the first violin of I VIRTUOSI ITALIANI. With this orchestra he has performed in the most prestigious musical venues and in the most important festivals all over the world, collaborating with worldwide famous soloists.
Alberto Martini’s discography as a conductor and concertmaster includes more than 50 CDs for wellknown recording houses such as Deutsche Grammophone, Warner Classics-ERATO, Chandos, Emi, CPO, Naxos, Brillant, Dynamic, Verany and Tactus.
In December 2021 as leader of I VIRTUOSI ITALIANI he received the DIAPASON D'OR DE L'ANNEE 2021 for the CD WARNER CLASSICS - ERATO, entitled “AMICI & RIVALI”, dedicated to Rossini.
After having been employed as a professor of Violin at the Conservatories of Bolzano, Trento and Verona, he currently holds this position at the State Conservatory of Music “L. Marenzio” in Brescia.
He is frequently invited to hold Masterclasses in various Italian and foreign institutions, and in the past few years he has started an important collaboration with the TCU University of Fort Worth in Texas (USA), home to the prestigious Van Cliburn music competition.
He plays on a precious instrument made by Enrico Ceruti in Cremona in 1840.