Fondazione Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo e Torino

Ivan Rabaglia, born in 1971, has been the violinist of the Trio di Parma since its foundation in 1990. He graduated with top marks, cum laude and honorable mention from the “A. Boito” Conservatory of his city and perfected his skills with Franco Gulli, Stefan Gheorghiu, Giuliano Carmignola, Pavel Vernikov, Ilya Grubert, Zinaida Gilels, the Trio di Trieste (Dario De Rosa, Renato Zanettovich, Amedeo Baldovino) and with Isaac Stern at the Chamber Music Workshop in New York. Together with his colleagues of the Trio, Alberto Miodini and Enrico Bronzi, he won the 1st prize at the 16th Vittorio Gui International Competition in Florence in 1992, the 2nd prize at the 2nd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 1995, the 2nd prize at the 47th Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD München in 1998 (1st not awarded), the 1st prize at the 1st Concours International du Musique de Chambre de Lyon in 2004 and was awarded the “Abbiati” prize by the Italian music critics in 1994. The activity carried out with the Trio has led Ivan Rabaglia to play for the most important Italian and foreign musical institutions: Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, Società del Quartetto in Milan, Amici della Musica in Florence, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Unione Musicale in Turin, Amici della Musica in Palermo, Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle Molière in Lyon, Performance Arts Center in Moscow, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and international festivals including Lockenhaus (Austria), Luzern (Switzerland), Melbourne (Australia), Sligo (Ireland), Lake District (England), Bad Kissingen (Germany), Cartagena (Colombia), Orta and Portogruaro (Italy). He has played with illustrious musicians including Bruno Giuranna, Simonide Braconi, Simone Briatore, Alessandro Carbonare, Fabrizio Meloni, Eduard Brunner, Guglielmo Pellarin, Wolfgang Holzmair and as a soloist with conductors such as Vladimir Delman, Angelo Campori, Carl Melles, Franco Petracchi, Hubert Soudant and Anton Nanut. In addition to numerous radio recordings for the most important Italian, English, German, American and Australian broadcasters, his recording activity includes the complete Brahms Trios and Op. 65 by Dvořák for UNICEF, the complete trios and the Triple Concerto by Beethoven, the Trio and Sonatas by Ravel, the sonata and the guitar trio by Giuliani for the magazine Amadeus, the world premiere recording of the quartets by De Fossa, the Histoire du Tango by Piazzolla, the Trios and Romances by Shostakovich for the Stradivarius label with which he won the award for best album of the year 2008 by the magazine Classic Voice, the complete trio works by Pizzetti, Liszt, Schumann and Dvorak for the Concerto label, Schubert for Decca and the Tchaikovsky trio, live recording at the Wigmore Hall in London, for the Movimento Classical label. He has taught chamber music at the International School of the Trio di Trieste in Duino and at the School of Fiesole. Already a violin professor at the “Vecchi-Tonelli” Music Institute in Modena, he continued his teaching activity at the “Guido Cantelli” Conservatory in Novara, at the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory in Parma and currently at the “Santa Cecilia” National Academy in Rome. In addition to this prestigious position, he holds courses and masterclasses at the Academies of Biella, Pinerolo and Portogruaro. He plays a Giuseppe Baldantoni violin built in Ancona in 1850.