International Klaipėda David Geringas Cello Competition 2023 - Group D PRO

Luca Giovannini

Luca Giovannini (2000)

| Italy

Kronberg Academy

Professor | Frans Helmerson

Accompanist | Mikhail Mordvinov

Luca Giovannini is a prize winner of J. Brahms Competition (2018, 1st prize and the Audience Award, Austria), Janigro Young Competition (2012, 2nd prize), etc. He graduated from the “F. Venezze” Conservatory (Luca Simoncini) in 2017, attended master classes with Gidon Kremer, David Geringas, Ivan Monighetti and Mario Brunello, etc. He holds scholarship from the Boris Pergamenschikow at the Kronberg Academy, where he currently studies with Frans Helmerson. Luca has performed with "I Virtuosi Italiani" and the City Philaharmonic of Tokyo among others, appeared in Musikverein in Vienna, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Carnegie Hall, Opera House Harbin (China), etc., taken part in numerous national and international festivals as the Seiji Ozawa Accademy, the Gstaadt Menuhin festival and the Cellofest in Finland.

I ROUND

  • Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite No. 4 · E flat major · BWV 1010
    • Prelude
    • Sarabande
    • Gigue
  • George Crumb | Sonata for Solo Cello
  • II ROUND

  • Claude Debussy | Sonata for Cello and Piano · D minor · L. 135
  • Anatolijus Šenderovas | Sonata for Cello and Piano
  • Johannes Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 2 · F major · Op. 99
    • I. Allegro vivace
  • III ROUND

  • Zoltán Kodály | Sonata for Solo Cello · B minor · Op. 8
    • I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato
  • Franz Joseph Haydn | Cello Concerto No. 2 · D major · Hob. VIIb:2
  • Language