Massimo Paris

Massimo Paris (* 1953 in Rome ) is an Italian violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher.

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Massimo Paris studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, where he graduated with top grades in the subjects of viola , composition and conducting . In addition, he deepened his musical skills at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena , at the Conservatory in Geneva , at the Prussia Cove International Music Seminar in England and as part of the Hindemith Foundation in Blonay . His most important teachers were Bruno Giuranna in viola, Franco Ferrara in conducting, Irma Ravinale in composition and Riccardo Brengola and Sándor Végh in chamber music.

The concert career that followed after his training led Massimo Paris both as a soloist with the viola and the viola d'Amore and as a conductor to major concert halls around the world. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City , La Scala in Milan , the Sydney Opera House and the Paris Opera , the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , the Berlin Philharmonie and the Leipzig Gewandhaus .

As a chamber musician, Massimo Paris was a member of the I Virtuosi di Roma chamber orchestra and, since 1978, the I Musici di Roma , and in 1994 was one of the co-founders of the Stradivari String Quartet. During his concerts he performed with well-known musicians such as Pepe Romero , Menahem Pressler , Peter Lukas Graf , Boris Mironowitsch Pergamenschtschikow , Christian Zacharias and many others. His repertoire ranged from baroque music to contemporary music . Numerous worldwide invitations to guest appearances as a soloist at various international music festivals followed.

After Paris was one of the founders of the Accademia Musicale Italiana in 1986, in 2003 he was appointed first conductor and artistic director of the Concerto Málaga Orchestra, which focuses on the music of Spanish composers. In the same function, he was also invited several times for the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada and as a guest conductor at renowned concert halls in Europe, Asia and South America.

As a composer, Massimo Paris made mainly through his cadences of the violin concertos by Alessandro Rolla and the 18 cadenzas on the work L'Arte del Violino; XII ConcertI Cioè, violino solo, con XXIV Capricci ad libitum by Pietro Locatelli attracted attention.

Paris received an appointment as full professor for viola and viola d'Amore as well as chamber music from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome as well as from the University of Music and Dance Cologne , Aachen department. In addition, he holds numerous master classes at home and abroad.

Numerous invitations from various radio and television stations around the world as well as several CD recordings also confirm his international reputation. Paris plays a rare violin made by Giovanni Paolo Maggini in Brescia around 1600 .

Discography (selection)

• Chamber music for oboe and strings by WA Mozart, JM Haydn and JC Bach, Denon-Electronic, Ratingen 1987
• Concerto for viola d'Amore, strings and basso continuo by Antonio Vivaldi, Polygram-Musik-Vertrieb, Hamburg 1989
• Concert selection by Antonio Vivaldi, Polygram-Musik-Vertrieb Hamburg 1990
• Concert for guitar and viola d'Amore by Antonio Vivaldi, Polygram-Musik-Vertrieb, Hamburg 1992
• Viola concertos by Alessandro Rolla and cadences by Massimo Paris, Polygram-Musik-Vertrieb, Hamburg 1995
• Romero, music by various composers for single instruments and chamber orchestra, Polygram-Musik-Vertrieb, Hamburg 1998

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia