GIOVANNI RADIVO

Giovanni Radivo was born in Verona in 1969. After completing his studies in the conservatory of his hometown with the highest honours, he graduated from the Geneva Conservatoire Supérieur under the guidance of Corrado Romano and from the Utrecht Hochschule where he studied with Philippe Hirshhorn. He enriched his musical education by studying with Salvatore Accardo, Giuliano Carmignola, Dora Schwartzberg, Victor Liberman, Charles-André Linale, Keiko Wataya and Hermann Krebbers. He has served as concertmaster of the Haydn Orchestra, Bolzano, the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, where he worked with conductors such as Muti, Mehta, Giulini, Sawallisch, Chailly, Chung, Sinopoli and Pappano. He has worked as guest leader with the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, Rome, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, among others. As a soloist he has performed with the Arena Orchestra, Verona, the Haydn Orchestra, Bolzano, the Orchestra da camera di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestre d’Auvergne, the Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse, and the Orchestre National de Lyon, of which last he has been concertmaster since 1999.