Eugenio Della Chiara

Born in Pesaro, Eugenio Della Chiara graduated at the age of nineteen with highest honours from the Conservatory of his hometown, where he studied under Giuseppe Ficara. Among his teachers were Andrea Dieci and Oscar Ghiglia, with whom he furthered his studies at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.

Among the awards he has received are two scholarships from the Rossini Foundation, awarded in 2008 and 2010, making him the first musician ever to receive this distinction more than once. Alongside his musical studies, he pursued a humanistic education at the Catholic University of Milan, earning degrees first in Classical Literature and later in Modern Philology.

His concert activity has taken him throughout Europe, Japan, and Canada; in Italy he has performed for some of the country’s leading musical institutions, including the Società del Quartetto di Milano, Musica Insieme Bologna, the Festival della Valle d’Itria, the Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini in Naples, the Società dei Concerti di Parma, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.

As a soloist, he has appeared with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, and the Orchestra Senzaspine, collaborating with conductors such as Diego Ceretta, Jordi Bernàcer, Matteo Parmeggiani, and Tohar Gil. Alongside concertos by Rodrigo and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, his repertoire also includes a concert overture dedicated to him by Carlo Galante and the version for guitar and orchestra of Moreno Torroba’s Sonatina, which he performed in its Italian premiere on 13 July 2023 in Palermo.

Between 2018 and 2020 he recorded three albums for DECCA: Schubert – A Portrait on Guitar, recorded on instruments built in Vienna in the early nineteenth century; Guitarra Clásica, an anthology of transcriptions from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; and Paganini Live, recorded live with Piercarlo Sacco. In 2024 his first album for Naxos was released, devoted to the complete works for guitar by Gaspar Cassadó and Frederic Mompou, while in 2025 he recorded, for the same label, the complete Danzas españolas by Enrique Granados in a guitar duo with Pietro Locatto.

Composers from different generations — including Orazio Sciortino, Carlo Galante, and Paolo Ugoletti — have dedicated more than twenty solo and chamber works to him. He has also made several world premiere recordings, among which the recording of the Sonata for Guitar composed by Luciano Chailly in 1976 stands out.

A passionate chamber musician, he performs with violinist Piercarlo Sacco, pianist Alberto Chines, and guitarist Andrea Dieci. Together with Pietro Locatto he forms the Azulejos Guitar Duo, a project devoted to Spanish music composed between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. His deep familiarity with the vocal repertoire has led to regular collaborations with opera singers, notably mezzo-sopranos Raffaella Lupinacci and Teresa Iervolino, and tenors Juan Francisco Gatell and Mert Süngü. Together with Alessio Boni, he conceived Tutto il resto è silenzio, a reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet accompanied by seventeenth-century English music.

His interest in historically informed performance practice led him, in 2025, to begin a collaboration with Ensemble Aurora, founded by violinist Enrico Gatti and specializing in eighteenth-century Italian music. At the centre of this project are Luigi Boccherini’s guitar quintets, which he performs on an early nineteenth-century six-course Spanish instrument.

Since 2015 he has served as artistic director of “MUN – Music Notes in Pesaro”, a chamber music season organized by the Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali. Since 2017 he has taught at various Italian conservatories — in Latina, Modena, Lecce, Genoa, Bergamo, and Trieste — and since 2024, after winning the national competitive examination based on qualifications and examinations, he has held the chair of guitar at the “Lucio Campiani” Conservatory in Mantua.