Viola Innocenti

Viola Innocenti, born in Florence in 1999, is an international artist driven by creativity and curiosity. She has worked as a substitute musician in several international orchestras, including the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Metropole Orkest, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina.

She is also active in ensembles such as Doelenensemble and Ciconia Consort. She performed with the Noies String Quartet in the opening concert of the Belcea String Quartet at the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale and was a member of NSKA, the Dutch String Quartet Academy, under the guidance of the Quatuor Danel, Simone Gramaglia, Lukas Hagen, and others. In April 2025, she recorded a CD with the Metropole Orkest and composer Damiano Pascarelli. In the 2022–23 season, she was an academy member of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, performing both chamber music and orchestral repertoire. Since October 2022, she has been a member of Batavierhuis, an artist community based in Rotterdam.

At the age of 19, she graduated with highest honours in violin from the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole under Lyubov Kuzma and Volodymyr Kuzma. In 2020, she moved to Rotterdam to pursue a Master’s degree in Classical Music at Codarts University for the Arts under Igor Gruppman and Vesna Gruppman. During her time in the Netherlands, she discovered the viola as a more natural means of expression, developing a strong artistic connection with the instrument in a very short time. She continued her studies in viola in the class of M° Roman Spitzer, principal violist of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. Shortly after, she performed at the “Musica sull’Acqua Festival,” playing with the MACH Orchestra and in chamber music alongside internationally renowned artists such as Raphael Christ, Ian Bostridge, and Diego Matheuz.

She has been invited to several festivals and academies, including the Schiermonnikoog Festival, Moritzburg Festival Academy, Berlin Opera Academy, Entroterre Festival in Bertinoro, IMOC Festival in Chianciano, Bergen Nasjonale Opera Academy, Bregenz Festival Academy, Trame Sonore, and the Ravello Festival. In 2022–23 she joined the Netherlands Youth Orchestra (NJO) and passed the audition for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Academy. In 2023 and 2024 she was placed on the reserve list for the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the European Union Youth Orchestra. She has attended masterclasses with artists such as Garth Knox, Lawrence Power, Antonello Farulli, Diemut Poppen, Danusha Waskiewicz, Pavel Vernikov, Igor Volochine, Jana Ozolina, Ilya Grubert, Eliot Lawson, and Klaidi Sahatci. In 2016 she was awarded a scholarship for the Bertinoro Summer Masterclass, where she performed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as a soloist.

At Fiesole, she wrote her thesis on music under the Third Reich, with a focus on concentration camps and exile. Her creative artistic nature led her to interdisciplinary research, combining Gideon Klein’s String Trio (1944) with drawings and poems created in the Terezín concentration camp through a performative approach. Her work was awarded and selected for the Codarts Research Festival 2022. She is also the author of Sogno d’arte, a publication collecting her poetic reflections and drawings by her grandfather Luca, a multifaceted artist.

Viola participates in Trame Sonore 2026 as a member of Solanè.