Artists

Damiano Scarpa – cello

Damiano Scarpa - cello

Born in 1985 in Castelfranco Veneto, he graduated with top marks and honors under the guidance of Maestro Pietro Serafin and for chamber music with Maestro Filippo Faes and Domenico Nordio at the Conservatory of the same city.
He studied with Franco Maggio Ormezowski, Yvan Chiffoleau, Alain Meunier, Rohan de Saram and Antonio Meneses, the Trio di Trieste, with Rocco Filippini and Mario Brunello. He graduated “mit Auszeichnung” in Enrico Bronzi’s class at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He has played with artists such as Mario Brunello, Augustin Dumay, Maureen Jones, Alberto Miodini, Amiram Ganz, Simone Briatore, Alessandro Moccia, William Colemann, Ilya Grubert, Filippo Gamba, Toby Hoffman, Eliot Lawson, Enrico Bronzi, Alessandro Taverna, Alexander Hoenthal, Enrico Fagone, Umberto Clerici, Philipp Tutzer, Domenico Nordio, Quartetto Prometeo.
At the age of twenty-five he won the position of first cellist in the “Mozarteumorchester Salzburg” where he remained until 2012. With this ensemble he collaborates with conductors such as Dmitri Kitajenko, Ivor Bolton, Giovanni Antonini, Leo Hussain, Trevor Pinnok, Markus Stenz, Zolt Hamar, Heirich Schiff, Mark Minkowsky, Mark Wigglesworth, Alexander Shelley. In 2012 he was offered a contract for the 2012/13 season with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
As first cello he regularly collaborates with the Hessischen Rundfunk (Fankfurt Radio Synphony), Orchestra del Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Salzburg Orchester Solisten, Teatro Filarmonico e Arena di Verona, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
He is first cellist of the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra and cello teacher at the Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti in Palermo.

Events

Lorenzo Rovati, Damiano Scarpa, Antonia Valente - Ravel

June 1st 2024 – 12.00
Galleria Corraini

Lorenzo Rovati, Javier Comesaña Barrera, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, Damiano Scarpa, Ying Li - Beach

June 1st 2024 – 6.15 pm
Teatro Bibiena