Luigi Attademo
Award-winning in several national and international competitions, among the others the “Concours International d’Exécution Musicale (CIEM)” in Geneva (1995), Luigi Attademo was pupil of the guitarist-composer Angelo Gilardino, whose he premiered many works for guitar solo and guitar and orchestra.
Luigi Attademo graduate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the musical interpretation, he published a book about this subject and he was contributor of several magazines. He worked in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares-Spain), to catalogue its manuscripts, and he discovered some unknown manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexan- dre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others.
He recorded several première of this repertoire, and many CDs - all published by Brilliant Classics - among the others, Scarlatti's Sonatas (2009), the Complete Bach music for lute (2011), the complete music for guitar by Niccolò Paganini (2013). In 2014 the Italian magazine Amadeus dedicated him an issue, publishing a new recording on Fernando Sor's masterworks. His last recording (2016) is dedicated to the XIXth century music played on six different historical instruments.
He played recently in chamber music projects with the violist Simone Gramaglia and contemporary music, like as El Cimarron by H.W. Henze and the Concerto for guitar and Orchestra by Alessandro Solbiati. During last year, he played several guitars by Torres and he was curator of the exhibition “Torres, the Stradivari of the modern guitar” at the Violin Museum in Cremona, publishing a new CD dedicated to Spanish repertoire. Two new CDs, “Absconditus. 15 Sonatas by D. Scarlatti” and “Oblivion.Homage to Piazzolla” are published by Da Vinci Clas-sics.
As a artist and Lecturer, he was invited at Guitar Foundation of America and Royal Academy of Music, in 2022 he also published a new selection of Bach masterworks, published by Ricordi-Hal Leonard and in a CD by Brilliant Classics.
Luigi Attademo graduate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the musical interpretation, he published a book about this subject and he was contributor of several magazines. He worked in the Archive of the Andrés Segovia’s Foundation (Linares-Spain), to catalogue its manuscripts, and he discovered some unknown manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexan- dre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others.
He recorded several première of this repertoire, and many CDs - all published by Brilliant Classics - among the others, Scarlatti's Sonatas (2009), the Complete Bach music for lute (2011), the complete music for guitar by Niccolò Paganini (2013). In 2014 the Italian magazine Amadeus dedicated him an issue, publishing a new recording on Fernando Sor's masterworks. His last recording (2016) is dedicated to the XIXth century music played on six different historical instruments.
He played recently in chamber music projects with the violist Simone Gramaglia and contemporary music, like as El Cimarron by H.W. Henze and the Concerto for guitar and Orchestra by Alessandro Solbiati. During last year, he played several guitars by Torres and he was curator of the exhibition “Torres, the Stradivari of the modern guitar” at the Violin Museum in Cremona, publishing a new CD dedicated to Spanish repertoire. Two new CDs, “Absconditus. 15 Sonatas by D. Scarlatti” and “Oblivion.Homage to Piazzolla” are published by Da Vinci Clas-sics.
As a artist and Lecturer, he was invited at Guitar Foundation of America and Royal Academy of Music, in 2022 he also published a new selection of Bach masterworks, published by Ricordi-Hal Leonard and in a CD by Brilliant Classics.
