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Antonio Mercurio

Double Bassist

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My Bio

He began studying double bass at the “Claudio Abbado” Civic School of Music in Milan at the age of 12 with Maestro Carlo Capriata, and then graduated with Maestro Claudio Pinferetti at the G. Verdi music conservatory in Milan. He studied at the W. Stauffer Academy of Cremona and the Sermoneta courses with Maestro F. Petracchi. Later the Accademia della Scala in Milan will represent a further musical formation thanks to the teachers G. Ettorre and F. Siragusa, both first double basses of the same Milanese theater.
There are numerous collaborations with professional orchestras, among the best known are the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Scala, the Haydn Orchestra of Trento and Bolzano, the Orchestra Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestra of the Italian-speaking Switzerland of Lugano and the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio di Parma, thanks to which he has the opportunity to play with world-renowned conductors and soloists.In 2015 he played as soloist and co-solo of two duets for double bass by Simon Garcia on Diego Zecharies’s CD “Music for double bass solo, duett and quintett”.

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In 2004 Maestro Riccardo Muti chose him as the first double bass of the newly formed L. Cherubini Orchestra of Piacenza and Ravenna.

"L. Cherubini Orchestra"

Since 2015 he has been the first double bass at the Arturo Toscanini Foundation in Parma, the same year in which the “Carlo Capriata” International Prize is awarded for the artistic awards achieved in Italy and abroad.

“Carlo Capriata”

He is the founder of the Quartetto Coll’Arco, chamber music group that focuses on Rossini’s chamber music, for which he has made several transcriptions of the opera Symphonies by the same author.

"Quartetto Coll’Arco"

Achievements

2004 Has been selected by Maestro Riccardo Muti as the First double bass of the newly formed L. Cherubini Orchestra of Piacenza and Ravenna

2008 Has participated in the Musical Project Spira Mirabilis, recognized by the EU as an ambassador of culture in Europe

2015 Has been the First Double Bass at the Arturo Toscanini Foundation in Parma

2020 Won the Cinematic Award for the International J. M. Sperger Competition/Quarantine Challenge with two of the videos from the Quarantine Project

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