Giovanni Sollima Net Worth is
$2 Million

Mini Biography

Giovanni Sollima was created in Palermo in 1962 right into a family of music artists. He analyzed in Palermo, Salzburg and Stuttgart, and, still an adolescent, embarked on an excellent international profession of cellist, collaborating with Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich, Jorg Demus and Giuseppe Sinopoli. Together with the soloist profession, his creative attention led him to explore fresh frontiers in neuro-scientific structure: his unmistakable design is seen as a contaminations between different styles: minimalism, rock and roll, electronic and cultural music from all around the Mediterranean region, with echoes of historic and baroque music, based on a thorough traditional teaching. Sollima uses in his masterpieces traditional western and eastern acoustic devices and electric and electronic equipment, blended with others of his personal invention, such as for example in Aquilarco, as well as others especially designed for him, just like the tenor violin within the paintings of Caravaggio and an ice-cello that in the wintertime of 2007 he performed at 3200 meters above ocean level, within an igloo’ theatre built-in the glacier of Val Senales. His music continues to be played by classical performers such as for example Yo-Yo Ma, Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Viktoria Mullova, Ruggero Raimondi, Mario Brunello, Bruno Canino, Yuri Bashmet, Katia Labeque, the Berliner Philharmoniker, La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico, as well as the pop celebrities Patti Smith, Larry Coryell, Mauro Pagani, Stefano Bollani, Elisa (protagonist of his opera Ellis Isle). For movie theater and tv he composed for Marco Tullio Giordana (I cento passi, La meglio gioventù), Peter Greenaway (The Tulse Luper Suitcases and Nightwatching), John Turturro (Proof for any Sicilian Tragedy), Lasse Gjertsen (Daydream). For the movie theater he wrote and performed music for directors such as for example Robert Wilson, Alessandro Baricco, Peter Stein. In 2006 Peter Greenaway decided to go with his music for a big set up staged in Amsterdam in the 4th centenary of Rembrandt. In the dance field he collaborated numerous great choreographers, such as for example Karole Armitage and Carolyn Carlson who, on the Venice Biennale, produced him play on stage, among the dancers, using his scenic charisma. Being a soloist, or with different instrumental groupings, he performed his compositions all around the globe, from Carnegie Hall in NY to La Scala in Milan, the Queen Elizabeth Hall as well as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Tokyo Summertime Celebration, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Ravenna Celebration, Parco della Musica in Rome, the International Celebration of Istanbul, the Caikowskij Hall of Moscow, the starting from the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the Kronberg Celebration in Frankfurt, the Venice Biennale, Kunstfest of Weimar, the Celebration of Amsterdam, and in addition tours in the united kingdom, Holland, the U.S., Canada, Russia, Japan, Australia. Prestigious locations, aswell as alternative types, nearer to younger audience, like the Knitting Manufacturing plant in NY, a genuine underground temple, when the Pulitzer Reward Justin Davidson explains him as “The Jimi Hendrix from the Cello”. Amazing may be the cello overall performance in the Sahara Desert and the main one underwater inside a Sicilian’ gebbia (a container for irrigation’ drinking water) for an set up by Antonio Di Mino. The Municipality of Milan commissioned to Sollima the sound theme for Expo 2015. At this time he is composing the music for another film by Carlos Saura. Among the countless CD, we keep in mind Aquilarco for Stage Music/Polygram (on invitation by Philip Glass, today in Egea’s catalogue), Works so when We Were Trees for Sony, Neapolitain Concertos in collaboration with I Turchini of Antonio Florio for Glossa, Caravaggio and 100 Cellos for Egea. He has a cello Francesco Ruggeri (Cremona, 1679) and, since 2010, he’s been teaching on the Academy of Santa Cecilia, where he was lately awarded the name of Academician. Sollima publishes his just work at Casa Musicale Sonzogno of Milan.

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