BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5c0ff177-aa48-4548-be59-68fbfb0a867b@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260815T220749 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270227T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270227T193000 SUMMARY:Matteo Cimatti\, violin and Francesco Granata\, piano LOCATION:London St Mary's Church Barnes DESCRIPTION:- ProgrammeBrahms - Violin Sonata No.1 in G\, Op.78Prokofiev - Violin Sonata No.2 in D\, Op.94aArthur Keegan - YCAT Composer Fellow Comm ission: TBCClara Schumann - 3 Romances for violin & piano\, Op.22Ravel Vio lin Sonata No.2 in GBased between London and Switzerland\, Matteo Cimatti has appeared alongside several European orchestras and at numerous festiva ls\, and is also an accomplished and enthusiastic chamber player. In May 2 025\, he was selected as one of the winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Final Auditions. Upcoming highlights include h is debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt\, Internationales Musikfestival Heidel berger Fruhling\, a return to Wigmore Hall and the Brahms concerto with th e London Firebird Orchestra.In 2024\, Matteo graduated from the Haute Éco le Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland\, where he most recently studied wit h Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He has appeared as a soloist alongside se veral orchestras\, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra\, and has performed in numerous festivals and concert seasons such as the Sion Festival\, Amici della Musica di Firenze \, Festival dei Due Mondi\, Musikdorf Ernen and the Ticino Music Festival among others. Matteo has received awards from the Rahn Kulturfonds and the Concours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne\, and has been a prize winner in leading competitions including the Concours Feast of Duos Intern ational\, Premio Postacchini International Violin\, and Premio Crescendo.A chamber music enthusiast from a very young age\, Matteo enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player. He is a founding member of t he Wendel Quartet\, a piano quartet based in Basel. Matteo plays a 1769 Gi ovanni Battista Guadagnini violin kindly loaned to him through the Beare ’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor. ​Francesco Gran ata is an Italian pianist.Highly active both in solo and chamber music set tings\, his collaborations include Trio Eclipse\, an ensemble based in Bas el that he joined in 2024 and Wendel Quartet\, of which he is a founding m ember. Additionally\, he frequently performs duo recitals with various mus ical partners.Winner of numerous piano competitions\, he resulted First Pr ize at the “Premio Venezia” in 2017\, which led to many solo recitals across Italy and abroad. Subsequently\, he was a Laureate at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (2021)\, won Second Prize at the R ahn Musikpreis (2024)\, was a Finalist at the Montreal International Piano Competition (2021)\, and reached the final stages of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2022). Since then\, Francesco has performed in solo recitals and chamber music ensembles in Italy\, the Uni ted States\, Switzerland\, France\, Spain\, Austria\, Germany\, and India\ , giving concerts in renowned venues such as KKL in Lucerne\, the Experime ntal Theatre of the NCPA in Mumbai\, the Opera House in Bordeaux\, the Mus ical Arts Center in Bloomington (USA)\, the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venic e\, among others.At the age of 13\, Francesco made his debut as a soloist with orchestra and has since performed with the Luzern Sinfonieorchester\, the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice\, I Pomeriggi Musicali\, IU Philarmonic Orchestra\, among others\, working with conductors such as Tung-Chieh Chu ang\, Jonathan Webb\, Arthur Fagen\, Amedeo Monetti\, Cosimo Bombardieri\, Stefano Ligoratti\, and Michele Spotti.In 2018\, the magazine “Suonare News” released his first CD\, featuring a repertoire ranging from Mozart to Debussy. In 2015\, he recorded a DVD for Limenmusic studios of Lachner ’s version for piano and string quintet of Beethoven’s Third Piano Con certo. In 2023\, Italian magazine “Amadeus” published a CD featuring M artucci’s Trios recorded with the “DaVinci Ensemble.”​He has atten ded various masterclasses with Pavel Gililov\, Robert Levin\, Elisabeth Le onskaja\, Alberto Nosè\, Giovanni Bellucci\, Scott McBride Smith\, Malcol m Bilson\, Rolf Plagge\, and Andrea Lucchesini. In 2023\, he was selected by Maria João Pires to participate in one of her “Partitura Project” workshops.​Francesco graduated at 17 from “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan with top marks and special mention. In 2019\, he completed the Mast erCourse Diploma at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the guida nce of Benedetto Lupo\, and in 2023\, he obtained the Artist Diploma from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University\, Bloomington (USA)\, stu dying with Roberto Plano. He currently resides in Basel\, where he is purs uing his second Master in Music Pedagogy at the Musik Akademie\, after hav ing earned the Master in Performance (with a minor in Jazz) at the same sc hool in June 2025\, under the guidance of Claudio Martínez Mehner.\n\nBol etos: https://wegottickets.com/event/710818 URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/5c0ff177-aa48-4548-be59-68fbfb0a86 7b END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR