domenico ermirio

has been playing cello since he was eight. He took the degree in 2008 at Genoa's “N. Paganini” Conservatory in the class of N. Zanardi and then he studied with D. Destefano. Meanwhile he took the high scientific school diploma and in 2013 the bachelor's degree in Architectural Restoration at the Genoa's University. Now he's studying with J. Goritzki at the Conservatory of Italian Swiss (Master in music performance).

 

He attended various chamber music and solo masterclasses both in Italy and abroad among which: the Gargano Masters with D. Destefano (Vieste 2010), a masterclass about Jean Sibelius and North Europe chamber music (at Alessandria's “A. Vivaldi” Conservatory in 2010) with F. Gräsbeck and the Ticino Musica courses with J. Goritzki and U. Koella (Lugano 2014). In 2012 he joined the project Study Abroad at the University of Georgia Athens (U.S.A.) organized together with Alessandria's Conservatory, with solo and chamber music lessons given by D. Starkweather and E. Rivkin.
 

He spends a lot of activity in chamber groups with different performances both in Italy and abroad (France, Finland, Switzerland and United States). He has been playing since 2010 with the cello group Dodecacellos with many concerts in Northern Italy. Since 2005 he has been working together with many orchestras, among which: Orchestra del Tigullio (Chiavari), Orchestra Sinfonica del Conservatorio “A. Vivaldi” di Alessandria, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, Orchestra Sinfonica di Chiavari, Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona, Orchestra Giovani Solisti (Genoa), Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino. For two years he has been playing in many concerts of Orchestra laVerdi (Milan) with conductors such as A. Ceccato, J. Axelrod, Z. Xian, P. Flor and R. Chailly.

 

His repertoire goes from ancient music to contemporaries (with pieces written for him too), whithout avoid any possibility such as film and pop music, following the idea that Art has no labels.