Andrea Obiso

Recognized by critics as an “enfant prodige”, he began studying violin and piano at the age of six with his musician parents and, at the age of twelve, he made his debut as a soloist with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. He is the winner of many international competitions, including the “ARD International Violin Competition 2017” in Munich where he also received the special prize for the best world premiere of the suite “For solo Violin”, a piece commissioned for the competition and written by Avner Dorman.
Furthermore, he was the winner of the 1st Prize and Audience Award at the Prix Ravel 2017, the 2nd Prize and Audience Award at the “XI A. Khachaturian International Violin Competition 2015” in Armenia, the “Special Prize for Virtuosic Performance” at the “6th Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians 2008” in Korea, a semi-finalist and winner of the Audience Award at the “VII Sendai International Music Competition” in Japan and the overall winner of eleven national violin competitions including the Vittorio Veneto competition.
Last season, Andrea made his debut at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, presented and recorded live by Deutschlandfunk Kultur & RBB Radio and in the same year he toured Germany, Finland and Japan.
In the past he also made his debut in Moscow at the Kremlin Palace with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Vladimir Spivakov, then in China at the Shanghai Symphony Hall and in Latin America (Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago de Chile). Furthermore, he made his debut in 2017 at the Herkulessaal and Gasteig in Munich with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. He has been recorded live in numerous TV and Radio programs on BR Klassik, RBB, NDR, SWR in Germany, for NHK in Japan, on Rai Radio 3 and on RAI 1 with Massimo Giletti and Massimo Ranieri, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, ”Fontainebleau Festival”, “Festival dei Due Mondi” in Spoleto, “Sagra Malatestiana” in Rimini.
In 2019 he graduated in the class of the masters Aaron Rosand and Midori Goto at the prestigious “Curtis Institute Of Music” in Philadelphia thanks to the scholarship of the “Eileen Rosenau Fellowship Program”. Among the other disciplines studied at Curtis, Andrea Obiso studied conducting with two students of Otto-Werner Mueller, counterpoint in composition with students of Carl Schachter, improvisation and musical aesthetics with professors Jonathan Coopersmith, Noam Sivan. During his time at Curtis he also served as leader of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in many symphonic and opera productions and studied in New York with Sheryl Staples, concertmaster of the New Philharmonic Orchestra and teacher at the Juilliard School. From 2005 to 2015 he was among the youngest active students admitted to participate in the Courses of the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” in Siena, in the class of Boris Belkin, with whom he also studied at the Conservatory of Music in Maastricht, graduating with full marks in 2016.
In 2008, at the age of fourteen, he graduated from the “Conservatorio A. Scarlatti” in Palermo with honorable mention.

Andrea Obiso has collaborated with Lilya Zilberstein, Antonio Meneses, Roberto Diaz, Gérard Poulet, George Pehlivanian, Steven Mercurio, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Michael Francis, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrea Licata, Stefano Ranzani, Yoko Matsuo and Nicola Paszkowsky and has received teachings from Pamela Franck, Augustin Hadelich, Peter Wiley, Arnold Steinhardt, Ignatius Solzhenitsyn, Ida Kavafian, Olivier Charlier, Philippe Graffin, Isabelle Duha, Alexis Galperine, Bruno Pasquier, the Ebéne Quartet, Mikhail Kopelman, Gérard Poulet, Kimiko Nakazawa.

© photo Daniel Delang

Andrea has a deep knowledge of the solo and chamber repertoire. His repertoire also includes concertos by Strauss, Ziino, Khachaturian, Ernst and Britten to name the less performed.
The most important performances have been with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchener Kammerorchester, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic, Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra of Japan, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, Orchestra del Teatro Bellini di Catania, Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orkest der Lage Landen, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Limburgs Symfonie Orkest, Orchestra Arturo Toscanini di Parma and others, always with great success and participation from the public, with whom he always seeks a special relationship.

Despite the prospects of a brilliant solo career - which continues but with very selective choices - Andrea Obiso decides, in 2020, to accept the position of Concertmaster in Rome and will be welcomed by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with which he takes part in long tours that lead him to perform the great symphonies and famous solos around the world. 

Andrea Obiso plays a violin "Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù 1741" entrusted to him by NPO "Yellow Angel" and an "E. Pajeot" bow owned by the "Nippon Violin Co. Ltd." of Tokyo.