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Doriano Giovanni Maria Di Domenico is an Italian-Swiss violinist, violist and pedagogue, De Sono Artist 2024 (viola) and Accademia Chigiana student (violin) in 2025, awarded in national and international competitions like Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition Bruxelles, Caneres Music Competition Vienna, Val Tidone - Chamber Music Competition etc.
As soloist and chamber musician he is regularly invited in many musical seasons like Aletsch Classic Festival, Unione Musicale, Verdi Off - Teatro Regio di Parma, Viotti Festival, BA Classica, Giovane Musica Svizzera, Festival Antegnati Bellinzona, Veddasca Sound. In 2018 he was invited to perform J.Haydn Concert in G Major for the birth of the Orchestra del Borromeo and the concert was entirely recorded by Forte?Fortissimo!TV.
In 2025 he was soloist and concertmaster for a 14-concerts tour in China with the United Soloists Swiss Orchestra, conducted by Arseny Shkaptzov.
With the Medhelan Duo - together with pianist Matteo Generani - he held concerts in Italy (Monferrato Classic Festival, Flying Notes, Viotti Festival, Festival Nazionale dei Conservatori città di Frosinone, UrsaCall), Austria (Bosendorfer Salon Vienna, Vivaldi Hall Vienna), Belgium (BOZAR, Italian Cultural Institute of Bruxelles, Salon Tilleul Bruxelles) and USA.
The Medhelan Duo was actually chosen in 2025 to be Artist in Residence of the Emerald Coast Music Alliance (Florida). They held 19 concerts in Destin and surroundings, sharing the stage, among the others, with Alon Goldstein and Amit Peled.
In the US they also played in Missouri (Classical Music Express) and Kansas (KU University of Music) collaborating in both occasions with tenor Genaro Mendez.
Focused on Italian music, the Medhelan Duo developed collaborations also with contemporary composers, receiving dedications of original pieces and valorizing the new Italian repertoire. This is the case of A. Gottardello (2023): "Visione" (dedicated to Medhelan Duo), G. Albini (2023): "Duo" Op. 51 n.3 (dedicated to Medhelan Duo), G. Albini (2024): "Passacaglia di Doriano" (dedicated to Doriano Di Domenico), L.M. Serra (2025): Violin and Piano Sonata n.2 (dedicated to Duo Medhelan), L.M. Serra (2025): Violin Concerto (dedicated to Doriano Di Domenico).
Doriano loves to expand his artistic competences, going beyond performing classical music. Inspired by these collaborations, he started composing himself. He often plays in his concerts his own "L'età dell' Amore" Op.3 (2023) and "Tempesta e Manichini" Op. 5 (2023), both for violin and piano. In 2024 he collaborated with director Achille Mauri and composer Andrea La Pietra for the making of the music of a scene of the film "Every Island Has A Name" for the brand Arc'teryx and Hilton Productions. He then performed his "Archipelagus Suite" Op. 7 for Violin and Doublebass for the Italian Première at Spazio Maiocchi (Milan, 2024).
Among his orchestral collaborations, that led him play through all Italy, Città del Vaticano, Switzerland, USA, Slovenia, France and Giordania, we mention the partecipation at the Vie dell'Amicizia project, 2022 and 2023 editions, with Orchestra Giovanile L. Cherubini, broadcasted on Rai1 Tv Channel and conducted by M°Riccardo Muti.
Doriano is also a passionate pedagouge.
During his studies for the Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy, he invented, developed and sperimented an excercise that he tested on three student, while he was monitored by his Relator Massimo Zicari and Co-Relator Anna Modesti. Its positive results took this work to be chosen for the publication on "Quaderni del Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana - Vol. 2 - Didattica musicale e ricerca - 2022" for Libreria Italiana Musicale Edition as one of the best thesis of the year. He was then invited to two public conferences to present his thesis:
Recontres romandes de recerche en éducation musicale (Fribourg, Switzerland, 2023)
Public presentation of "Quaderni del Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana - Vol. 2" (Lugano, 2024)
Doriano is a former violin student of M° Pavel Berman at the Master of Arts in Music Performance in Lugano, pedagogy student of M° Anna Modesti at the Master of Arts in Muisc Pedagogy in Lugano and viola student of M° Luca Ranieri for the Diploma Accademico in II Livello in Novara.
He attended masterclasses and lessons in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and USA with musicians such as Guido Rimonda, Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, Igor Volochine, Anton Sorokov, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Robert McDonalds, Joseph Janualdi etc.
As a De Sono artist 2024, he chose to use his grant to attend the annual Viola Advanced Courses at Avos Project - Scuola di Musica Internazionale for year 2024/2025 in Luca Ranieri's class.
In 2025, he was chosen by Ilya Gringolts to attend the Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy at Palazzo Chigi Saracini in Siena.
Doriano plays a violin by Iginio Siega (Venice, 1925) and a viola by Mattia Riva (Varese, 2012).
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