Bio

Doriano Giovanni Maria Di Domenico is an Italian-Swiss violinist, violist and pedagogue. He was born in 1998 and he started play the violin at the age of 7 in the music school of its little town Cagno (Como).

He started his conservatory studies in 2010, when he was 11. In 2017 he attended the Diploma Accademico di I Livello at the Pavia Conservatory "F.Vittadini". 

In 2020 he attended the Master of Arts in Music Performance at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) in Pavel Berman's Class. 

During the Covid-19 pandemic he deepened in didactic and pedagogic lectures, thus inducing him starting his Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy in the same conservatory, studying the theoretical didactic subjects with Anna Modesti. He attended the title in 2022. 

During this studies he developed a deep interest also in the viola, whose didactic basics are in common with the violin ones. So he entered the class of Luca Ranieri in Novara Conservatory "G.Cantelli" in 2022 and he attended the title in 2024.

During his academic path, he attended also several Masterclasses in Italy, Austria and Bulgaria with maestros such as Guido Rimonda, Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, Igor Volochine, Anton Sorokov, Luca Ranieri, etc. 

Doriano gave his first soloist concert at the age of 11 in 2010 with Orchestra MusicArte. 

Since then, he continued to give soloist recitals and concerts, among wich we mention the concert he held in 2018 for the birth of the Orchestra del Borromeo when he played J.Haydn Concert in G Major, entierly recorded by Forte?Fortissimo!TV.

He was very young when he also started chamber music projects, that through the years led him to play for various musical seasons like Viotti Festival, BA Classica, Donatori di Musica Gallarate, Giovane Musica Svizzera, Festival Antegnati Bellinzona, Veddasca Sound etc. in different combination from string quartet, piano sextet, piano trio to violin/organ duo or violin/guitar duo. His most important chamber music project, however, is his violin/viola and piano duo called Medhelan Duo, that led him to play in Italy (Viotti Festival, Ursa Call), Austria (Bosendorfer Salon Vienna, Vivaldi Hall Vienna), Belgium (Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bruxelles , BOZAR), and soon in America. Click here for more information about the duo and here for more information about the American tournèe.

Among his several orchestral collaborations,  that led him play through all Italy, Città del Vaticano, Switzerland, USA (Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall in New York), 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.

 In 2020 he started a thriving collaboration together with Auriga Teatro Company. Click here for more information.

Doriano loves to expand his artistic competences, going beyond performing classical music. 

Since 2023, and expecially with the Medhelan Duo, he started collaborations with some contemporary composers, receiving dedications of original pieces and starting valorizing the new Italian repertoire. Here some exemples:

• A. Gottardello (2023): "Visione", transription for the Duo Medhelan of an abstract from the majestic symphonic poem "Una notte a Punta di Mezzo" by Gottardello himself

• G. Albini (2023): "Duo" Op.  51 n.3, dedicated to Duo Medhelan

• G. Albini (2024): "Passacaglia di Doriano", dedicated to Doriano Di Domenico

• L.M. Serra (T.B.A.): Violin and Piano Sonata n.2 , dedicated to Duo Medhelan

Inspired by these collaborations, he started composing himself some pieces. So now he often plays in his concerts his own "L'età dell' Amore" Op.3 and "Tempesta e Manichini" Op. 5. Also his Medhelan Duo partner Matteo Generani started composing, and they often propose his "Duo" Op. 1 and "Op. 2b". 

With these four operas, furthermore, the Duo Medhelan has been selected for the 2024 "Festival Nazionale dei Conservatori - Città di Frosinone" to partecipate like contemporary composers and performers, achieving great success in terms of public acclamation and critics' opinions. 

As the Medhelan Duo, Doriano and Matteo also do transcription and arrangements for their formation to valorize the Italian musical heritage. Please check here their contributions.

Finally, in 2024 Doriano started a collaboration with director Achille Mauri. They made togehter the music of a scene of the short film "Every Island Has A Name" for the brand Arc'teryx  and Hilton Productions

During his studies for the Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy, Doriano deepened on the right hand technique, researching for new strategies to develope the bow handling and the use of the right arm. 

So for his Master thesis 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. The positive results of this sperimentation took this work to be chosen for the publication on the "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.

After the publication of this article about his thesis, he gave two public conferences about it:

• Recontres romandes de recerche en éducation musicale (Fribourg, Switzerland, 2023)

• Public presentation of "Quaderni del Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana - Vol. 2" (Lugano, 2024)

He now continues his didactic career as Violin Professor at "Liceo Musicale A.Manzoni" in Varese

Doriano is winner of several national and international competitions, like the Caneres International Competition - Vienna 2023 and in the Grand Prize Virtuoso International Competition - Bruxelles 2023.

As member of Duo Medhelan, he receives support from various institutions for the realization of its projects. In particular, for participating  at the "Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition Brussels: Ceremony Awards" held on April 21, 2023, he received soustain from Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bruxelles and the University of Missouri Kansas City.

In 2024 he was selected as a winner of the De Sono grant for 2024/2025. This grant must be used for musical studies, and he chose to attend the annual Viola Advanced Courses at Avos Project - Scuola di Musica Internazionale for year 2024/2025 in Luca Ranieri's class.

Doriano plays a violin by Iginio Siega (Venice, 1925) and a viola by Mattia Riva (Varese, 2012)