Stefano D'Ermenegildo

Stefano began studying music at the age of 5. He was given piano and violin lessons, leading to the completion of his magister degree (violin) and subsequent teaching at the University of Music L’Aquila. His international experience has seen study in Spain (Conservatorio Superior de Música, Cordoba) and Austria (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Graz) with Dominika Falger. In 2010 he won a European scholarship in order to work as a musician in Madrid, following which he moved to Vienna for further study. In 2012 he applied to the Joseph Haydn Konservatorium Eisenstadt where he studied with Anna Kandinskaya. In 2014 he won the audition for Southbank Sinfonia orchestra, based in Waterloo, London. He has played in many International theatres including Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall, Teatro alla Scala, Berliner Philarmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Wien, Musikverein Wien, Carnegie Hall, Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid, Teatro Teresa Carreño Caracas, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Sala Nervi, Romanian Athenaeum Bucarest and under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Riccardo Muti, Edward Gardner, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lior Shambadal, Luis Bacalov, Zoltán Kocsis, Marco Angius, Luigi Piovano, Alexander Lonquich, Johannes Prinz, Daniele Giorgi, Andreas Weiss, Dorian Keilhack, Matthieu Mantanus and Timothy Brock. Outside of music, Stefano’s interests include Physics and Artificial Intelligence, having studied at the University of L’Aquila and in partnership with Stanford University.