Andrea Obiso –

Born in 1994, he is one of the youngest Italian violinists to have received his diploma, from Conservatory of Music "V. Bellini" in Palermo (), with honours and special mention, in 2008. Considered by critics an “enfant prodige”, he began to study violin with his father at age six. At nine he gave his first public performance with his mother, pianist. Four years later, Andrea Obiso, made his orchestral debut with the "Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana" performing the Violin Concerto n.5 by Henry Vieuxtemps.Since his orchestral debut, he has appeared with Orchestra Sinfonica of Roma, Orchestra of Teatro Bellini of Catania, Orchestra Filarmonica of Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica of Sanremo, Orkest der Lage Landen, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestra of Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Limburgs Symfonie Orkest and many others, always acclaimed by public and critics. In 2005, he began to study with Boris Belkin, at the "Accademia Musicale Chigiana" of Siena (Italy) and later, in 2007, at the Maastricht Conservatory, in Holland. Andrea Obiso has won several violin competitions including the 9th Music Award Maastricht in April 2009. He has an impressive repertoire of concertos including those of Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Glazounov, Dvorak, Prokofiev. In2011 he made his Moskow debut, in Kremlin, with "The Moskow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra" and Vladimir Spivakov as conductor. He continues to perform regularly with orchestra throughout Italy and abroad. Andrea Obiso plays a violin made by Roberto Regazzi owened by a private collection.

Repertoire

Violin Solo

Joahnn S. Bach Sonate e Partite Nicolò Paganini Capricci OP.1 Henry Wieniawski Capricci Op.10 Fritz Kreisler Recitativo und Scherzo-Caprice Eugene Ysaye Violin Sonate Op.27

Violin and Piano Tommaso Vitali Ciaccona in sol minore Henry Wieniawski Polonaise de Concert in Re magg. Op.4 Polonaise brillante in La magg. op.21

Scherzo-Tarantella Op.16

Variation from an “Original Theme” Op.15

Fantasie Brillante sur “Faust” Op.20

Fritz Kreisler Tambourin Chinois Preludio und Allegro

Danse Espagnole

Shon Rosmarin

Pablo de Sarasate Habanera op.21 Introduction and Tarantella Op.43

Zigeunerweisen

Henry Vieuxtemps Ballade and Polonaise Willibald Gluck Melodie Piotr I. Tckaikovsky Melodie Serenata malinconique

Valse-Scherzo Op.34

Niccolò Paganini Cantabile Le streghe Op.8

Wolfang A. Mozart Sonata n.1 in sol maggiore KV 301 Sonata n.8 in do maggiore KV 296

Sonata n.10 in sib maggiore KV 378

Adagio KV 262 and Rondò KV 373

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata n.1 in re magg. Op.12 Sonata n.4 in la min Op.23

Sonata n.8 in sol magg. Op.30

Sonata in re magg. Op.94a Sergei Prokofieff

Cinq Melodies Op.35 bis

Valse from "Cinderella"

Aram Khachaturian "Song-Poeme" "Dance"

Maurice Ravel Tzigane Dimitri Shostakovich Four Preludes Camille Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op.28

Violin and Orchestra

G.B. Viotti Concerto n.22 in la minore Johann S. Bach Concerto n.2 in mi magg Wolfang A. Mozart Concerto n.3 in sol magg. KV 216 Concerto n.5 in la magg. KV 218

Adagio KV 261 e Rondò KV 373

Concerto n.1 in Sib maggiore KV 207

Henry Vieuxtemps Concerto n.5 in la minore Max Bruch Concerto n.1 in sol min Scottisc Fantasy in mib magg. Op,46

Camille Saint Saens Concerto n.3 in si minore Felix Mendelssohn Concerto in min. Op.64 Henry W. Ernst Concerto in fa# minore Piotr. I. Tckaikovsky Concerto in re maggiore Melodie

Serenata malinconique

Valse-Scherzo Op.34

Ludwig Van Beethoven Romanza in fa maggiore Romanza in sol maggiore

Niccolò Paganini Concerto n.1 in re magg Aram Khachaturian Concerto in do maggiore Sergei Prokofieff Concerto n.1 in re maggiore Concerto n.2 in sol minore

Antonin Dvorak Concerto in la min. Op.53 Tzigane Alexander Glazounov Concerto in la minore Op.82 Camille Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op.28 Richard Strauss Concerto per violino e orchestra in re min Op.8

Press Reviews

"An enfant prodige at the" Bellini " of Catania: Andrea Obiso"

"... and follow the execution of the Concerto No.5 in A minor Op.37 for violin and orchestra by Henry Vieuxtemps, Gretry said. The fourteen Andrea Obiso has performed the solo part with great technical precision and vigorous temperament, expressive, showing a high mastery and extremely mature playing of the violin. Trills, mordants, ascending and descending scales, wide intervallic leaps, staccati, detached, legati, bichords, etc ... everything was done by the adolescent violinist with nonchalance and perfection sum. The young musician has literally amazed the audience, that rewarded with long and warm applause, Obiso has responded with a important encore: a fine theme and variations by .

Aldo Pasqualino "Bellini News" November 17, 2008

"Ranzani, Obiso and the Orchestra of the" Bellin", grand concert"

"... the partecipation of a young violinist who amply deserves the glory that accompanies his name ... touches the strings of the violin with extraordinary delicacy ... and makes velvet accents, elegant harmonies, a softness color as the greats of the past have achieved only in mature years. The young violinist (he 14 years) is not only admirable for his age (as with any enfant prodige), but especially for its pathos, so feel the mood more friendly, it does participate through music, consoles with it also the most severe wounds that life holds for us. A concert of this value deserves a recording "

Sergio Sciacca "La Sicilia", Catania, November 9, 2008

"... the fourteen violinist Andrea Obiso is a miracle of technique and sensitivity."

MarioRagazzini "Suonare News" - October 2008