Hugo Ticciati
Hugo Ticciati is a British-born violinist and conductor of Italian origin, living in Sweden. He has performed in several worldwide events such as the Gotland Chamber Music Festival, the Saint-Denis Festival, and the Festival Internacional Cervantino. He also founded his own festival, called O/MODƏRNT, in Sweden in 2011.
Career
At the age of twelve, he entered the Edinburgh Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Since then, Ticciati has performed with several orchestras from England, Romania, Sweden, East Asia, Estonia, and the United States.He has performed in the Baltic Sea Festival in Sweden, at Carnegie Hall, and the Hermitage Music Festival held in St Petersburg.
Ticciati currently gives regular concerts in important halls in Europe and in East Asia. He plays accompanied by pianists such as Staffan Scheja, Svetlana Navarssadian, Sophia Rahman, Michael Tsalka and Henrik Måwe.
Ticciati gives masterclasses and seminars on violin teaching and lectures on music-related subjects all over the world. In the autumn of 2008, he served as a guest violin teacher and lecturer in music history at The New School in New York. Hugo's teaching searches for ways to apply the physical and spiritual aspects of meditation to practicing art, playing, and living in music.
Ticciati started studying violin in London before attending the University of Toronto. He continued studying with Russian violinists Nina and Oleg Balabina in Sweden, where he is now a citizen. Ticciati has won the international competitions Giovani Talenti and Rovere d'Oro at San Bartolomeo al Mare, Italy, in 2002, and the Mendelssohn Cup in Bari, Italy, in 2004. In 2007, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music in the United Kingdom.
Projects
Ticciati has started a new festival named O/Modernt as artistic director at Ulrikdals Palace Theatre Confidencen, in Sweden.Ticciati works in the contemporary music world with composers such as Albert Schnelzer, Anders Hillborg, Djuro Zivkovic, Leonardo Coral,, Tobias Broström, Thomas Jennefelt, Sergei Yevtushenko and Esaias Järnegard. Within other projects, he is working with Bill Connor, on "An Improvised Violin Concerto." Over the next seasons, Ticciati will be performing concertos in Russia, Romania, Sweden, England and Mexico.