ANTONINO
FIUMARA
Born in 1993, he won the 2015 Abbado Prize and a bronze medal at the 2012 Venice Prize. He was an artist-in-residence at the Società dei Concerti di Milano during the 2018/19 season, when he debuted at the Milan Conservatory's Sala Verdi.
As a soloist, he has performed for several important Italian and international music institutions, including: the Società dei Concerti di Milano; the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti di Roma; the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; the Amici della Musica di Padova; the Fondazione Teatro Comunale in Ferrara; the Associazione “Gioacchino Rossini” in Pesaro; the Accademia Filarmonica in Messina; Mantova Musica; Musica al Tempio in Milan; the Fundación Eutherpe; the Europäisches Jugend Musikfestival in Salzburg, Passau and Comersee.
Since 2016, he has been the pianist and founder of the Quartetto Werther, one of the most promising chamber music ensembles on the national and international concert scenes. With the Quartet, he performs extensively at renowned festivals and concert associations, including Gesellschaft für Kammermusik Basel, Società del Quartetto di Milano, Società dei Concerti di Milano, Società dei Concerti di Trieste, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bologna Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Musikamera, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Società dei Concerti di Parma, Ente Concerti Pesaro, Amici della Musica di Palermo, Moscow International House of Music, Festival Musikdorf Ernen.
The Quartet won the 39th ‘F. Abbiati Prize – A. Farulli Award 2020, First Prize at the Brahms International Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk, Second Prize at the Gianni Bergamo Competition in Lugano, Third Prize at the Trio di Trieste International Chamber Music Competition and Third Prize at the Pinerolo International Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet also received the President of the Republic's Award in memory of Giuseppe Sinopoli, which was presented by Sergio Mattarella himself during an official ceremony at the Quirinale Palace.
The Quartet's recording debut with the Quartetto Werther, the complete Fauré Quartets for the Brilliant Classics label, received excellent reviews from critics. A new CD inspired by Goethe has recently been released on the German label Genuin.
Antonino owes its piano training to Maria Teresa Carunchio, Lilya Zilberstein and Enrico Pace. His mentors in chamber music are the Trio di Parma, Pierpaolo Maurizzi, and Patrick Jüdt, the artistic director of the ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy), of which the quartet is currently a member.
Having formerly taught piano and chamber music at the T. Schipa Conservatory in Lecce and Ceglie Messapica, he is now chamber music professor at the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro.