double bass,
violone,
historically informed
performance practice
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Nicola Barbieri studied the double bass and early bass instruments (early double bass, Italian violone and Viennese violone) in Italy (Brescia and Milan), Holland (The Hague, with Maggie Urquhart and Anthony Woodrow), England (London, with Chi Chi Nwanoku) and Germany (Berlin, with Klaus Stoll and Jeanne Saksala); he attended several post-graduate courses and Master Classes (Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, with Proff. Klaus Stoll, Thomas Martin, etc....).
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Soon he began intense freelancing activity with some of the most important groups and orchestras of the international scene, performing, as a Principal/Solo Double Bass, for major Festivals, important concert halls and prestigious musical institutions, among which: Lufthansa Festival London, Barbican Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, “Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” in Rome, Carnegie Hall, “G. Enescu Festival”, Salle Gaveau, Kiev Philharmonic, Opera de Montecarlo, Krakow Philharmonik, Palau de la Musica and Palau des Arts in Valencia, Amuz in Anversa, “Dias de Musica em Belem” in Lisboa, “Teatro alla Scala”, “Fondazione Pergolesi - Spontini” in Jesi, Wien Konzerthaus, “Associazione Scarlatti” in Naples, “Opera National” de Montpellier, “Palais Montcalm” in Quebec, “I Concerti della Normale” in Pisa, “Mozart Fest Wuerzburg”, “Via Stellae” in Santiago de Compostela”, “Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci”, “Settimane Musicali Gustav Mahler”, “Festival Oudemuziek Utrecht”, “internazionale Haendel- Festspiele Goettinghen”, “MiTo Settembre Musica”, “Accademia Filarmonica Romana”, “Dresdner Musikfestspiele”, “Stresa Festival”, “Herrenhausen Barock” in Hannover, “Festival de Radio France”, “Semana Santa” in Madrid, “Societa del Quartetto di Milano” and many others...
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Among the collaboration’s requests, the groups and the soloists with which he played, on early instruments: “La Risonanza” with Fabio Bonizzoni, “Ghislieri Consort”, “Il Giardino Armonico”, “Modo Antiquo”, “Les Musiciens du Louvre”, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, “L’Aura Soave”, Sergio Azzolini, “Dolce & Tempesta”, “I Barocchisti”, Maurice Steger, “Le Cercle de l'Harmonie”, Anthony Pay, EUBO, “La Divina Armonia”, Christophe Coin, “Europa Galante”, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Ton Koopman, “Il Complesso Barocco”, “La Venexiana”, “Cappella della Pieta dei Turchini”, “Capella Cracoviensis”, “Arte de’ Suonatori”, “Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightment”, “Ensemble Baroque de Limoges”, Cecilia Bartoli and countless chamber music projects.
With the modern instrument, he has been invited to perform, also as Principal Bass with: “Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milan, “Accademia i Filarmonici” in Verona, l’”Orchestra da Camera di Mantova”, "St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra", “Milano Classica”, “Spira Mirabilis”, “Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala”, “Streicherakademie Bozen”, “Fondazione Toscanini”, “Mahler Chamber Orchestra”, etc... under the musical direction of conductors such as: Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Simon Rattle, Frans Bruggen, Mark Elder, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta and many others.
Numerous are also the collaborations for Contemporary Music and New Music projects, first performances and recordings: Misato Mochizuki, Ensemble MDI, Gustav Kuhn, Gabriele Vanoni, Prof. Louis Andriessen's Composition Class at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, in Holland, Renato Rivolta, etc...
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He served as assistant at the State Music Conservatorium “Luca Marenzio” in Brescia. Parallel to his musical career, he also studied Architecture at the “Politecnico di Milano” and Philosophy at the University of Verona.
Nicola Barbieri is currently a Professor of Double Bass at the “Antonio Stradivari” Institute in Cremona, Lecturer of Double bass and Music History at the “Accademia Alban Berg – Libero Conservatorio di Musica” in Pescara and he was recently invited, following an international selection, to teach at the “Edward Said” Conservatory - “Birzeit University” in Jerusalem.
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