Tommaso Lonquich

Musician, psychoanalyst and pedagogue, Tommaso Lonquich has been acclaimed by reviewers as a “formidable clarinetist" and praised for his “passion, sumptuous tone, magical finesse and dazzling virtuosity”. He is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and has served as Solo Clarinetist with Ensemble MidtVest for thirteen years. He has appeared on the most renowned stages of five continents and at major festivals . He has partnered among others with Christian Tetzlaff, Ilya Gringolts, Pekka Kuusisto, David Finckel, Wu Han, Nicolas Altstaedt, as well as with the Danish, Vertavo, Van Kuijk, Noûs, Indaco and Zaïde string quartets. In Denmark, Tommaso Lonquich is the founder and Artistic Director of Schackenborg Musikfest, one of Scandinavia’s most prestigious festivals. Particularly active in the field of improvisation, he has led workshops at the Juilliard School and has collaborated with prominent visual artists, dancers and theatre companies. He can be heard on twenty-five CD releases by CPO, Music@Menlo, NovAntiqua and Brilliant. His recordings have been nominated for a Gramophone Award and for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Alongside his artistic career, Tommaso Lonquich is a practicing psychoanalyst at the International Center for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, which he founded in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a lecturer in Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and a member of the Scientific Committee at OMANUT in Rome.