Matteo Fossi

Born in Florence, Matteo Fossi studied at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole from his early childhood. Among his most important teachers were Piero Farulli, Maria Tipo and Pier Narciso Masi. After graduation he attended master classes with Alexander Lonquich, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maurizio Pollini. He’s now considered one of the most important Italian chamber music performers. He has long played in a duo with violinist Lorenza Borrani; In 1995 he founded the Quartetto Klimt, one of the leading chamber music groups in Italy, and he has been playing in a piano duo with Marco Gaggini with whom he carried out the first recording ever of works for two pianos by Brahms, Bartók, Poulenc and Schoenberg. With these formations, and as a soloist, Fossi has performed in all the most significant musical seasons in Italy and abroad, in important theaters and festivals. He regularly collaborates with international artists, and records for Nimbus, Decca, Brilliant, Universal, Hortus, Amadeus, Unicef, Limen Classics, and Naxos. He also teaches piano at the Conservatorio ‘B. Marcello’ in Venice and chamber music at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. He was one of the founders and is currently the Artistic Director of the Association ‘Nuovi Eventi Musicali’, inviting and playing with great musicians such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Mstislav Rostropovich, Mauricio Kagel, Krisztof Penderecki, Kronos Quartet, Irina Schnittke, Alexander Ivashkin, Boris Berman, Valery Polyansky, Suzanne Linke and Antony Pay.