Enrico Gatti was born in Perugia and studied with Arnaldo Apostoli (a member of I Musici and a pupil of Remy Principe and Gioconda De Vito) and Alfredo Fiorentini (a pupil of André Gertler in Brussels). After completing his violin diploma, he devoted himself to the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century repertoire. A student of Chiara Banchini, he obtained a diploma in Baroque violin from the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique in Geneva, as well as a teaching qualification from the Swiss Society of Pedagogy. He subsequently pursued advanced studies with Sigiswald Kuijken at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
Throughout his concert career, he has performed throughout Europe, Canada, the United States, South America, Russia, Japan, Korea, and Australia. He has collaborated with ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Ensemble 415, Concerto Palatino, Hespèrion XX, La Real Cámara, and has served as concertmaster for Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, the Taverner Players, The King’s Consort, Ricercar Consort, Bach Collegium Japan, Ensemble Accordone, Accademia W. Hermans, Concerto Köln, ARTEK (New York), De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, and Les Muffatti (Brussels), among others. He has also worked with leading conductors including Gustav Leonhardt and Ton Koopman. He is the founder and director of the ensemble Aurora, established in Italy in 1986, and combines his activities as a soloist with those of a conductor.
His extensive discography includes recordings for Harmonia Mundi (France and Germany), Accent and Ricercar (Belgium), Fonit Cetra, Tactus, and Symphonia (Italy), Arcana and Astrée (France), Glossa (Spain), and Brilliant Classics (The Netherlands), as well as numerous recordings for Italian, French, Swiss, Spanish, Dutch, Belgian, German, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Canadian, and American radio. His recordings have frequently received critical acclaim and have been awarded, among others, the Antonio Vivaldi International Record Prize (1993 and 1998), the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and several Diapason d’Or awards.
He is actively engaged in ongoing research aimed at the rediscovery and promotion of Italy’s musical heritage and is a member of the Scientific Committee responsible for the National Edition of the Opera Omnia of Alessandro Stradella, established by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
Enrico Gatti has carried out significant pedagogical activity over the years, having taught Baroque violin at the Conservatoire of Toulouse, the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique in Geneva, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the Fiesole School of Music, the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan, and the conservatories of Rome, Milan, and Bologna. He is currently Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. His teaching, grounded in the Italian violin tradition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, attracts students from all over the world. He has also been invited to teach at institutions such as the Conservatoires of Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Geneva, Madrid, Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Tel Aviv; the Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen; the Juilliard School (New York); the University of British Columbia; the University of Texas at Austin; the University of Salamanca; and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, as well as at numerous international summer courses and academies.
He has served as a jury member for early music competitions in Bruges (1993), Brescia (1995), Rovereto (1997 and 1998), and Symphonia en Périgord (1998), and from 1997 to 2005 he was Artistic Director of the International Courses of Urbino. In 2010 and 2017, he served as President of the Jury for the Bonporti Prize in Rovereto.
Enrico Gatti is an honorary citizen of Fusignano, the birthplace of Arcangelo Corelli, and served as President of the Scientific Committee for Arcomelo 2013, the international musicological congress held in November 2013 to commemorate the tricentennial of Corelli’s death. On that occasion, he rediscovered, edited, and recorded twelve previously unpublished youthful sonatas attributed to Corelli. In 2023, he curated the organization of a new research project devoted to Giuseppe Torelli.
His most recent work, Praeconium Solitudinis, has been described as “a new paradigm of musical utopia.”

Further information about Enrico Gatti can be found at:

https://www.enrico-gatti.com/

About The Class

This course is intended for participants who already possess a bow and an instrument set up according to historical principles, and who have at least a basic level of experience in the field.

Programme:
Fundamentals of posture, sound production, bow technique, and left-hand technique from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
The imitation of the human voice as the Art of playing the violin, explored in all its technical and musical aspects: pronunciation, articulation, and phrasing.
Foundations of historical intonation and of the art of diminution and ornamentation

Suggested Repertoire

The choice is entirely free within the whole European repertoire ranging from the second half of the sixteenth century to the first two decades of the nineteenth century.

Level Of Skills Required

advanced & professionals

Maximum number of students

8

Teaching Languages

English, Italian, French, Spanish