Alessio Bidoli

Alessio Bidoli (Milan, 18 August 1986) is an Italian violinist.

Biography
His father is a doctor and his mother, Domenica Regazzoni, is a painter and a sculptor.

Since he was a child, Bidoli had hung out at the manifacture of stringed instruments of his grandfather, Dante Paolo Regazzoni, a luthier operating in the second half of the twentieth century in his laboratory in Cortenova, in Valsassina. In this luthiery, Bidoli learned the first music rudiments and so he started to play his grandfather's violins. As a child he was already directed by his parents towards a career as a violinist, enrolling him in the violin course at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan. Here his first teacher was Gigino Maestri. In 2003 he made his debut during a concert as a soloist at the Teatro Signorelli in Cortona, with a repertoire of classical music. The following year, he was one of the winners of the National String Festival of Vittorio Veneto. His educational path finished at the Conservatory in Milan where Bidoli gained a diploma with top marks cum laude in 2006. He continued with various specialization courses at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne and then at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Pierre Amoyal. Furthermore, he attended a specialization course at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Salvatore Accardo. Then he attended another course at the Accademia Internazionale di Imola with Pavel Berman and Oleksandr Semchuk.

Career
In 2007 he collaborated with the Lausanne Chamber directed by Pierre Amoyal, who led him to perform in several European cities including Martigny, Milan and Marseille, during the Festival de Musique à Saint-Victor. In 2011, his career suffered a setback when he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barrè syndrome. He defeated his disease and in the same year he gave a concert with the Società dei Concerti di Milan at the Sala Verdi of the Conservatory. He also performed in Denmark at the Rotary Voorjaarsconcert 2011.

In the following years, he performed as soloist in some concert seasons such as MITO Settembre Musica, Società del Quartetto di Milano and Società dei Concerti di Milano (Sala Verdi), Serate Musicali di Milano, Furcht-Università Bocconi, Amici del Loggia of the Teatro alla Scala, Fondazione Musica Insieme of Bologna,   Friends of Music of Sondalo, Sicilian Association of Friends of Music of Palermo, Arvedi Auditorium of Cremona, Paganiniano Festival of Carro, The Violinist on the Roof of Cremona (Arvedi Auditorium), Bergamo International Culture Festival in collaboration with Sony Classical Italia. In January 2013, he held a concert in Wolfsburg, Germany, at the Gartensaal Schloss.

In October 2015, accompanied on the piano by Luigi Moscatello, he performed at the Obratzsova Cultural Center in St. Petersburg in Russia, with a repertoire composed of music by Niccolò Paganini, Antonio Bazzini, Camillo Sivori, Lipót Auer. The following month, accompanied on the piano by Bruno Canino, he performed during the tenth edition of the Italian Festival in Thailand, held at the auditorium of the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, with a repertoire of music composed by Maurice Ravel, Gaetano Pugnani, Fritz Kreisler, Niccolò Paganini, Robert Schumann, Henryk Wieniawski, Camillo Sivori and Antonio Bazzini. In 2015 he performed at the Teatro di Chiasso together with Vittorio Sgarbi in the theater project Il Fin la Maraviglia, a storytelling made of images and sounds about the Baroque. In 2017, during the XVII Week of the Italian Language in the World, he performed in Riga, accompanied on the piano by Francesco Attesti and on the clarinet by Pietro Tagliaferri, playing music by Antonio Bazzini, Camillo Sivori and Francis Poulenc. On 28 April 2022 he arrived at the Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen proposing music by Handel, Beethoven, Grieg and Ravel, accompanied on the piano by Luigi Moscatello. On 8 April 2023 he performed at Park Avenue in New York during Piano on Park, accompanied on the piano by Jiarong Li. Moreover, he has been invited as a guest on various radio programs such as Radio France, NDR Kultur, RSI, RAI Radio 3, Radio Vaticana, Radio Classica e Radio Popolare.

Bidoli was one of the professors of the G. Donizetti Higher Institute of Musical Studies in Bergamo and for two years he has taught at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Bari, the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory of Genoa and at the Francesco Cilea Conservatory of Reggio Calabria, as well as at the Academy of the Redoubt. He has held masterclasses for violin and chamber music in various Italian cities; in 2020 he became artistic director of the Musica in Corte Festival in Crema while in 2023 he curated the Villa Mirabello Classica Festival in Milan.

Musical repertoire
Over the years he has recovered some manuscripts and some unpublished works by composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns and Luís de Freitas Branco, bringing them back to the attention of the public almost always in collaboration with Bruno Canino. The repertoire of classical music he performed and recorded over the years ranges from classical authors such as Camille Saint-Saëns,  Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij, Francis Poulenc, Sergej Sergeevič Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel  to almost forgotten artists of the music of the late 19th century who, through the paraphrases of Camillo Sivori and Antonio Bazzini, brought Verdi's work into the living rooms,    to unpublished or rarely performed pieces of 20th century music by Goffredo Petrassi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Alfredo Casella,     up to the lesser-known chamber repertoire of Nino Rota,     up to the works, almost unknown outside the borders of Portugal, of the composer Luis De Freitas Branco.

Instruments
Bidoli owns some musical violins. During his concerts, he plays one of the violins made by Stefano Scarampella and one of the instruments made by his grandfather, Dante Paolo Regazzoni.

Recordings
A selection of Bidoli's recorded output includes;


 * 2022: with Bruno Canino (piano), Alain Meunier (cello) - Freitas Branco Complete Violin Sonatas and Piano Trio, Sony Classical
 * 2021: with Stefania Mormone (piano) -  Saint-Saëns / Wieniawski / Grieg / Ponce / Elgar / Debussy  (reissue), Da Vinci Classics
 * 2020: with Bruno Canino (piano), Massimo Mercelli (flute) and Nicoletta Sanzin (harp) - Rota Chamber Works, Decca - Universal Music Group
 * 2019: with Bruno Canino - Verdi Fantasias (reissue), Concerto Classics
 * 2018: with Bruno Canino - Saint Saëns Violin Sonatas, Warner Classics
 * 2017: with Bruno Canino - Poulenc, Ravel, Stravinskij, Prokofiev, Warner Classics
 * 2016: with Bruno Canino - Italian Soul - Anima italiana, Sony Classical
 * 2013: with Bruno Canino (piano) - Verdi: Fantasias for Violin and Piano, Sony Classical
 * 2011: with Stefania Mormone (piano) -  Saint-Saëns / Wieniawski / Grieg / Ponce / Elgar / Debussy  (reissue), Amadeus magazine