Laura Calamosca began her violin studies with Camillo Grasso, concertmaster of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Teatro Regio of Turin and the Teatro dell\u2019Opera of Rome. She continued her training with Settimia Moretti, graduating in 1987 from the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro with top marks and honours.
She subsequently specialised under the guidance of Mario Ferraris, concertmaster of the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and first solo violin of the ensemble I Solisti Aquilani. In 1988 she attended an annual course with Ferraris on twentieth-century violin repertoire at the Scuola Superiore di Musica del Novecento in Atri, obtaining a diploma of advanced studies with the distinction \u201cExcellent\u201d. She has performed both as a soloist and in various chamber ensembles, ranging from violin and piano duo to quintet. In a number of concert series, she collaborated in violin duo with the late Antonio Anselmi, first solo violin of the renowned ensemble I Musici, performing S. Prokofiev\u2019s Sonata for Two Violins Op. 56 and J. S. Bach\u2019s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor.
Over time, orchestral performance became her main activity: for over thirty years, from 1989 to 2020, she was a permanent member of the FORM \u2013 Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana. She has also collaborated with the Orchestra of I Filarmonici di Torino, the Rossini Chamber Orchestra, the Bologna Chamber Orchestra and the Rossini Philharmonic Orchestra, taking part in major productions in Italy and abroad with internationally renowned artists including Carlo Maria Giulini, Donato Renzetti, Gustav Kuhn, Alberto Zedda, Hubert Soudant, J\u00e1nos \u00c1cs, Georgi Dimitrov, Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Gidon Kremer, Boris Belkin, Alexander Lonquich, Natalia Gutman, Enrico Dindo, Mario Brunello, Luciano Pavarotti, Jos\u00e9 Carreras, Mirella Freni, Cristiano Rossi, Maxence Larrieu, Severino Gazzelloni, et al.
Alongside her professional activity, she has maintained an extensive teaching career. In 1991 she obtained a teaching appointment in violin at the \u201cA. Corelli\u201d Civic School of Music in Cesena. From 1992, for twelve years, she taught violin in lower secondary school music programmes, holding a permanent contract following qualification (teaching class AM77), established in 2000. From 1995 to 2000 she taught violin at the \u201cG. B. Pergolesi\u201d Musical Institute of Ancona. Having passed the national competition for tenured positions in state conservatoires (Ministerial Decree 18 July 1990), in 2005 she was appointed tenured professor of violin in conservatoires. She is currently Professor of Violin at the Rossini Conservatoire in Pesaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Laura Calamosca began her violin studies with Camillo Grasso, concertmaster of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Teatro Regio of Turin and the Teatro dell\u2019Opera of Rome. She continued her training with Settimia Moretti, graduating in 1987 from the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro with top marks and honours.She subsequently specialised under the guidance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":593244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/docenti-child.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-592697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n