Andrea Nocerino

The artist

Andrea Nocerino

Trained with the cellist Silvia Chiesa and graduated with honors and honorable mention at the Conservatory of Cremona, in recent years he has shared the stage with established performers such as Maurizio Baglini, Guido Corti, Roberto Noferini, Francesco Fiore, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Fine Arts Quartet and Silvia Chiesa, as well as with some of the best musicians of his generation. He has performed in important competitions including “Amiata Piano Festival”, “Teatro di Villa Torlonia”, “Auditorium Arvedi”, “Museo del Teatro Alla Scala”, “Musica Vicenza”, “Auditorium Gaber” in Milan, “Teatro Ponchielli” in Cremona or “Musei Vaticani”. Abroad he was invited to Croatia (Rijeka), France (Musique en Madiran), the United States (University of Chicago) and South Korea (Goryeong Gun Nuri Hall).

As a soloist he gave concerts throughout Italy, also deepening the study of the Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach to which he dedicated his debut record. Attentive to the contemporary repertoire, he is dedicatee of some works for solo cello among which a recent piece by the composer Marco Betta stands out; he also performs in several premieres and collaborates actively with festivals and ensembles of the national scene. He has recorded for Rai Radio3, Amadeus, Movimento Classical.
At the beginning of 2019, in collaboration with the Violin Museum of Cremona, he was entrusted with the task of recording and cataloging the sound of the "ex Cristiani-Stauffer" Stradivari Cello for the international project of the "Sound Bank".
Currently the Violin Museum of Cremona has designated him as custodian musician of the precious Stradivarius Cello and reference for all the historical instruments of the collection.