Mario Brunello
In 1986, cellist Mario Brunello became the first Italian to take first prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He has gone on to an international career as a soloist, chamber player, orchestra founder and conductor, and musical entrepreneur.
Brunello was born in Castelfranco in Italy's northern Veneto region in 1960. He studied at the Venice Conservatory of Music, where his principal teachers were Adriano Vendramelli and Antonio Janigro, the latter a cellist with whom Brunello would come to share an interest in conducting as well. In 1986, he took first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in the cello section, sharing the honor with Kirill Rodin. In 1994, Brunello founded the Orchestra d'Archi Italiana, with which he has continued to perform and conduct. In 1995, Brunello made his recording debut with the Villa-Lobos Orchestra on a recording of Villa-Lobos' Bachiana Brasileiras on the Ermitage label. In 2001, he was featured with a group of other Italian players on the Aura label in a recording of Brahms' Sextets.
Brunello has continued to play and record chamber music enthusiastically. His collaborators are a distinguished group that includes pianists Martha Argerich and Maurizio Pollini, violinist Gideon Kremer, and the Borodin and Alban Berg Quartets. Brunello's orchestral credits include appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. He is active as a jazz performer, and he plays the rare Baroque violoncello piccolo. Brunello has served as artistic director of the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and in his hometown of Castelfranco, he maintains a busy schedule of concerts, lectures, and more at an old ironwork factory, the Capannone Antiruggine. Brunello has recorded for the Egea, Alpha, and Arcana labels, among others; on Arcana, he released a recording of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Four Sonatas for Solo Cello in 2024.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Weinberg: The Four Sonatas for Solo Cello
Classical - Released by Arcana on Mar 22, 2024
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Bach & Vivaldi: Sonar in ottava. Double Concertos for Violin and Violoncello Piccolo
Giuliano Carmignola, Mario Brunello, Accademia dell'Annunciata, Riccardo Doni
Classical - Released by Arcana on Mar 20, 2020
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Bach Transcriptions: Six Concertos for Violoncello Piccolo
Mario Brunello, Accademia dell'Annunciata, Riccardo Doni
Classical - Released by Arcana on Jan 6, 2023
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Descansado - Songs For Films
Norma Winstone, Glauco Venier, Klaus Gesing, Helge Andreas Norbakken, Mario Brunello
Vocal Jazz - Released by ECM Records on Feb 16, 2018
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Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violoncello Piccolo
Classical - Released by Arcana on Oct 18, 2019
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Searching for Ludwig (Beethoven, Sollima, Ferré)
Mario Brunello, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Oct 23, 2020
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Giuseppe Tartini: Concerti e Sonate per violoncello piccolo
Mario Brunello, Accademia dell'Annunciata, Riccardo Doni
Classical - Released by Arcana on Nov 13, 2020
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Bach: Sei suonate à cembalo certato è violoncello piccolo solo (Transcription for violoncello piccolo and continuo)
Mario Brunello, Roberto Loreggian, Francesco Galligioni
Classical - Released by Arcana on Sep 10, 2021
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Bach: sei suites a violoncello solo senza basso
Classical - Released by Egea Srl on May 25, 2018
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Bach: Cello Suites
Classical - Released by NAR International on Apr 1, 2022
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Concerti per violoncello e orchestra
Classical - Released by Egea Srl on May 25, 2018
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Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Mario Brunello, Andrea Lucchesini
Classical - Released by NAR International on Apr 1, 2022
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Bach: Suites For Cello Solo, BWV 1007-1012
Chamber Music - Released by Amadeus Best on Oct 24, 2022
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Mario Brunello & Ivano Battiston Play In croce
Mario Brunello, Ivano Battiston
Classical - Released by Velut Luna on Sep 1, 2001
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Violoncello and
Classical - Released by Egea Srl on May 25, 2018
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Lekeu & Schubert sonatas
Mario Brunello, Andrea Lucchesini
Classical - Released by Egea Srl on May 25, 2018
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Boccherini: Stabat Mater - Symphonic & Chamber Masterpieces
Il Quartettone, Tatiana Korovina, Mario Brunello, Carlo De Martini, Le Ricordanze
Concertos - Released by Amadeus Best on Oct 24, 2022
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Arnold Schoenberg · Igor Stravinsky · Anton Webern
Mario Brunello, Orchestra d'Archi Italiana
Classical - Released by Nar Classical on Apr 19, 2024
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Orchestra Villa-Lobos • Mario Brunello, Cello • Giovanna Gomiero, Soprano: Bach • Villa-Lobos • Jobim
Mario Brunello, Giovanna Gomiero, Orchestra Villa-Lobos
Classical - Released by Ermitage Records on Apr 30, 2020
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