Violinist
Paolo Tagliamento is an internationally trained violinist and the first and only Italian winner of the International Violin Competition Premio Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia since 1982.
He graduated at the age of 15 with honors and special mention from the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He initially studied with Salvatore Accardo in Siena and Cremona, and later with Ana Chumachenco in Madrid and Munich, where he obtained both a Master’s degree in Violin and a Soloist Master’s degree. He later completed his fifth academic qualification at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste. In recent years, he has also received artistic guidance and advice from Uto Ughi.
His career has taken him to perform across Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America with orchestras such as I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, the Moscow Soloists, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Simón Bolívar of Caracas. He has performed concerts for the European Parliament as well as for numerous diplomatic missions and Italian Cultural Institutes worldwide, actively contributing to the promotion of Italian musical culture.
Together with guitarist Massimo Scattolin, he released their first live CD during an Australian tour. The duo has performed concerts in Italy and Germany and has produced further recordings, including those from their tours Tribute to Morricone and Homage to Venice.
His artistic collaboration with Andrea Marcon is particularly significant, exploring the Baroque and Mozart repertoire, as well as a recording project dedicated to the complete Sonatas by J. Brahms. In 2023 he was Artist in Residence with I Virtuosi Italiani and won Third Prize at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition with the Trio Michelangeli. In 2024 he was invited as a soloist and teacher at El Sistema in Venezuela.
He was a permanent member of the renowned ensemble Residenz Solisten in Munich.
He is the artistic director of Rencontres Musicales, an international chamber music festival held in the Conegliano area.
He plays the beautiful Santo Serafino “Lachmann” violin (Venice, 1740), formerly owned by Franco Gulli and kindly loaned by the Pro Canale Foundation in Milan.
His career is marked by a constant and profound interpretative and stylistic research, making him a significant figure in the contemporary musical scene both in Italy and abroad.
