Trio di Parma

Enrico Bronzi, violoncello

Alberto Miodini, pianoforte

Ivan Rabaglia, violino

The Trio di Parma was formed in 1990 at the A. Boito conservatory of music in Parma under Maestro Pierpaolo Maurizzi, and went on to study with the famous Trio di Trieste at the Fiesole School of Music and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. In 2000 the Trio was invited to participate in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in New York.

The Trio di Parma won the highest acclaim at the Concorso Internazionale "Vittorio Gui" International Competition in Florence and international chamber music competitions in Melbourne (Australia), ARD Munich (Germany) and Lyon (France).  In 1994, the Trio was awarded the Abbiati Prize for best chamber music ensemble by the Italian Association of Music Critics. 

The Trio has been a guest at the most important musical institutions both at home (Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, Societa' del Quartetto in Milan, Amici della Musica in Florence, Unione Musicale in Turin, Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venice, GOG in Genoa and Accademia Filarmonica Romana) and abroad (Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, London's Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Lockenhaus Festival, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Barossa Music Festival and in Hamburg, Dublin, Warsaw, Los Angeles, Washington, Adelaide, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo). They have collaborated with important musicians such as Vladimir Delman, Carl Melles, Pavel Vernikov, Bruno Giuranna, Alessandro Carbonare, Eduard Brunner and has taken part in numerous TV and radio recordings for the Italian state network RAI as well as various foreign stations (Bayerischer Rundfunk, NDR, WDR, MDR, Radio Bremen, ORT and ABC-Classic Australia).

They have recorded the complete Trios of Brahms for UNICEF, and the trios of Beethoven and Ravel for the music magazine Amadeus, Shostakovich's trios for Stradivarius (awarded best recording of the year in 2008 from Classic Voice magazine). Moreover, they have also recorded chamber music for trio by Pizzetti, Liszt, Schumann and Dvorak for the label Concerto.  The Trio di Parma holds instrumental and chamber music courses at the Conservatories in Novara and Gallarate, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the International Chamber Music Academy in Duino and the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole.

Ivan Rabaglia plays a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin made in Piacenza in 1744 and Enrico Bronzi plays a cello made by Vincenzo Panormo in London in 1775.