Matteo Cimatti, violin
Programme 1
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Violin Sonata No.1 in G, Op. 78
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a
Interval
ARTHUR KEEGAN
YCAT Composer Fellow Commission (TBC)
CLARA SCHUMANN
Drei Romanzen, Op. 28
MAURICE RAVEL
Violin Sonata no 2 in G Major, M. 77
Programme 2 (1 hour)
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Violin Sonata No.1 in G, Op. 78
ARTHUR KEEGAN
YCAT Composer Fellow Commission (TBC)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Theme and Variations
MAURICE RAVEL
Violin Sonata no 2 in G Major, M. 77
Programmes are samples only - amendments can be discussed directly with the Artist.
Biography
Award winning Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti has been praised for his “...refined playing and melodious and intense tone…” (ANSA). Based between London and Switzerland, he has appeared alongside several European orchestras and at numerous festivals, and is also an accomplished and enthusiastic chamber player. In May 2025, he was selected as one of the winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Final Auditions.
Highlights from the 25/26 season include debuts at Wigmore Hall and Frankfurt Alte Oper as well recitals at Cambridge Summer Music, St George’s Bristol and concerto appearances with the London Firebird and Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestras. He also performed internationally at festivals including Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Fruhling, Beethovenfest Bonn, Musikdorf Ernen Kammermusik and Bendigo Festival in Australia.
2026/27 continues apace for Matteo, with returns to Frankfurt Alte Oper, Wigmore Hall and Beethovenfest Bonn alongside debuts at Berlin Philharmonie and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as concerto appearances with Plymouth Symphony Orchestra and the Opera North Youth Orchestra performing the Mendellssohn and Bruch Concertos respectively.
In 2024, Matteo graduated from the Haute École Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, where he most recently studied with Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He has appeared as a soloist alongside several orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and has performed in numerous festivals and concert seasons such as the Sion Festival, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Festival dei Due Mondi, Musikdorf Ernen and the Ticino Music Festival among others.
Matteo has received awards from the Rahn Kulturfonds and the Concours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne, and has been a prize winner in leading competitions including the Concours Feast of Duos International, Premio Postacchini International Violin, and Premio Crescendo.
A chamber music enthusiast from a very young age, Matteo enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player. He is a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel.
Matteo plays a 1769 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor.
