Born in 1988, Lorenzo Rovati graduated with highest honors from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan. He pursued further advanced studies with Felice Cusano at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and subsequently at the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg, where he obtained both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees under the guidance of Daniel Gaede.
Since many years he is active as a guest concertmaster with numerous orchestras, including the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra La Toscanini, Orchestra Leonore, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Teatro Petruzzelli, Teatro Bellini di Catania and Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. Since 2023 he has collaborated with Utopia Orchestra and musicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, performing on international tours in some of the most prestigious concert halls in Europe and worldwide, such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Megaron Athens, Müpa Budapest, Teatro alla Scala, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and the Salzburg Festspielhaus.
In 2022 he was a guest of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Chailly.
His artistic curiosity has also led him to explore the fields of classical and Baroque performance practice. During his formative years he took part in the Spira Mirabilis project, and more recently he was invited as guest concertmaster on a tour in Mexico and Colombia with Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi.
Alongside his activity as concertmaster, he maintains an intense chamber music and solo career. Since 2016 he has been violinist in residence at the Festival Ritratti in Monopoli, where he has performed with artists such as Benedetto Lupo, Enrico Bronzi, Emanuele Arciuli, Marcelo Nisinman, Stephen Prutsman, Cristina Zavalloni, Richard Galliano and Antonia Valente. He has also appeared at festivals including Trame Sonore in Mantua and the Euro Chamber Music Festival in Gdańsk.
Among his solo appearances are Brahms’ Violin Concerto Op. 77 with the Westböhmische Symphonie Orchester in Marienbad, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Op. 61 with the Orchestra Filarmonica Pozzoli conducted by Luigi Ballabio, and Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole Op. 21 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana conducted by Ottavio Marino.
With the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo he has performed Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante, Bottesini’s Gran Duo Concertante alongside double bassist Alberto Bocini, and Mozart’s Violin Concerto K. 218 as soloist and conductor.
He has also conducted as Maestro concertatore Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 Op. 21 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (broadcast on RAI Radio 3), Handel’s Water Music at the Chiostro dei Benedettini, and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat in a production directed by Cecilia Ligorio.
He plays a fine anonymous violin built around 1810.
