Biography
Gennaro Cardaropoli is considered to be one of the best young Italian talents of today and in 2022 he won the
“YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2022” award assigned by a jury of 17 members from all over Europe.
His discographic debut with Warner Classics was in 2019, together with pianist Alberto Ferro. The duo is invited
to play during the main Italian Chamber Seasons on a regular basis.
He performed as a soloist in the Symphony Orchestra of Salerno “Verdi”, the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra of
Milan, the Sicilian Symphony, the Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra, the Marchigiana Philharmonic, the Verdi of
Milan, the Toscanini of Parma and with the Orchestra San Carlo of Naples. He also performed for the Bologna
Festival, the Brescia and Bergamo Festivals, the Friends of Music in Florence, the GOG in Genoa, the Concert
Society of Milan, the Chigiana Music Academy of Siena, the Philharmonic Society of Trento, the Fenice Theater
Foundation in Venice and for the ‘Musical Union of Turin.
Other important theaters that see Cardaropoli as a protagonist are the Opéra of Monte Carlo, the Auditorium de
la Fundación Eutherpe of León, the Auditorio Nacional de Música of Madrid, the Swedish History Museum (Barock
Hall) of Stockholm, the Musikverein of Vienna, the Queen’s University Hall of Belfast, the Philharmonie of Paris
and Toulouse, the Kaunas Symphony Hall and the Lithuanian National Symphony Hall of Vilnius, the
Ekaterinburg Opera House, the Italian Embassy of Berlin, the Italian and French Embassy of Tunis and Italian
Embassy of Paris. Furthermore, he performed at the Huberman Festival in Israel and at the Eurasia Festival. In the
United States, he performed at the Carnegie Hall of New York, at the Philadelphia Concert Hall and at the
Washington Lincoln Center; he performed in Tampa, Orlando and Miami with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra,
and also in Nevada with the Reno Symphony Orchestra. He also took part to a tour in Israel (Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem) and in China (Hainan, Shanghai and Beijing).
When he was only 17, he was awarded with the 1st Grand Prize at the Arthur Grumiaux International Violin
Competition. Other important prizes he won are the 1st Prize at the Vittorio Veneto Festival, the 1st Soloist Prize
at the Violin Competition of the “Filarmonica della Scala” of Milan, the 1st Prize at the “Premio Nazionale delle
Arti” (promoted by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) as best Italian violinist, the 1st Place in
the RAI 1 live streaming of “Uno Mattino in famiglia – Conservatori a Confronto”, the 1st Place at the prestigious
Claudio Abbado competition, the 1st Grand Prize at the Stockholm Violin Competition and the title of best soloist
of Salerno awarded by the Claudio Abbado Symphony Orchestra.
Cardaropoli was born in Salerno in 1997. When he was only 9, he performed before His Holiness the Pope
Benedict XVI in the Vatican’s Nervi Hall on RAI live streaming. He graduated at 15 from the Domenico Cimarosa
Conservatory of Avellino with top marks and honorable mention, and completed his academic studies with a
degree from the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland under the guidance of Maestro Pavel Berman. Later, he
studied with Maestro Vadim Brodsky, Salvatore Accardo, Boris Belkin, Zakhar Bron, Shlomo Mintz and Silvia
Marcovici.
He’s currently teaching at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory of Rome. Cardaropoli lives in Rome and plays the
Pietro Guarneri, Venice 1735 ex Francisco Costa violin thanks to the kind concession of the Pro Canale Foundation of Milan.
