Born in 1974 into a family of musicians, Duccio Ceccanti began his study of the violin with his father at the age of five and graduated with the highest distinction at the Florence Luigi Cherubini Conservatory as a pupil of Andrea Tacchi, thereafter completing his studies with Stefan Gheorghiu, Felix Andriewski, Salvatore Accardo and Boris Belkin. He has appeared as a soloist and in chamber music in leading venues and festivals, including the Venice Music Biennale, the Palermo Teatro Massimo, the Naples Teatro San Carlo, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Bologna Teatro Comunale, Florence Maggio Musicale, Siena Accademia Chigiana, the Prague International Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Lyons Festival, Buenos Aires Teatro Coliseo, and the Santiago Teatro Municipal. He has given first performances of works by Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Sotelo, Peter Maxwell Davies, Azio Corghi, Goffredo Petrassi, Luciano Berio and Fabio Vacchi, and appeared as a soloist with the Contempoartensemble, the Ensemble Strumentale dell’Accademia Chigiana and the Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia Giulia. He gives master-classes at the Accademia Chigiana, and plays a violin of 1667 by Nicola Amati.

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