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Awards
- De Sono Artist 2024 (viola) · 2024
- Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition Bruxelles
- Caneres Music Competition Vienna
- Val Tidone - Chamber Music Competition
Education
- Master of Arts in Music Performance (Lugano) — Master of Arts in Music Performance
- Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy (Lugano) — Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy
- Accademia Chigiana — Student (violin) in 2025
- Avos Project - Scuola di Musica Internazionale — Annual Viola Advanced Courses (2024/2025) in Luca Ranieri's class
- Palazzo Chigi Saracini (Siena) — Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy (2025)
Past ensembles
- Orchestra Musicarte — soloist (first solo concert at 11)
- Orchestra del Borromeo — performer (J. Haydn Concert in G Major)
- United Soloists Swiss Orchestra — soloist and concertmaster (China tour)
- Orchestra Giovanile L. Cherubini — participation (Vie dell'Amicizia project)
- Medhelan Duo — violin/viola with pianist Matteo Generani
Teachers
- Pavel Berman, Anna Modesti, Luca Ranieri, Massimo Zicari, Guido Rimonda, Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, Igor Volochine, Anton Sorokov, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Alon Goldstein, Robert McDonald, Joseph Genualdi, Ilya Gringolts, Luca Ranieri
Collaborations
- United Soloists Swiss Orchestra, conducted by Arseny Shkaptzov (China tour), Orchestra del Borromeo (J. Haydn Concert in G Major, recorded by Forte?Fortissimo!TV), Medhelan Duo with pianist Matteo Generani (Italy, Austria, Belgium, USA), Emerald Coast Music Alliance (Artist in Residence, 2025) — shared stage with Alon Goldstein and Amit Peled, Orchestra Giovanile L. Cherubini (Vie dell'Amicizia project, broadcast on Rai1, conducted by M° Riccardo Muti), Genaro Mendez (collaborations in Missouri and Kansas), Director Achille Mauri and composer Andrea La Pietra (film music project for Arc'teryx and Hilton Productions), Orchestra Giovanile L. Cherubini, Vie dell'Amicizia project (2022 and 2023 editions)
Biography
Doriano Giovanni Maria Di Domenico is an Italian-Swiss violinist, violist and music educator. He is a De Sono Artist 2024 for viola, and was selected for the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 2025 and 2026 (Diploma of Merit in 2026) for violin with Ilya Gringolts. He has won prizes in national and international competitions, including the Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition in Brussels, the Caneres Music Competition in Vienna and the Val Tidone Chamber Music Competition.
In 2025 he was concertmaster on the United Soloists Orchestra’s 14-concert tour of China.
With pianist Matteo Generani he forms the Medhelan Duo, devoted to Italian repertoire and combining research with performance; the duo has played in Italy, Austria, Belgium and the USA. In 2025 it was Artist in Residence of the Emerald Coast Music Alliance (Florida), giving 19 concerts and sharing the stage with artists such as Alon Goldstein and Amit Peled.
Among his many orchestral collaborations is the Orchestra Cherubini conducted by Riccardo Muti, with tours in Italy, Slovenia, France and Jordan.
He holds a Master of Arts in Music Performance (violin, Pavel Berman) and a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy (Anna Modesti) from the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, and a second-level Academic Diploma in viola from the Conservatorio di Novara (Luca Ranieri). He plays a violin by Iginio Siega (1925) and a viola by Mattia Riva (2012).
Videos
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