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Giuliano Carmignola (Treviso, 1951) is an Italian violinist.
Life
Coming from a family of musicians, Carmignola began his violin studies with the support of his father Antonio to enter the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia with Luigi Ferro. Upon completion of his studies, he worked with Nathan Milstein and Franco Gulli at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and with Henryk Szeryng at the Geneva conservatory. His musical focus is on the Italian music of the 18th century. He plays a violin by Pietro Guarneri from 1733.
In the 1970s, he undertook international concert tours with the ensemble I Virtuosi di Roma, often collaborating with a piano and string trio. In 1971 he won the Premio Citta di Vittorio Veneto competition and in 1973 the 5th prize in the Paganini competition in Genoa.
In the subsequent period, he joined with the most renowned orchestras in Europe, under conductors such as Claudio Abbado and Eliahu Inbal. For ten years he was professor of violin at the Venice Conservatory and taught at the Music Academy of Siena. From 1978 to 1985 he was concert master of the opera orchestra at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In 1999 he was appointed to the Academy of Music Lucerne. Since then he has collaborated with the ensemble I Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca and the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Carmignola has participated in a number of Baroque music festivals, such as those in Bruges, Lucerne, Vienna, Brussels, Salzburg and Barcelona.