THE ATTADEMO GRAMAGLIA DUO

The Duo:

Founded in 2012, from two artists’ idea to unite the unique and fascinating
sonorities of the viola and the guitar in an ensemble that could ennoble them
both, not only through the peculiarities of their timbre but also from the point
of view of chamber music, thanks to their natural balance and fusion. This
permits the duo to explore a vast repertoire, from Bach to the contemporaries,
and to appreciate the deepest musical and structural aspects of the works
thanks to the instruments’ natural affinity and ability to create a dialogue
between themselves.

The album:

The duo’s first album is dedicated to the works of Paganini, released by Brilliant
Classics in January 2015 and which has achieved great critical success (CD of
the month in Amadeus, 5 star rating in Archi magazine.)

Amadeus, September 2015 – CD of the month.

“Gramaglia’s performance is spectacular.” (M. Riboni)

Archi Magazine, December 2015 – 5 stars

“A program of this nature requires a magisterial interpretation and Simone
Gramaglia and Luigi Attademo are absolutely up to the task.” (M. Ballarini)
Proposed Program

I. Schubertiade

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Sonata l'Arpeggione D.821 (dall’originale per Arpeggione e

Fortepiano) I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Allegretto

°°°°°°

Cinque Lieder da Schwanengesang D.957 (trascr. di J.K. Mertz)

Liebesbotschaft

Ständchen

Aufenthalt

Das Fischermädchen Die Traubenpost

II. The art of the transcription

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) 

Sonata BWV 1020 
(dall’originale per cembalo e flauto, trascr. Hoppstock)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Mauro Montalbetti (1969)

Löschen (nuova composizione scritta per il duo Attademo-

Gramaglia)

Niccolò Paganini (1782- 1840)

Sonata MS26 No.1 Minuetto: Adagio Polonese: Quasi Allegro

Sonata MS26 No.3 Adagio Maestoso Andantino galantemente

Sonata Concertata (dall'originale per violino e chitarra) I. Allegro

spiritoso

II. Adagio assai espressivo

III. Rondeau

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Sonata l'Arpeggione D.821 (dall’originale per Arpeggione e

Fortepiano) I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Allegretto

CONTACT:
Simone Gramaglia simone@quartettodicremona.it cell.: 3392028871
Luigi Attademo luigiattademo@libero.it cell.: 3491405346
Simone Gramaglia is the violist of the Quartetto di Cremona, with whom he has
performed all over the world in the past fifteen years.
As a soloist he has performed with various orchestras presenting N. Paganini’s Sonata
per la Gran Viola and is considered one of the foremost violists of his generation.
Since 2012 he has played in a duet with guitarist Luigi Attademo. Among his other
favorite musical collaborators he counts Andrea Lucchesini, Lawrence Dutton and
Jamie Walton.
His teachers were Mikhail Kugel, Bruno Giuranna and Yuri Bashmet, and he has also
taken great inspiration from his friend and mentor Hatto Beyerle.
He is a professor of the String Quartet department at the Accademia Stauffer in
Cremona and director of the viola and quartet courses at Master4Strings, and holds
master classes throughout Europe. He writes the column “Quartet Corner” in Archi
Magazine and studies philosophy at the University of Genoa.

Considered one of the most important guitarists of his generation, Luigi Attademo
began his artistic journey winning third prize at the “Concours International
d’Execution Musicale” in Geneva in 1995. Born into the school of guitarist-composer
Angelo Gilardino, he counts Giovanni Guanti, Julius Kalmar, Alessandro Solbiati and
Emilia Fadini among his teachers.
He earned his degree in Philosophy with a thesis on musical interpretation, has
published various articles on musicological and aesthetic themes, collaborated with
specialized journals and presented his work on Italy’s Radio3 and Radio Toscana
Classica. He has recorded 10 CD’s, among them albums dedicated to the Sonatas of
Domenico Scarlatti, to J.S. Bach, to original manuscripts found in the Segovia Archive
and to the Quintets of Luigi Boccherini.
He dedicates most of his musical activities to monograph projects, among them his
recent recording of the complete Suites for Lute by J.S. Bach (2011, Brilliant Classics)
and a project on Paganini and contemporary music (performed so far in Berlin, Vienna,
New York and at the 2012 MiTo Festival.)
In recent years he has held seminars and concerts at the Royal Academy of Music in
London (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014) at Melbourne University on the repertoire of Andres
Segovia (2010), and in 2011 was a guest of the prestigious Festival of the Guitar
Foundation of America presenting a program dedicated to music of the Baroque.
Among his recent projects are the publication of an anthology and CD of the
contemporary music for guitar dedicated to Paganini (Ed. Sinfonica) and the complete
works for solo guitar of Niccolo Paganini recorded for the first time in their entirety on
a period instrument (Brilliant, 2013.) In 2014 the journal Amadeus dedicated their May
issue to him with the publication of a monograph CD on Fernando Sor. He is currently
a professor at the ISSM “G. Donizetti” in Bergamo and frequently collaborates with the
HEM in Geneva and Lausanne.