Maurizio Grandinetti

Maurizio Grandinetti performed in numerous European countries, Brazil, the USA and China. He is a permanent member of the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, with whom he has performed many world premieres by Rebecca Saunders, Vinko Globokar, Jürg Wyttenbach, Rudolf Kelterborn, Heinz Holliger, among others. In 2003, he released the solo CD Equivoc,i with works by John Cage and John Dowland, which received critical acclaim and won several prizes. His CD Seek, which includes seven commissioned works for solo electric guitar, was release in 2016, followed in 2019 by his CD Rime on the label Dux, which contains his own compositions and arrangements of Baroque music. For more than 20 years Maurizio Grandinetti taught guitar at Italian conservatoires, most recently at the Conservatort Giuseppe Verdi in Como. From 2010 to 2021 he taught at international Masterclasses at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik in Montepulciano, Italy. He studied with Oscar Ghiglia and Hopkinson Smith at the Musik-Akademie in Basel.