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Irene Abrigo | |
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| Born | 3 December 1988 Turin, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian, Swiss |
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| Years active | 2007 - present |
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| Style | Classical |
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| Website | www |
Irene Abrigo (born 3 December 1988) is an Italian classical violinist.
Abrigo started the violin at age 4 at the Aosta Suzuki School with Adriano Coluccio. At age 10 she continued her studies with Fabrizio Pavone and graduated at the Turin Conservatory at age 19. She moved then in Switzerland to study at the HEM Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève in the class of Marie-Annick Nicolas where she had her Master of Performance (2009–2011). She continued her studies with Pierre Amoyal in the HEMU Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne and Mozarteum Salzburg (2012–2014). She obtained the Pedagogy Master at the HKB Hoschule der Künste Bern in the class of Corina Belcea (2016–2018).
Graduated at Liceo Classico "XXIV February" in Aosta, she had in 2015 the Degree in Art, Literature and Performance (DAMS) at the University of Turin with a thesis about Niccolò Paganini.
Abrigo has won over 10 National and International Music Prizes, and was Finalist laureate of the Italian National Violin Competition 2014 "Città di Vittorio Veneto" .
Winning the 2015 Respighi Prize, Abrigo made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2016 with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, [6] performing the NY première of the violin concerto by Dirk Brossé "Black, White and in Between". [7] In 2016 she also performed in Brazil the South America Premiere of the Respighi's Violin Concerto No.1 and she had her debut with the West Czech Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic, with the Mozart Violin Concerto No.5. She collaborates with important Swiss living composers such as Heinz Holliger, Richard Dubugnon, David Philip Hefti, Nadir Vassena.
Abrigo is the artistic director of POURQUOIPAS, a non-profit association organizing concerts, masterclasses and projects with social commitments, which she founded in 2015 with the Swiss violinist Madeleine-Murray-Robertson. [18] With POURQUOIPAS she created in 2017 for Pully Sound Sound Festival an educational experience titled "Niccolò Paganini: the mystery": a one-hour itinerary discovering truth and mysteries of the composer's life, that ended with a final concert. [19]
In February 2021 POURQUOIPAS launched the crowdfunding campaign [20] in support of the violinist Corinne Chapelle, affected by a rare form of cancer. The campaign raised +200.000 Euro in three weeks, involving dozen of Classical Music Stars (Nicola Benedetti, Renaud Capucon, Vilde Frang, Steven Isserlis, Igudesman and Joo, Corina Belcea..) and many International Newspaper, Radio and Media (The Times, Radio France, Le Figaro, The Strad, The Violin Channel...). Tragically, Corinne Chapelle died five weeks later, after an intensive care in Germany. [21]
Abrigo launched in July 2021 the Lucignano Music Festival, a chamber music festival in Tuscany, Italy. [22]
In 2023 Irene launched the ITALIAN SWISS MUSIC SOCIETY in collaboration with the Institute of Culture and Consulate of Italy in Zürich, a new concert serie celebrating the Italian excellence in Switzerland and promoting an artistic exchange between the two cultures. [23]
Abrigo appears in the following CDs:
Between 2016 and 2018 Abrigo performed on a violin by Gaetano Antoniazzi and occasionally on a Guarneri del Gesù and Antonio Stradivari.
Since June 2018 Abrigo plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Milan 1758, on loan to her from a private collector.
She plays on bows by F.X. Tourte (ex-Iona Brown), Nicolas Maline, Jean-Jacque Millant and Arnaud Suard.
Abrigo married in 2018 the Viola player and Entrepreneur Jürg Dähler. They are currently living in Winterthur, Switzerland. In 2023 Irene received the Swiss citizenship.
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