About me
“After setting himself as a brilliant chamber musician performing in venues all around the world with Andrea Bocelli, Gianfranco Cecchele, Kristian Johansson, Daniela Barcellona, Carlo Lepore, Giacomo Prestia, Gianluca Terranova, Giovanni Velluti started with growing success a solo career.”
(La Stampa– agosto 2002).
Particularly important is the close association enjoyed with Katia Ricciarelli, whom he has partnered since 1993 in many tours and television broadcastings throughout Europe, America, Africa and the Middle East. Other leading singers with whom he has worked regularly are Stefania Bonfadelli , Daniela Dessì, Paolo Bordogna, Manuela Custer, Rossana Rinaldi, Antonio Salvadori.
Giovanni began studying piano with Aldo Mantia, pupil of Wladimir von Pachmann, heir of the Chopin school.
Velluti was decisively influenced by his encounter with the teacher Rodolpho Caporali, a direct pianistic descendant of Chopin and Thalberg.
He is now assistant of W. Grant Naborè, founder of Como Lake Piano Academy.
He later enjoyed suggestions and help also from Sergio Fiorentino and Aldo Ciccolini though being already in career.
Velluti has performed in the most important Italian concert halls (including Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Teatro Argentina of Rome, Teatro Comunale of Ferrara, Turin RAI Auditorium, Rome Parco della musica, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, London’s Steinway Hall, Conway Hall and St. Martin-in-the-fields, etc) , abroad in more than 30 foreign countries ( Great Britain, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South America, Africa, Middle and Far East) and in many international festivals including the Varna Summer Festival, Festival di Pasqua of Locarno, Ochrid festival, Festival Magna Grecia of Taranto, Temporada de musica de Andorra, and Alto Adige Musicastello Festival).
His concerts were often broadcasted by major Italian and foreign tv channels and he took part in many radio programs (Rai 3, Euroradio- concerti al Palazzo del Quirinale, Radio Vaticana).
A CD recorded on a perfectly restored 1890 Erard piano is being sold on “I-tunes” as “The piano of the golden age”,and a CD recorded with bass Carlo Lepore and with critical notes by Philip Gossett was also released with the title “Non solo buffo”.
Giovanni teaches piano accompaniment and lyrical repertoire in Rome S.Cecilia Conservatoire.
Here is the list of images in order:
1. with Katia Ricciarelli recital Parma Teatro Regio
2. with Katia Ricciarelli e Kristian Johansson Verona teatro filarmonico
3. Roma San Michele a Ripa
4. historic edition of Moszkowski ( archivio Giovanni Velluti )