Trio Debussy Artist in Residence 2026
4 - 5 March 2026

The 2026 edition of the "Artists in Residence at Casa Stradivari" project continues with the Trio Debussy, featuring two days dedicated to violin making and music. The event is supported by Fondazione Cariplo and it is organised in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro A. Ponchielli of Cremona.
with the support of
MASTERCLASS AND ROUNDTABLE
Wednesday 4 March 2026
3.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Ridotto of the Teatro A. Ponchielli – Cremona
Free entry, subject to availability.
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Chamber music masterclass
3.30 pm – 5.30 pm
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Roundtable
Violin making and music with Trio Debussy5.30 pm – 6.30 pm
The meetings are open to violin makers, students of the Conservatoire and Musicology, as well as to music enthusiasts.
Free admission, subject to availability.
CONCERT
Thursday 5 March 2026
8.30 pm
Teatro A. Ponchielli – Cremona
Tickets are available at the Theatre box office and online via Vivaticket.
Trio Debussy
Antonio Valentino, piano
Piergiorgio Rosso, violin
Francesca Gosio, cello
music by M. Musorgskij, M. Ravel
Programme:
Modest Petrovič Musorgskij (1839 -1881)
Pictures at an Exhibition
arrangement for Trio by A. Valentino
Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
Piano Trio in A minor for piano, violin and cello
Further information: https://www.vivaticket.com/it/ticket/trio-debussy/291367
Project realised with the support of Fondazione Cariplo
The project “Casa Stradivari Artists in Residence” is realised with the support of Fondazione Cariplo.
Fondazione Cariplo supports socially beneficial projects related to arts and culture, the environment, social services and scientific research in Lombardy and in the provinces of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. Since 1991, it has supported 40,040 non-profit projects, donating over €4.25 billion.
Further information is available at www.fondazionecariplo.it.
Trio Debussy
More often than not, human and professional circumstances lead chamber ensembles to disband within a few seasons. This rule does not apply to Trio Debussy; with thirty-six years of activity, it stands as the longest-running Italian trio and one of the very few "full-time" ensembles on the international chamber music scene. Critics have defined them as a group of musicians who possess "in their hearts, minds, and hands an interpretative greatness of a bygone era." Indeed, the three members have placed their talents at the service of the ensemble with total dedication, continuously seeking new interactions and expanding an already vast repertoire: over 230 works, from Haydn to contemporary composers, 30 of which were written specifically for the Trio and performed as world premieres, not to mention numerous collaborations in expanded formations.
After winning the International Chamber Music Competition "Premio Trio di Trieste" (1997), the ensemble embarked on an intense career that has taken them to the most prestigious Italian and international concert institutions: Unione Musicale in Turin, Amici della Musica in Florence, Società del Quartetto in Milan, MITO SettembreMusica, Amici della Musica in Palermo, Società del Quartetto in Vicenza, the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna (performing Beethoven's Triple Concerto), Sala Santa Cecilia at the new Auditorium in Rome (performing G.F. Ghedini's Triple Concerto with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate), the Coliseum in Buenos Aires, Associazione Scarlatti in Naples, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Sociedad Filarmónica in Valencia, concerts at the Quirinale broadcast live on the radio, and many others.
A twenty-year collaboration with the Unione Musicale has given life to numerous projects: among these, Atelier Giovani, which featured the complete performance of the chamber works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms, and a journey of exploration into French chamber music between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the rediscovery of seldom-performed pages. But Trio Debussy has never been satisfied with interpreting only the traditional repertoire: they have always sought new challenges, juxtaposing great masterpieces with the unknown, the rare, and the contemporary, in a constant dialogue between memory and innovation. In 2005, they founded the Festival "Tra Futuro & Passato," which proposed original pairings of classics and new creations, testing both the audience and themselves in a process of continuous artistic renewal.
There have also been numerous collaborations with musical entities of various backgrounds: Lili, a composition project using Artificial Intelligence under the supervision of Andrea Chenna; the experience with the Manomanouche (culminating in a CD recording in 2009); and work with Paolo Conte, which—thanks to the arrangements of Massimo Pitzianti—led to new elaborations of instrumental pieces by the famous singer-songwriter from Asti, written specifically for the Trio. Their latest CD, recently published, brings together two absolute cornerstones of the chamber repertoire: Schubert's Trio Op. 100 (in its integral edition) and Ravel's Trio.
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