The Solisti Veneti directed by Giuliano Carella have been guests of some of the major Italian and foreign musical festivals and institutions such as: Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello, Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi, Stradivari Festival in Cremona, Emilia Romagna Festival, Teatro Pavarotti-Freni in Modena, Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, Teatro Verdi in Salerno, Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa in Savona, Auditorium del Parco in L'Aquila, Sala Tchaikovsky in Moscow, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Ljubljana Festival, Fondation Gianadda in Martigny, Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens, Musikverein Kärnten in Klagenfurt, Festival de Musique in Toulon, Royal Opera House in Muscat, Festival de Música dos Capuchos in Lisbon, Tartini Festival in Piran, Festival de las Velas in Segovia, Varna International Music Festival, just to name a few.
After historic collaborations with pop music artists such as Lucio Dalla, Gino Paoli and Massimo Ranieri, the last two years have seen the birth of new collaborations and experiments that have led the Orchestra to perform together with internationally renowned jazz musicians Paolo Fresu and Daniele Di Bonaventura, to make audio and video recordings, live streaming and to participate in the creation of the new album by Amilcar Soto Rodriguez and Susana Baca, winner of three Latin Grammy Awards.
In 2023, Nicola Piovani, inspired by Vivaldi's Flute Concertos, wrote and dedicated to I Solisti Veneti and flautist Massimo Mercelli three unpublished compositions that the Oscar winner, alternating at the helm of the Orchestra with Maestro Giuliano Carella, is bringing to the stages of some of the most important international Festivals and which will soon be recorded in the studio.
In 2024 they organized the 54th edition of the Veneto Festival (G. Tartini International Festival), the 59th matinee series called “I Concerti della Domenica” and the fifth edition of the Festival in collaboration with the FAI – Italian Environment Fund “I Solisti Veneti per il FAI”, a concert series born in 2020 and structured in the form of a traveling festival that aims to promote an evocative dialogue between music, history and art.
The Orchestra I Solisti Veneti celebrated its 60th year of activity. During their musical career they have collaborated with the most important artists of our time: from Placido Domingo to Josè Carreras, June Anderson, Ruggero Raimondi, Andrea Bocelli, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Itzhak Perlman, Henryk Szeryng, Sviatoslav Richter, Jean Pierre Rampal, James Galway, Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi to name but a few. Many of the most famous composers of our time, including Ennio Morricone Giuseppe De Marzi, Sylvano Bussotti, Franco Donatoni, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Cristóbal Halffter, Marius Constant, Luis de Pablo, Azio Corghi, Domenico Guaccero, Giacomo Manzoni, Alessandro Cadario, have dedicated their music to I Solisti Veneti, thus creating an important musical literature. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the “Solisti”, Pino Donaggio, a well-known singer-songwriter and composer of soundtracks, wrote five songs dedicated to them and recorded by the Orchestra, under the direction of the author himself, on the CD “Nel Cinema e nella Classica”, published in 2020.
In the name and in the spirit of their founder and Director who passed away in 2018, I Solisti Veneti, Clementine Hoogendoorn Scimone and the new Artistic and Musical Director Giuliano Carella, continue to perpetuate the spiritual and aesthetic legacy of the Maestro.
Sees the birth of the annual Master Class “Academy of the Venetian Soloists” on the interpretation of Venetian music which takes place in the splendid setting of Villa Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta (PD).
Performing “Il Nascimento dell'Aurora” and “Il Concilio dei Pianeti”, as well as his interlude “Pimpinone”, they revealed the beauty of Tomaso Albinoni's vocal work.
At the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Claudio Scimone and I Solisti Veneti were awarded the “A Life in Music” Prize by the Artur Rubinstein Association. They have been the focus of important television programs including “The Seven Words” by Haydn in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua (directed by Ermanno Olmi) and “Vivaldi peintre de la musique” by François Reichenbach.
The European Parliament, on the occasion of their 50th anniversary, dedicated a plaque to I Solisti Veneti in which it described them as “extraordinary promoters of culture beyond borders”. The Italian Embassies in Luxembourg, Brussels, Paris, Vienna and others have entrusted I Solisti Veneti with the official opening and closing events of the Italian Presidency of the EU.
To demonstrate the profound connection between Venetian music, architecture and the figurative arts, since 2003 they have recorded a series of highly important DVDs such as “Vivaldi's Seasons in Palladio's Villas” (Arthaus), “Vivaldi's Gloria and Sacred Music in San Marco in Venice and in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua” (Dynamic), “Vivaldi's Flute Concertos with James Galway in the Doge's Palace in Venice” (Hardy Classic) and many others.
Over the course of the decade, I Solisti Veneti have performed at highly prestigious ceremonies, such as the concert at the Quirinale Palace for the awarding of the 1990 Fiuggi International Prize.
With a discography of over 350 titles on LP, CD and DVD, I Solisti Veneti and Claudio Scimone have obtained the highest national and international recognitions in the musical field: the Grammy Award in Los Angeles, numerous Grand Prix du disque, from the Académie Charles Cros in Paris and from the Académie du Disque Lyrique, multiple awards from Italian record critics.
The history of I Solisti Veneti is marked by two important events, namely the first edition of the Veneto Festival “Giuseppe Tartini International Festival” – one of the main events in the musical life of the Veneto region, of great artistic and cultural importance – and the awarding of the original Festival Bar Prize, won with 350,000 preferences from the younger audience.
They were the first in Italy since 1965 to hold concerts in schools and have held master classes on the interpretation of Venetian music in European countries, in Venezuela for the “Sistema” of Josè Abreu, in the USA, Canada, China, Oman and Kenya. They have brought to light in concert, in the theater and partly published in their editions, hundreds of unknown works of the great Italian musical heritage, revealing numerous “greats” of the past and taking care of the publication of the complete works of Giuseppe Tartini.
The Orchestra I Solisti Veneti was founded by Claudio Scimone. Having rapidly risen to the heights of international fame, they arouse the unconditional enthusiasm of audiences and critics for their excellent music. Ambassadors of Venetian culture and music in the world with more than 6,000 concerts held in over 90 countries, I Solisti Veneti have played in the most important concert halls and for the most prestigious musical institutions, from the Salzburg Festival (where they have been present on more than 30 occasions) to Carnegie Hall in New York.
