{"id":25,"date":"2025-11-17T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:51:34","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stefano began studying music at the age of 5. He was given piano and violin lessons, leading to the completion of his <strong>Master degree<\/strong> (violin) and subsequent teaching at the University of Music in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His international experience has seen study in Spain and Austria. In 2010 he won a European scholarship in order to work as a musician in Madrid, following which he moved to Vienna for further study. In 2014 he successfully auditioned for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk\/people\/stefano-dermenegildo\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk\/people\/stefano-dermenegildo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Southbank Sinfonia<\/strong> <\/a>orchestra (now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk\/\"><strong>Sinfonia Smith Square<\/strong><\/a>), based in Waterloo, participating in all their outreach\/educational projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has played in many International theatres including Teatro alla Scala, Berliner Philarmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Wien, Auditorio Nacional de M\u00fasica Madrid, Teatro Teresa Carre\u00f1o Caracas, Sala Nervi, Romanian Athenaeum Bucarest and under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Riccardo Muti, Lior Shambadal, Luis Bacalov, Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis, Marco Angius, Luigi Piovano, Alexander Lonquich, Johannes Prinz, Daniele Giorgi, Andreas Weiss, Dorian Keilhack, Matthieu Mantanus and Timothy Brock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of music, Stefano\u2019s interests include physics and artificial intelligence, having studied at the University of L\u2019Aquila and in partnership with Stanford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano began studying music at the age of 5. He was given piano and violin lessons, leading to the completion of his Master degree (violin) and subsequent teaching at the University of Music in Italy. His international experience has seen study in Spain and Austria. In 2010 he won a European scholarship in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theitalianviolinist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}