Discover Matteo Cimatti: our prize-winning Italian Violinist

The soloist in Firebird’s opening concert of the season on Tuesday 30 September is violinist Matteo Cimatti performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Find out more about this fabulous Italian musician…

Matteo was one of the winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Final Auditions in May 2025. 

Watch Matteo’s superb YCAT audition piece as he performs Edward Elgar’s Sospiri Op.70 back in May this year…

‘…refined playing and melodious and intense tone…’

(ANSA)

As a soloist he has appeared with several orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed in numerous festivals across Europe and received awards and prizes from many of the continent’s leading competitions.

Having graduated from the Haute École Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland in 2024, Matteo is now based between London and Switzerland.

An enthusiast chamber player from a very young age, Matteo is a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel.

Matteo’s upcoming highlights include his debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Internationales Musikfestival Heidelburger Fruhling and a return to the Wigmore Hall for another recital.

This season’s opening concert features Dvořák’smasterpiece From the New World and Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D with Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti.

Dvořák’s New World

St George’s Hanover Square
Tuesday 30 September 2025

London Firebird Orchestra
Conductor George Jackson
Violin Matteo Cimatti