CAVUOTO, Simona (ITA)

Simona Cavuoto is an Italian violinist, chamber musician, orchestral player, teacher, and author with an international career spanning Europe and South America. She studied at the G. B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna, the International Chamber Music Academy of the Trio di Trieste in Duino, and later with Enzo Porta, Valery Gradow, and Ruggero Ricci, graduating from the G. Tartini Conservatory in Trieste in 1996. Her orchestral career includes permanent positions with the Orchestra of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste and the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), where she performed from 2005 to 2015 in major symphonic seasons, international tours, and recordings for BIS, Biscoito Fino, Naxos, and Chandos. Deeply committed to chamber and contemporary music, she has collaborated with ensembles including Quartetto Agorà, Portinari Quartet, Trio Arqué, Epifania Piano Trio, Camerata Aberta, Percorso Ensemble, Ensemble K, and the Yūgen Piano Quartet, appearing in venues such as the BBC Proms, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Vienna, Teatro alla Scala, Sala São Paulo, Cadogan Hall, Dubai Opera, and the Theatre de l'Odeon in Paris. Her discography includes The Violin in the Metropolis, Contraluz, Ligeti+, Espelhos D'Agua, 3+2/SP, Hommage a l'Amitie, and a recording devoted to Filiberto Laurenzi with baroque Ensemble Sezione Aurea. Alongside performance, she has taught violin and chamber music in Brazil and Italy, completed a Master's Degree in Baroque Violin with honors at the B. Maderna Conservatory in Cesena, published the book Retorica musicale: voci a confronto, and is pursuing a PhD in Music and Performance at UNICAMP in Brazil. In 2025, her interdisciplinary project Chronos & Kairos for solo violin, electronics, and video was staged at Teatro PactaSalone in Milan.