The violinist Gibboni: “My Paganini victory ignored? In reality there is a lack of attention to art”

“The Paganini is one of the competitions par excellence for us violinists and since I was a child I have always dreamed of this award, having won it as an Italian certainly acquires an added value; I am very happy even if I still do not believe it …”. This is how Giuseppe Gibboni, the twenty-year-old violinist from Salerno, who won the Paganini Prize, bringing him back to Italy after 27 years, speaks thus with Adnkronos. During its 56 editions, the prestigious violin competition saw only 4 Italians win, including Salvatore Accardo in ’58. Now Gibboni is at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome where tomorrow at 19.30 (repeats Friday 5 at 20.30 and Saturday 6 at 18) he will debut for the symphonic season of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with the violin concert by Pëtr Il ‘ič Tchaikovsky, one of the most difficult for the soloist, conducted by the young maestro Lorenzo Viotti, who is also making his Czech debut. “After the victory of the Paganini Prize, many phone calls arrived, including that of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Now I am in fact at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, and I am very excited to play here, where the greatest soloists in the world performed. , it is a piece of history. There is a wonderful hall, a fantastic orchestra, for me it is a great honor “, confesses Gibboni, who on the controversy that arose around the silence of the media and institutions on his victory at the prestigious violin competition and on that of his Italian colleagues, the young pianists Alexander Gadjiev and Leonora Armellini, at the ‘Chopin’ in Warsaw, he says: “Surely there is not the right attention for art and music, but things are changing and in my small I will try to make this happen. I always try not to argue and I focused on this goal without worrying about what could have been the response of the institutions or the media. “‘Pop music? I have a good relationship, I listen to it, the important thing is that it is done well. Korngold’s concert, Gibboni clarifies: “It is an emblematic and wonderful piece that I brought to the Paganini Competition. But I also chose it to give a different image of myself that in addition to Paganini, whom I adore and which I will perform in my life as a violinist, I think I am able to perform other things and I hope this can be appreciated. The choice was made in agreement with the conductor Lorenzo Viotti, with whom I am working very well. It is not for me to say, but it is a young maestro very good in great and deserved rise. For me it is a double honor to play with Viotti and Santa Cecilia “. Very young, born in 2001, serious and with great linguistic properties, the violinist from Salerno says he has “a good relationship with pop music, which I sometimes listen to. It is music that has its role, the important thing is that it is made well. I don’t have a favorite singer – he concludes – they often ask me, but I don’t “. (by Pippo Orlando)