About
Award-winning Italian violinist Matteo Cimatti has been praised for his “...refined playing and melodious and intense tone…” (ANSA).
Based between London and Switzerland, he has appeared alongside several European orchestras and at numerous festivals, and is also an accomplished and enthusiastic chamber player. In May 2025, he was selected as one of the winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Final Auditions.
Matteo has appeared as a soloist alongside several orchestras, including the Academy of Saint Martin in theFields, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, the London Firebird Orchestra and the Young Musicians European Orchestra.
Highlights from the 25/26 season include recitals at Cambridge Summer Music and St George’s Bristol, alongside debuts at the Berlin Philharmonie and Alte Oper Frankfurt. Matteo also performed internationally at festivals including Bendigo Chamber Music Festival in Australia, Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival, Musikdorf Ernen Kammermusikfest, and Davos Festival. He was selected as Beethovenfest Bonn Talent for 2026 and performed on several occasions at the Beethovenfest Bonn.
2026/27 continues apace for Matteo, with returns to Wigmore Hall and Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival as well as a debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and concerto appearances with the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra and the Opera North Youth Orchestra.
Matteo has previously performed in numerous festivals and concert seasons such as the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Sion Festival, the Ticino Music Festival, Amici della Musica di Firenze, AMUR Musica con Vista, Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht, and SolkiFestival, among others.
Matteo is a Borletti-Buitoni Trust nominee and has won numerous awards and accolades at national and international competitions, including awards from the Fondation Leenaards, Rahn Kulturfonds, Concours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne, and the Premio Postacchini International Violin Competition.
An avid chamber musician since a very young age, Matteo enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player. He is also a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel, Switzerland, which was a prize winner at the 2024 Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition.
Matteo completed a Soloist Masters Degree at the HEMU Valais-Wallis in July 2024, where he studied with Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He previously earned Masters and Bachelors degrees from HEMU studying with Svetlana Makarova and Pavel Vernikov. Matteo has also been mentored by David Takeno in London throughout the past years and has benefited from lessons with such pedagogues as Miriam Fried, Mihaela Martin, and Gerhard Schulz, among others.
> Download PDF (EN, FR, IT)Matteo has appeared as a soloist alongside several orchestras, including the Academy of Saint Martin in theFields, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, the London Firebird Orchestra and the Young Musicians European Orchestra.
Highlights from the 25/26 season include recitals at Cambridge Summer Music and St George’s Bristol, alongside debuts at the Berlin Philharmonie and Alte Oper Frankfurt. Matteo also performed internationally at festivals including Bendigo Chamber Music Festival in Australia, Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival, Musikdorf Ernen Kammermusikfest, and Davos Festival. He was selected as Beethovenfest Bonn Talent for 2026 and performed on several occasions at the Beethovenfest Bonn.
2026/27 continues apace for Matteo, with returns to Wigmore Hall and Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival as well as a debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and concerto appearances with the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra and the Opera North Youth Orchestra.
Matteo has previously performed in numerous festivals and concert seasons such as the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Sion Festival, the Ticino Music Festival, Amici della Musica di Firenze, AMUR Musica con Vista, Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht, and SolkiFestival, among others.
Matteo is a Borletti-Buitoni Trust nominee and has won numerous awards and accolades at national and international competitions, including awards from the Fondation Leenaards, Rahn Kulturfonds, Concours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne, and the Premio Postacchini International Violin Competition.
An avid chamber musician since a very young age, Matteo enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player. He is also a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel, Switzerland, which was a prize winner at the 2024 Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition.
Matteo completed a Soloist Masters Degree at the HEMU Valais-Wallis in July 2024, where he studied with Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He previously earned Masters and Bachelors degrees from HEMU studying with Svetlana Makarova and Pavel Vernikov. Matteo has also been mentored by David Takeno in London throughout the past years and has benefited from lessons with such pedagogues as Miriam Fried, Mihaela Martin, and Gerhard Schulz, among others.
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