Concerts at the Monastery: Stefano Cucuzzella and Tommaso Graiff

Works by:
Richard Strauss
Claude Debussy
Giuseppe Martucci

Italian cellist Stefano Cucuzzella took up the cello at age ten. He completed his musical studies in 2013 in Weimar under Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, with further artistic input from P. Wispelwey, W. Boettcher, J.P. Maintz and P. Bruns. Since 2005 he has appeared regularly at leading music festivals (Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier, Zermatt, MMCJ) and gained valuable experience in top German ensembles including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. A man of wide-ranging interests, he also pursues musicology, literature, carpentry and violin-making - though chamber music remains his greatest passion.

Tommaso Graiff studied piano at the Conservatorio F. A. Bonporti in Trento, then piano, chamber music and musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig, alongside classical philology at Leipzig University. He performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician across Europe and appears in prestigious concert series. The young musician also frequently accompanies masterclasses both in Germany and abroad.