Cello

A pupil of Radu Aldulescu, Luigi Piovano graduated at age seventeen. 

For many years he served as principal cello of the Baroque group Concerto Italiano leaded by Rinaldo Alessandrini. He first attracted attention on the international music circuit after his participation in the "Pollini Project" in 1999, which brought forth a highly-successful debut at the Salzburg Festival, as well as performances in Tokyo, New York and Rome. 

As a sought-after chamber musician, he has played with artists as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Myung- Whun Chung, Alexander Lonquich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Leonidas Kavakos, Veronika Eberle, Nikolay Lugansky, Malcolm Bilson and the Labèque sisters. He regularly performs in duo with Antonio Pappano since 2005, and from 2009 to 2019 he performed with Latitude 41 piano trio. 

He has performed as soloist with orchestras as Tokyo Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Montréal Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic under the batons of such conductors as Chung, Menuhin, Nagano, Pappano and Pletnev. 

He has worked as Principal cellist of the Symphony Orchestra of National Academy of St. Cecilia since the end of the 1990s. 

His many recordings include Bach Six Cello Suites and the complete music for cello of Saint-Saëns, a Schubert CD and both Saint-Saëns' Trios with Latitude 41 and Bach's Goldberg Variations with Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Yuri Zhislin.