Massimo Macrì - Artistic Director of MACF

.President Cultural Association Le Arti Riflesse, Founder and Artistic Director of the Magliano Alfieri Classic Festival.

Began his musical studies at the St. Cecilia Conservatory with Maestros Selmi, Baldovino. Followed courses with André Navarra and finally for a long time with Siegfried Palm in Italy and Germany. Awarded in various competitions he achieves the "Cimento D'oro" for classical music. As first cello he played in the orchestra of Arena di Verona, Rai in Milan, Rai in Rome. He has collaborated as first cello with the National Orchestra of S. Cecilia, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Bayerisches Rundfunk Orchester in Munich, La Scala Philharmonic.

He was the first cello soloist of the RAI national symphony orchestra for many years.

I know and love the fantastic cellist Massimo Macrì, who has extraordinary qualities: profound musicality, a sound of exceptional beauty, and excellent technique. He possesses all the gifts to occupy a place worthy of the highest recognition among cello soloists (Msitislav Rostropovich, 2001)

He has played and collaborated under the baton of the most important conductors of our time such as Bernstein, Bichkov, Conlon, Chailly, Giulini, Inbal, Maazel, Metha, Pretre, Sawallisch, Sinopoli, Tate, even in the great solos of the symphonic opera repertoire. He has recorded for RAI the concertos of Boccherini, Bloch, Danzi, Fedele, Ghedini, Gulda, Haydn, Mannino, Strauss (Don Quixote), Haydn and Bach concertantes. For Turkish Radio and Television with Gurer Aykal he recorded the concertos of Bloch, Haydn, Gulda, Schumann, Respighi; numerous were the chamber concerts recorded for Rai, Suisse Romande.

Holds Masterclasses in Italy Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Japan.

His personal discography includes: for Ediz. Bongiovanni music by Goffredo Petrassi, for Videoraradio Rai the Concerto in D major by Haydn, Quartet and Quintet by Mozart, Serenata by Rossini, for Fonè the trio by Furtwangler, for Naxos a CD -cello and piano- with authors of the historical Italian twentieth century (Petrassi, Cilea, Fuga).

A professor of cello at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Turin from 2006 to 2018, he plays on a cello by Giovanni Gagliano (Naples 1800) and a Gaetano Antoniazzi (Milan 1887).

Latest recording project a CD with the Italian Ensemble featuring music by Castelnuovo Tedesco in collaboration with the Patronato de Turismo de Fuerteventura (Canary Islands)