Lorenza Borrani, Leader

Lorenza Borrani has been Leader of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe since 2008.

“We are all busy with our own lives: we teach, we play as soloists and in other ensembles, but when we meet in the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, it is every time a very special appointment for everybody [...] The spirit and enthusiasm this ensemble is keeping over the years gives to its outstanding and professional musical level a really unique value because everybody feels the responsibility and the need to protect it. Because we feel lucky. This Orchestra is also a major source of inspiration that we then bring back to our own lives, teaching our pupils, playing as a soloist or playing in our own ensembles.”

Born in Florence in 1983, Lorenza began her violin studies at the age of five with Alina Company at the Fiesole School of Music. She then went on to have violin lessons with Pavel Vernikov, Zinaida Gilels and Ilya Grubert and she undertook postgraduate study at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria, with Boris Kushnir.

She has regularly played chamber music since her youth, a passion developed through the example of her teachers Piero Farulli, Pier Narciso Masi and Pavel Vernikov, as well as through performing for artists like Carlo Maria Giulini, Maurizio Pollini , Mstislav Rostropovich. As chamber musician and soloist (under the direction of conductors such as Yuri Ahronovitch, Gyorgy Gyorivany Rath, Emmanuel Krivine) she is invited to perform by many of the most important and dynamic festivals, artists and orchestras. In November 2006 she performed as soloist with Orchestra Mozart conducted by Claudio Abbado. She has been Leader of Symphonica Toscanini since 2003 and is a member of Orchestra Mozart and Lucerne Festival Orchestra. She plays as Guest Leader with orchestras like Filarmonica della Scala, Bayerischen Rundfunk Orchester, Orchestra della Fondazione Santa Cecilia. She is one of the founders of the “Spira mirabilis” project.

Lorenza plays on a Ferdinando Galliano violin (Naples, 1762), courtesy of the “Pro Canale” Foundation of Milan.