Lia Previtali

Classical violist, born in Verscio, Switzerland. Has been the second violist of the Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino since 2005, after being selected by Zubin Mehta She was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and first violist of the Schweizer Jugend-Sinfonie-Orchester. She trained with Wolfram Christ at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland, with Jodi Levitz in San Francisco and then with Veronika Hagen at the Salzburg Mozarteum. She has performed in chamber music festivals in Europe, Japan and America with the likes of Norbert Brainin, Richard Stolzman, Sadao Harada and the Trio di Parma. She regularly collaborates with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and has been invited to participate in tours with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra and Les Dissonances, thus having the opportunity to work with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti and Seiji Ozawa. She has also played first viola with the Orchestra Del Teatro La Fenice in Venice and with the Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana Lugano. Interested in exploring both the ancient repertoire and that of contemporary music, she collaborates with the Musica Saeculorum orchestra, the Alter Ego (9) ensemble of Rome and The San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble. She has taught at the advanced specialisation courses of the Gustav Mahler Academy of Bolzano and the Orchesterzentrum NRW, Dortmund.