Biography

Giulio Padoin graduated with highest honors at the A. Steffani Conservatory in Castelfranco Veneto (Italy) under the guidance of Walter Vestidello. He attended several international cello masterclasses with Enrico Bronzi and Christian Poltéra. He specialized in early music performance with Marco Testori at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where he obtained the Master of Arts in baroque cello, and with Christophe Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where he obtained the Master of Arts in music pedagogy. Also in Basel, he completed a Master of Arts in historical improvisation with Nicola Cumer and Dirk Börner. He attended early music masterclasses with Stefano Veggetti, Stanley Ritchie, Jos Van Immerseel and Catherine Jones.

 

Since 2023 he has been collaborating as principal cello with Il Giardino Armonico and plays with several groups and orchestras such as Accademia Bizantina (recording for the label Naive), Café Zimmermann, Il Pomo d’Oro (recording for the label Erato), Los Elementos Ensemble (Alberto Miguélez Rouco, recording operas by José de Nebra for the label Glossa), Concerto Scirocco (Giulia Genini, playing at the Philarmonie Berlin), Abchordis Ensemble (Andrea Buccarella), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Romano, Ensemble Mare Nostrum, La Cetra Barockorchester, Capriccio Barockorchester, I Tempi Kammerorchester. With these ensembles he has been playing in important festivals and music halls all over the world.

 

In 2021, together with the fortepianist Gabriele Lucherini (Ricerche Parallele duo), he received an Extraordinary Award for his “outstanding individual performance” at the “Beethoven in seiner Zeit” competition. With the same duo, in 2022, he is the winner of the “International Van Wassenaer Competition 2022” (organised by the “Utrecht Early Music Festival”), also receiving the Audience Award.

 

His research for new authors and unreleased music led him to publish a critical edition of a manuscript by Giacomo Facco, with the Spanish label “Música Hispana” (Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, Madrid), featuring unpublished music for two cellos composed by the Paduan musician during his time in Madrid.

 

He also studied jazz harmony and improvisation with Saverio Tasca and played in jazz quintet “Saverio Tasca & AlterArco” (marimba and string quartet), with which he recorded for the label Velut Luna the CD L'uomo che cammina.

He plays an early 18th century cello from the Venetian school.