Croce

Rossella Croce graduated with top marks in violin in 1998 at the Conservatory A. Pedrollo of Vicenza under the guidance F. Missaggia. During her studies she gained several scholarships and was finalist in various violin and chamber music competitions. She then specialized on the early violin repertoire at the Scuola Civica in Milan and at […]
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Rossella Croce graduated with top marks in violin in 1998 at the Conservatory A. Pedrollo of Vicenza under the guidance F. Missaggia.

During her studies she gained several scholarships and was finalist in various violin and chamber music competitions. She then specialized on the early violin repertoire at the Scuola Civica in Milan and at the Conservatory in Den Haag (Holland) with Enrico Gatti following at the same time also courses with R. Terakado, E. Wallfisch and others.

She has an intense concert activity which leads her to play in the most prestigious concert halls and theatres in the world. She works, also as first violin, with many important early music groups such as Ensemble Zefiro, Ensemble Aurora, Accordone, La Risonanza, Il Gardellino, Seicento Stravagante, Accademia W.Hermans, Accademia Bizantina, Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Meranbaroque, etc.

She played in several broadcasts for RAI Radio 3, RSI, WDR, Radio France, etc. Rossella also recorded for the labels Sony Classics, Alpha, Brilliant, Cipress, Naive, Arcana, Glossa, Amadeus, Bottega Discantica, Classic Voice, Eloquentia, etc. She has recently recorded the “Invenzioni a violino solo” op. X by Francesco Antonio Bonporti for La Bottega Discantica (Milan),The Art of Fugue by J.S.Bach and The Pieces of the Clavecin en Concerts by J.P.Rameau for Challenge Classics with Accademia Strumentale Italiana led by Alberto Rasi.

She teaches Chamber Music for Ancient Instruments at the Conservatory “A.Scarlatti” of Palermo.

Crazzolara

Esther was born in Bruneck in South Tyrol and graduated in 2005 from the Conservatorio ‘Claudio Monteverdi’ in Bolzano with Prof. Georg Egger. She continued her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and specialized in early music and baroque violin with with Hiro Kurosaki and at the Conservatorio di Verona. She attended masterclasses with Anne […]
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In 2008 she played in the Britten Pears Baroque Orchestra in Aldeburgh under the direction of Richard Egarr. In 2009 she was a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, with which she did several tours throughout Europe under the baton of Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Chiara Banchini, Petra Müllejans, Edward Higginbottom, Enrico Onofri. She has played in various groups such as Ensemble Cordia, Bolzano Baroque Orchestra, Harmonices Mundi, Accademia Bizantina, Il Complesso Barocco, New Century Baroque, Harmony of Nations, Musica Saeculorum, Atalanta Fugiens, Bolzano String Academy, Orchestra Haydn, Il Pomo d’Oro, L’arte dell’arco, La Divina Armonia, Divino Sospiro, Europa Galante, Accordone Ensemble, Festspielorchester Göttingen, Il Giardino Armonico. From 2012 to 2015 she was the concertmaster of Theresia Orchestra. She was awarded several prizes, amongst which the ‘Weichlein’ prize (2013), the Biber International Competition with the Ensemble Girandole Armoniche, with whom in 2019 she published the record ‘Extravagantes Seicento’, the Bonporti Competition (2013). Since 2016 she has been first violin in the ensemble ‘Il lieto ardore’.

Longoni

Gemma Longoni began to play the violin at the age of 5. She graduated from the conservatory G. Verdi in Milan in October 2010 and completed the master in 2012 with highest honours under the guidance of Cinzia Barbagelata. From 2013 to 2015, she lived in Basel, where she completed the master in baroque violin […]
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From 2013 to 2015, she lived in Basel, where she completed the master in baroque violin under the guidance of Amandine Beyer and Leila Schayegh at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She took part in several projects with Sigiswald Kuijken and Rinaldo Alessandrini, playing in a quartet with K. Bezuidenhout.

She has been a member of EUBO in the years 2011 and 2012, holding also the position of concertmaster and section leader. She is currently member of the Geneva-based orchestra Geneva Camerata (GECA). She is currently the concertmaster for EUBO and Theresia Orchestra and working as a tutor for the string section.

She made recordings for EMI Classic, Amadeus, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and Sony Classical.