Irenè Fiorito

Graduated with honors and honorable mention from the Conservatory of Music S. Cecilia in Rome, she continued her studies at the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona with S. Accardo and obtained three Masters at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland with P. Berman. She participated in prestigious masterclasses including those at the Kronberg Academy and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Awarded in numerous international competitions, including the 26th Postacchini International Violin Competition and the Rodolfo Lipizer Prize International Competition; she regularly performs in important concert halls including the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Palazzo del Quirinale and the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. She plays as a soloist with prestigious orchestras including the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana .
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Lorenzo Guida

He graduated at the age of sixteen with honors and honorable mention in Turin with Dario Destefano. He continued his studies with Natalia Gutman, Johannes Goritzki and Asier Polo. He attended masterclasses held by David Geringas, Mischa Maisky, Asier Polo, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz, Thomas Demenga, Peter Bruns. Winner of national and international competitions, including the New York International Cello Competition, the Vittorio Veneto Competition, the Concurso Soncello , he performed in prestigious halls including the Carnegie Hall in New York. He plays as a soloist with prestigious orchestras including the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia , the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (OSI), Chursächsiche Philarmonie, collaborating with conductors such as José Trigueros, Arturo Tamayo, Johannes Goritzki, Marc Kissoczy, Florian Merz, his father Guido Maria Guida. He was a De Sono and Lyra Stiftung scholarship holder.

Riccardo Ronda

He studied at the Conservatory of Parma with Roberto Cappello and Francesco Guideri. He graduated with honors at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland in the class of Anna Kravtchenko. He studied also with Leonid Margarius at the Academy of Imola and with Alberto Miodini in Parma. He won the first prize at the Giovannini Competition in Reggio Emilia and the Prix du Jeune Jury (Lausanne) at the CIML in Lausanne. He has an intense concert activity with particular attention to chamber music. He has performed in important concert institutions in Italy and abroad such as the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Misano Piano Festival, in duo with Roberto Cappello (Busoni Prize 1976), the Trimontiada Festival, Amici della Musica in Padua, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Hall del Lac in Lugano and others.

BIOGRAPHY

The Kobalt Trio, formed by Irenè Fiorito (violin), Lorenzo Guida (cello) and Riccardo Ronda (piano), was born in 2022 at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, studying chamber music with Pavel Berman. From 2022 to 2024 they attended the Perosi Academy in Biella in the class of the Parma Trio, winning two scholarships. The Trio is currently studying at the CRR in Paris under the guidance of the Wanderer Trio. The Kobalt Trio attended prestigious masterclass with Misha Maisky, Olivier Charlier, Emmanuel Strosser, Claire Désert, Lise Berthaud, Simone Gramaglia, Eckart Runge, Antonio Valentino and Oliver Wille, receiving unanimous certificates of esteem.

The Kobalt Trio has won numerous awards in national and international competitions: it was the winner of the First Absolute Prize and the Audience Award at the European Chamber Music Competition “Gasparo da Salò” in Brescia (2023); of the AMUR Competition for New Talents (2024), of the Renzo Giubergia Award (2024), of the Filippo Nicosia Chamber Music Award, winning a recording with the DaVinci Classics label (2024).

The Trio was also invited as Ensemble in Residence, the first Italian group, at the prestigious Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron, France (2024). It regularly performs in Italy and abroad: in particular it has performed at the Auditorium of the Parc du Château de Florans (La Roque d'Anthéron), the Festival Musica Insieme (Bologna), the Sala Verdi in Turin, the Musèe Bourdelle in Paris, the Unione Musicale in Turin, the Società Filarmonica di Trento, the Casalmaggiore International Festival, Forlì Musica, the Teatro all'Antica in Sabbioneta and other national and international festivals. It is a member of the “Dimore del Quartetto”.

LORENZO GUIDA plays the Erminio Farina 1910 cello, on free loan from the Antonio Carlo Monzino Foundation.
IRENÈ FIORITO plays a Joseph Ceruti violin from 1848 kindly loaned by the ProCanale Foundation of Milan.