Giuseppe D'Amico

Graduated in double bass in 2007 at “G. da Venosa” Conservatory of Potenza, he obtained a II level degree from the “E.R. Duni” Conservatory of Matera in 2012, with 110 cum laude. He specialized with Maestro Franco Petracchi at the Chigiana Academy in Siena, where he obtained the diploma of merit for three times and at the W. Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
Since 2015 he has collaborated with the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra as 1st and 2nd double bass. Since 2017 he has collaborated as a double bass with the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. He has held concerts and masterclasses in Italy and abroad, including a masterclass as a double bass teacher at the "Conservatorio National de Musica" in Lima (Peru) and in concerts as soloist in the main Italian cities and abroad: Auditorium of Lima Cathedral, Residence of the Italian Ambassador in Lima (for this event the music pieces were written specifically), Italian Institute of Culture in Mexico City, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Budapest, Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest, Acal Leivas Academy in Austria, as artist in residence, in Argentina with a tour of 5 concerts in the most important institutions of Buenos Aires. His Trio for double bass, piano and clarinet was performed for the first time in Buenos Aires. He performed in the main Italian theaters and festivals in Italy and abroad: Teatro alla Scala, Massimo di Palermo, Taormina, Auditorium della Conciliazione Roma, Teatro di Udine, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, Berlin, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Austria, Israel, Switzerland. He is regularly invited to all competitions for first instrument of the major European orchestras.
He composed the piece Stava lì la Madre, for the first edition of the sacred music festival Sursum Corda, organised by Accademia Ducale centro studi musicali Foundation in 2019, an event that obtained the patronage of the Italian Parliament (Chamber of Deputies). In 2019 he recorded a monographic album on Julien–François Zbinden, published by “Da Vinci Publishing”, the Japanese music publishing house of Osaka. He also writes opera librettos, performed by the Ensemble of Accademia Ducale Foundation and, as a
writer, he has published two novels. After the experience in South America he studied pieces by Italian composers of the Ibero-American tradition, forgotten in Europe, very appreciated works, performed and broadcasted by the Mexican Noticias 22 Digital El noticiario cultural de México and presented at Notti Sacre Festival in Bari.
He is the Artistic Director of Accademia Ducale Foundation, an Institution recognised by the Italian Ministry of Culture for the period 2022/24. Thanks to him, the Foundation established partnerships and signed agreements with important Institutions in Italy and abroad. One of the most important is the collaboration with the L.v. Beethoven Research Center that recovered a forgotten Overture written by
Beethoven inspired by the Macbeth Opera and lost in the depths of history. It was performed in a concert in Potenza (Italy) with Accademia Ducale Ensemble and the great violinist Sholomo Mintz who started a stable collaboration with the Ensemble, with M. D'Amico and the Accademia Ducale Foundation. They plan to play, in the next hears, the other rediscovered compositions of the great master of Bonn. The Italian magazine Suonare News defines maestro D'Amico's project as one of the most innovative in Southern Italy. He was responsible for the establishment of the Accademia Ducale Ensemble which is creating prestigious concert seasons. His idea is to create a Study Center that deals with the research of works from the past, the rediscovery of forgotten authors and the production of new music through the organization of composition competitions to enrich, every hear, the contemporary musical panorama. As composer, Maestro D'Amico has favored contact and collaboration with the SIMC - Italian Society of Contemporary Music, of which he is a member, and with the CIDIM (Italian National Music Committee). In CIDIM website there is a page of his biography, a profile of Accademia Ducale Foundation and two interviews addressed to him #tempocalmo: 5 questions to musicians in times of coronavirus: Giuseppe D'Amico and "Magnificat: composing the sacred in our time". In 2021 Il Giornale della Musica and the well-known musicologist Renzo Cresti define the Accademia Ducale project as one of the most significant and important in southern Italy.