Matteo Cimatti

Matteo Cimatti is a prize-winning Italian violinist who has been praised by ANSA for his “refined playing and melodious and intense tone. Based between London and Switzerland, he has appeared alongside several European orchestras and at numerous festivals  and is also an accomplished and enthusiastic chamber player.

In May 2025, he was named as one of the winners at the 2025 Young Classical Artist Trust (YCAT) International Auditions.

Matteo has appeared as a soloist alongside several orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, London Firebird Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, and has performed in numerous festivals and concert seasons such as the Sion Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Musica Insieme Bologna and Musikdorf Ernen among others.

Upcoming highlights include debuts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Berlin, a return to Wigmore Hall as well as appearances at several festivals including the Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Frühling and Beethovenfest Bonn.

Matteo is a Burletti-Buitoni Trust nominee and has won numerous awards and accolades at national and international competitions, including awards from the the Fondation Leenaards, Rahn Kulturfonds the Councours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne and the Premio Postacchini International Violin Competition.

An avid chamber musician since a very young age, Matteo enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player and has performed alongside such musicians as Janine Jansen, Enrico Pace, Candida Thompson and Suyeon Kang.

He is a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel, which was a prize winner at the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition in November 2024 and has appeared at several festivals including Musikdorf Ernen and Swiss Chamber Music Festival Adelboden.

Matteo completed a Soloist Masters Degree at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU) in July 2024, where he studied with Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He previously earned Masters and Bachelors degrees from HEMU studying with Svetlana Makarova and Pavel Vernikov. Matteo has also been mentored by David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has benefited from lessons with such pedagogues as Miriam Fried, Mihaela Martin and Gerhard Schulz among others.

Matteo Cimatti plays a 1769 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor.