Luigi Attademo

He has recorded fifteen CDs, including monographic albums dedicated to the Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, to Johann Sebastian Bach, to the unpublished works from the Segovia Archive, and to the Quintets of Luigi Boccherini.

A Philosophy graduate with a thesis on musical interpretation, he has published numerous musicological and aesthetic articles in specialized journals. As a musicologist, in October 2002 he curated the cataloguing of Andrés Segovia’s manuscripts (published in La Roseta, the journal of the Sociedad Española de la Guitarra), discovering previously unknown works by composers such as Tansman, Pahissa, Cassadò, and others.

A large part of his discography is devoted to monographic projects, including the complete recording of J. S. Bach’s Lute Suites (Brilliant Classics, 2011) and the complete works of Niccolò Paganini for solo guitar, performed for the first time in their entirety on a historical instrument (Brilliant Classics, 2013).

In 2014, Amadeus magazine dedicated an issue to him featuring a monographic CD on Fernando Sor. In 2016, he premiered—first in Lausanne and later in Kyiv—a new work by Alessandro Solbiati, the Concerto for Guitar and Fifteen Instruments, written for him.

He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the world—from Australia to Korea, from the United States to India—and in the most important European capitals.

His chamber music collaborations have included projects with accordionist Francesco Gesualdi, violinist Cristiano Rossi, the Quartetto di Cremona and Cuarteto Casals, cellist Martti Rousi, and pianists Roberto Prosseda and Orazio Sciortino, and more recently with the Quartetto Guadagnini and the Quartetto Lyskamm.
For over ten years he has performed regularly with Simone Gramaglia, violist of the Quartetto di Cremona, with whom he has recorded an album dedicated to Niccolò Paganini and a second one—released in September 2024 by Da Vinci Classics—dedicated to Franz Schubert.

In 2017, Attademo curated an exhibition for the Museo del Violino in Cremona dedicated to the great luthier Antonio Torres, performing in concert on several original instruments by the maker.
This was followed in 2018 by the CD A Spanish Portrait (Brilliant Classics), devoted to Spanish repertoire and recorded on an original Torres guitar. The album received unanimous critical acclaim (including “Recording of the Month” from Amadeus) and earned him the cover of the Italian magazine Seicorde.
He regularly performs on various historical guitars, including a Torres/Ramirez 1868/1903 and a Fabricatore 1832.

He has been invited as a teacher by prestigious institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, among others.
In 2022 he was invited to participate as a soloist and juror at the Guitar Foundation of America Festival, where he returned in 2023.
At the end of 2022, he released with Brilliant Classics his most recent solo recording project, dedicated to J. S. Bach and reissued on vinyl in 2023; this was followed by a volume of transcriptions published by Casa Ricordi.

He currently holds the guitar professorship at the “Maderna-Lettimi” Conservatory in Cesena and at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.