Bruto Diodato "Uto" Ughi (; born 21 January 1944) is an Italian

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ist and

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. He was the music director of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia between 1987 and 1992. He is considered one of Italy's greatest living violinists and is also active in the promotion of classical music in today's culture.

Career

When he was young he started to play the violin, at only «5 or 6 years» he said, and he made his debut at 7 years old, at the Teatro Lirico di

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o. At 12 years he was considered a mature artist. He involves himself in many activities to promote music culture. He is the founder of several music festivals, namely "Omaggio a Venezia", "Omaggio a Roma" (1999–2002) and "Uto Ughi per Roma." In tandem with Bruno Tosi, Uto Ughi instituted the musical prize "Una vita per la Musica" ("A life for Music"). On September 4, 1997, he was commissioned ''Cavaliere della Gran Croce'' by the Italian President and in 2002 he received a

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. He has won various awards, the most prestigious "Una vita per la musica - Leonard Bernstein" (23/6/1997), "Galileo 2000" prize (5/7/2003) and the international prize "Ostia Mare" (8/8/2003). Ughi has possessed the following fine instruments: the ''Van Houten-Kreutzer'' (1701) and ''Sinsheimer-General Kyd-Perlman'' (1714) by

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; and the ''Kortschak-Wurlitzer'' (1739), ''Ole Bull'' (1744) and ''Cariplo-Hennel-Rosé'' (1744) by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù. He received the ''America Award'' of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2015.

Discography

Studio albums

Other albums

Bibliography

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References

External links

Uto Ughi official website
1944 births Living people People from Busto Arsizio Italian classical violinists Male classical violinists Italian male conductors (music) 21st-century Italian conductors (music) 21st-century Italian male musicians 21st-century classical violinists {{violinist-stub