Matteo Cimatti

Matteo Cimatti has been praised for his “refined playing and melodious and intense tone”.

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Based between London and Switzerland, Matteo Cimatti has appeared alongside several European orchestras and at numerous festivals, and is also an accomplished and enthusiastic chamber player. In May 2025, he was selected as one of the winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Final Auditions.

Upcoming highlights include his debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Fruhling, a return to Wigmore Hall and the Brahms concerto with the London Firebird Orchestra.

In 2024, Matteo graduated from the Haute École Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, where he most recently studied with Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He has appeared as a soloist alongside several orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and has performed in numerous festivals and concert seasons such as the Sion Festival, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Festival dei Due Mondi, Musikdorf Ernen and the Ticino Music Festival among others.

Matteo has received awards from the Rahn Kulturfonds and the Concours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne, and has been a prize winner in leading competitions including the Concours Feast of Duos International, Premio Postacchini International Violin, and Premio Crescendo.

A chamber music enthusiast from a very young age, Matteo enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player. He is a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel.

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

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To book Matteo please contact:

Etta Dainty – Senior Artist Manager [email protected]

Joe Linton - Assistant Artist Manager [email protected]

0207 379 8477

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