Biography
Maddalena Del Gobbo is a versatile artist who plays the cello, viola da gamba, and baryton. She is an internationally renowned soloist, known for her expressiveness and unmistakable tone. She has released three albums with Deutsche Grammophon and has been nominated for international classical music awards and her upcoming album „Maddalena in Wonderland“ will be released with Supreme Classics.
In recent years, she has focused mainly on the viola da gamba due to her love for Baroque music and also to introduce this beautiful instrument to a wider audience. She now wants to devote more attention again also to the classical and romantic cello repertoire, for which she has developed a unique approach thanks to her knowledge and experience in early music.
In 2020, Maddalena gave the first solo viola da gamba recital in Istanbul since the Baroque period. In 2022, she performed the first early music concert in the new CSO ADA concert hall in Ankara.
She has appeared as a soloist at the Salzburg Festival, at the “Barocktage Melk” and “Bayreuth Baroque” festivals, at the Vienna Musikverein, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, and other major festivals and concert series.
With the viola da gamba, she also plays in a trio with Tamás Varga (principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic) and Robert Bauerstatter (viola, Vienna Philharmonic), a formation specializing in the music of Joseph Haydn and other composers from the court of Prince Esterházy.
Education
Born in Italy, her exceptional talent led her to Vienna at the age of 13, where she was accepted into the conservatory and later completed her cello studies with a master’s degree in concert performance with distinction.
She has attended numerous masterclasses with renowned cellists such as Eleonore Schoenfeld, Antonio Janigro’s student Gustavo Tavares, Dobrila Bergovic, and many others.
Maddalena has performed as a cello soloist, both with piano and orchestra, in chamber music ensembles—including concerts and tours with members of the Vienna Philharmonic—and in the stage orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. She has taken part in several tours as a chamber musician and soloist in Europe and Asia.
Maddalena has also given masterclasses, teaching both cellists and viol players, for the renowned “Accademia Stauffer” in Cremona (Italy), the “Scandinavian Cello School,” and has served as a jury member for international competitions such as the “Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer Wettbewerb” in Austria.
In 2023, she was invited by the Joseph Haydn Private University (Austria) to give a masterclass on the music of Joseph Haydn, being considered an expert on his work, and has just written an article for a publication of that university.
Maddalena plays a 1765 cello by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi.
