Eros
Roselli was born in Senigallia (Italy). He started to study the
classical guitar at the age of ten. He gratuated with top marks at the
Brescia Conservatory under the guidance of Ruggero Chiesa following
which he has taken part in Masterclasses with Manuel Barrueco, Angelo
Gilardino, Eliot Fisk and David Russell.
After
winning various prizes in competitions for young guitarists, he came to
the forefront thanks to the prizes and awards he won at numerous
International competitions, including the "F. Sor"
International Competition in Rome, the International Festival of 20th
Century Music of Lagonegro, the International Award "Sua Altezza
Real la Infanta Doña Cristina" (Fundaciòn Guerrero) in Madrid and
the Barcelona Concurso Internacional "Maria Canals".
Since
1985 he has performed in concert in Italy and abroad both as a soloist
and in chamber groups for important societies ("Asolo Musica", Gnessin
Academy in Moscow, Innsbruck Conservatory, I Concerti
del Quirinale, Derby Classical Guitar Society, Sala Maffeiana in
Verona, Verona University, Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, Gioventù
Musicale d’Italia, "Amici della Musica" in Ferrara...). His solo repertoire ranges from
16th-century music to works by contemporary composers. With different
chamber groups (guitar duo, duo with violin or flute, trio flute viola
and guitar, quartet violin viola cello and guitar or guitar and string
quartet) he plays music by Boccherini, Paganini, Schubert, Carulli,
Giuliani, Diabelli, De Fossa, Haydn, Beethoven-Matiegka, Bozza, Villa
Lobos, Vivaldi, Ibert, Santorsola...
His performances have been
broadcast by private companies in Italy, for the Italian State
Broadcasting Authority RAI, for BBC, for Radio Nacional Española, for Classic New York (WNYC)
and for Australia’s National Classical Music Network.
With Urs Mächler Ensemble,
in 1994, Eros Roselli has recorded for Nuova Era a compact disc (Mauro
Giuliani: chamber works with guitar") containing the first
recording of Mauro Giuliani's quintets for guitar and strings. For
Italian label
Classic Art
he has recorded works for guitar and strings by Vivaldi and a CD
dedicated to solo guitar pieces by Niccolò Paganini. A project about
chamber works by Anton Diabelli has been released with English label
ASV
in November 2000 and another with Studies for guitar by Fernando Sor
has been released by
SOMM
Recordings. In 2002 Italian label
Maxima
Harmonia has published a CD with works for solo guitar by Bach.
For
Brilliant Classics Eros Roselli has recorded in 2006 with
Magnifica Comunità the quintets for guitar and strings by Luigi
Boccherini.
His arrangements for guitar have been
published by Edizioni Musicali
Sinfonica. In 2005 he has began an
activity as composer and he has written works for various chamber groups
with guitar or for other ensembles, edited by
Edizioni Sconfinarte.
He currently teaches classical
guitar in the State
Conservatoire in Mantova.
In
1984 he took a degree in sociology at the University of Trento when he
wrote a thesis on contemporary music.