Alessandro Moccia studied violin with Felice Cusano at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Music in Milan, where he graduated with a first class honours degree in 1986. He subsequently attended a post-graduate course given by Salvatore Accardo at the W. Stauffer Foundation. Since 1987 he has been teaching at the Cagliari Conservatoire of Music and carrying on a concert activity as a soloist in Europe, South America and Japan, and in chamber ensembles in various European Festivals with such musicians as Accardo, Cusano, Gutman, Howard, Franco Maggio Ormezorwski, Mendhelssohn, Vernikov, Heisser, Meunier and Meyer. In parallel to this, since he is extremely interested in the techniques of playing period instruments, in 1991 he set up the Turner Quartet with which he toured the whole world and recorded four CDs with music by Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. His latest CD comprising Beethoven’s Quartets Op. 59 n° 3 and Op. 74 was released by the prestigious Harmonia Mundi recording company which had also previously released the complete Quartets Op. 18 by Beethoven. In 1991, Philippe Herreweghe chose him as First Violin with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, which performs the Classical and Romantic repertoire on period instruments. This Orchestra performs in Europe’s leading concert halls and carries on an extensive recording activity. Mr. Moccia performed Beethoven’s Triple Concert as a soloist in this Orchestra with Anner Bijlisma and Andreas Steier in 1993 and with Pietr Wiespelwey and Ronald Brautigam in 1998. Since August 1999 he has been playing as First Violin with the Köln Radio Orchestra, invited by the conductor Semyon Bychkov. He is engaged with the Turner Quartet in an extensive teaching activity and he contributes, in the violin sector, to Fuzeau Editions (France), with which he realised a critical edition in three volumes on the violin repertoire from 1600 to 1800. He has performed in world-famous concert-halls (France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, England, Italy, Japan, Australia, United States, Soviet Union, South America, etc.).

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