Fulvio Luciani
A pupil of Paolo Borciani, first violin of the Quartetto Italiano, Franco Gulli and Norbert Brainin, Fulvio Luciani is the founder and first violin of the Quartetto Borciani. In many ways a loner, always unconventional in his approach to his music-making, he is the first ever to have performed Sivoriʼs Twelve Caprice-Studies; he has also recorded the complete works of Schumann for violin and piano, and has organised and performed a series of concerts for solo violin spanning over seven centuries. He has played Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas with Schumann’s piano accompaniment, the violin and piano repertoire of Dushkin and Stravinsky, and Liszt’s works for violin, together with more familiar repertoire. He has worked with Siegfried Palm, Hatto Beyerle, Bruno Canino, Antonio Ballista, Riccardo Zadra, Paolo Bordoni, Enrico Dindo and Massimiliano Motterle, and has appeared at famous venues, including the Teatro alla Scala. His performances have been recorded by Sky Classica, which has dedicated documentaries to him. He is an enthusiastic teacher and enjoys writing. Ricordi have published his edition of Sivoriʼs Twelve Caprice- Studies. He has won the ʻAntonio Vivaldiʼ International Record Award presented by the Venice-based Fondazione Cini.

Massimiliano Motterle
graduated with the highest distinction from the Milan Verdi Conservatory and has been a prizewinner in more than 20 national and international competitions, including the Budapest Liszt Competition, the Cincinnati International Competition, Valencia Concorso Iturbi and Parma Concorso Internazionale. He completed his training with the eminent pianists Lazar Berman, Paul Badura-Skoda and Alexis Weissenberg. He made his début in Milan at the age of 21 as soloist in Rachmaninovʼs Piano Concerto No 3 and has since then appeared with important orchestras such as the RAI Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Liszt Chamber Orchestra, in collaboration with conductors including Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Piercarlo Orizio, András Ligeti, Riccardo Frizza and Jonathan Webb. He has collaborated with artists such as Andreas Brantelid, Karin Dornbusch, and the Scala String Quartet and for some years has been working regularly with Fulvio Luciani.