Biography
The 2025/26 season will open for Giulia Rimonda with a remarkable debut: Respighi’s Concerto Gregoriano with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra at the Forbidden City Concert Hall. This milestone marks the beginning of a new chapter filled with international projects, following a year rich in prestigious collaborations.
In the previous season, Giulia embarked on a tour with the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, made her debut with the Orchestra della Toscana, and performed Tchaikovsky‘s Violin Concerto at the Grand Amphithéâtre of the Sorbonne in Paris. She also began a three-year residency with the Orchestra Filarmonica Campana, inaugurated with Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, and gave the world premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino‘s “Due cori per l’Agamennone”. Her engagements included performances at the Quirinale Palace (broadcast live on Rai Radio 3), the Teatro dei Rozzi in Siena, and the 2024 opening concert of Stiftung Villa Musica.
Over the past year, she has collaborated with musicians such as Kian Soltani, Marc Bouchkov, Adrien La Marca, Avi Avital, Petrit Ceku, Sarah Willis, Patrick Gallois, and Frank Dupree, performing under the baton of conductors including Nikolaj Znaider, Umberto Clerici, and Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.
“I first met Giulia Rimonda in Turin when she was 16 years old. She made a very strong impression playing the Tchaikovsky concerto in a manner well beyond her years. Since then I have had the chance to listen to and work with Giulia on many occasions and I remain convinced that she will enjoy a rich and fruitful life in and with music. Giulia has a curious and inquisitive nature as well as great discipline and devotion to her instrument.”
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Winner of numerous awards, Giulia has been Artist in Residence at the Società dei Concerti di Milano and recipient of the Giovanna Maniezzo Prize from the Accademia Chigiana. She has also won the 2022 Roscini-Padalino Prize from the Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica and received scholarships from the Settimane del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, the Accademia Chigiana, CIDIM for the “Talenti Musicali Italiani nel Mondo” project, and the Associazione De Sono di Torino. Since June 2024, Giulia has been selected as a fellow of the Stiftung Villa Musica.
She performs at prestigious festivals and venues including the Royal Opera House in Muscat, the Havana Classica Festival, the Amphithéâtre Richelieu in Paris, the Società dei Concerti di Trieste, Micat in Vertice, Amici della Musica di Firenze, the Società dei Concerti di Bolzano, Bologna Festival, Perugia Musica Classica, the Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, as well as at Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes in China (Beijing), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich), Norway (Oslo), Cuba (Havana), and Kuwait (Kuwait City).
Giulia currently lives in Berlin and studies with Sergey Khachatryan in the Solistenexamen program at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She previously lived in Paris, where she studied with Boris Garlitsky and was a resident at the Maison de l’Italie (2022–2024). A former student of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Giulia began studying the violin at the age of four with her father, Guido Rimonda, and graduated at the age of 20 from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
With a keen interest in communication and in engaging younger audiences with classical music, Giulia is the creator of Resonance - a glimpse into the life of a musician, a video and audio podcast exploring the contemporary life of classical music. The project is produced in collaboration with the Associazione Amici di Giovanna Maniezzo (Rome) and promoted by WildKat PR.
She collaborates regularly with pianist Lorenzo Nguyen (Trio Concept, formerly Trio Chagall). In March 2024 they released a CD for Suonare News featuring works by Respighi, Ravel, and Dvořák. At the age of fifteen, she recorded Leclair’s Sonata for Two Violins No. 2, Op. 3 for Decca Universal, together with her father, as part of the album Le Violon Noir II. At nineteen, she joined the editorial team of Archi Magazine for the online series Staccato, working with artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Julian Rachlin, Vadim Repin, Luigi Piovano, Giovanni Gnocchi, and the Quartetto di Cremona in leading Italian concert seasons.
Giulia plays a 1720 Domenico Montagnana violin and a 1983 Dario Vernè violin named “Al tuo cammino” generously donated by the Vernè family.