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Francesca Dego

VIOLIN

Representation: General Management

Italian American violinist Francesca Dego is celebrated for her versatility, compelling interpretations, and flawless technique.

Her 2024/25 season includes debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Luisi with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. She also performs with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Sinfonica di Milano, La Toscanini, Vancouver Symphony, Detroit and San Diego symphony orchestras, Orchestre de Cannes, and makes her debut with the Luxembourg Philharmonic at Flaneries Musicales de Reims. In recital, she appears at the Wigmore Hall with Alessandro Taverna, and Belfast International Chamber Festival and Dubai Opera with Francesca Leonardi.

Recent engagement highlights include appearances across Japan with NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi, with Washington National and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras, Orquesta de Castilla y León, and Orchestre de Champs Elysées with Maestro Herreweghe, as well as debuts with Swedish Radio Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, West Australian Symphony, and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. Re-invitations include the Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn, and Brucknerhaus Linz. She has also appeared with the Tokyo Metropolitan, and Tokyo Symphony orchestras, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, at St Petersburg’s renowned Stars of the White Nights Festival, and in spring 2023 jumped in at short notice to make her Canadian debut with the orchestra of the National Arts Centre Ottawa. Recent European highlights include Bernstein’s Serenade at La Fenice, appearances with Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice; Oviedo Philharmonic; Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne; Orquestra de Sevilla and Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana; L’Orchestra dell’Opera Carlo Felice Genova; Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; and at the Teatro Regio di Torino. UK highlights include the BBC Symphony, Ulster, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, and Royal Scottish National orchestras, as well as the National Youth Orchestra.

In 2023 she made her recording debut with the London Symphony Orchestra as the first artist to be featured on the new Apple Classical platform in ‘A New Dawn’ featuring Bologne’s Chevalier de St Georges Concerto No. 2 alongside conductor Jonathon Heyward. She regularly collaborates with esteemed conductors, amongst them Fabio Luisi, Philippe Herreweghe, Daniele Rustioni, Lionel Bringuier, Dalia Stasevska, Markus Stenz, Donato Renzetti, Gemma New, Jader Bignamini, Alpesh Chauhan, Asher Fisch, Markus Poschner, Krzysztof Urbański, and Xian Zhang.

A keen chamber musician, Francesca enjoys performing with artists including Francesco Piemontesi, Daniel Müller-Schott, Timothy Ridout, Jan Lisiecki, Salvatore Accardo, Alessandro Carbonare, Mahan Esfahani, Bruno Giuranna, Shlomo Mintz, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Federico Colli, Mischa Maisky, Antonio Meneses, Martin Owen, Alessandro Taverna, Enrico Dindo, Alessio Bax, Roman Simovic, and Francesca Leonardi.

Francesca is signed exclusively to Chandos Records. With a growing discography, her most recent recording of the violin concertos of Busoni and Brahms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska was released in March 2024, for which she was awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize. Her recordings of the complete Mozart violin concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Sir Roger Norrington were received to unanimous critical acclaim, including BBC Music Magazine five star ‘Record of the month’. In June 2024 Chandos released an album of the horn trios of Brahms, Ligeti, Mozart, and Schumann, for which Francesca teamed up with Martin Owen, horn, and Alessandro Taverna, piano. Other releases on Chandos include the recital disc Il Cannone with previous releases on Deutsche Grammophon including concertos by Paganini and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari alongside the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Daniele Rustioni and a complete survey of the violin sonatas by Beethoven and Paganini’s Caprices.

Francesca also has a passion for contemporary music and counts herself a dedicatee of the works of Michael Nyman, Carlo Boccadoro, Cristian Carrara, Nicola Campogrande, and Marco Taralli, amongst others. She is a frequent contributor to specialist music magazines including penning a monthly column for Suonare News and has written articles and opinion pieces for The Strad, BBC and Classical Music Magazines, Musical Opinion, and Strings Magazine. Francesca has also recently published her first book with Mondadori — Tra le Note. Classica: 24 chiavi di lettura — in which she explores the relevance, application, and deeper understanding of classical music in the modern day.

Francesca is based in London and plays a rare Francesco Ruggeri violin (Cremona 1697).

Artist website: www.francescadego.com

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Dego’s latest Busoni album with Chandos Records released today

November 1st, 2024

Violinist Francesca Dego’s latest album is released by Chandos Records today. Having recorded, and in March 2024, released the violin concertos of Brahms and Busoni with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska, this newest album features Busoni’s violin sonatas and ‘Four Bagatelles’. Francesca says “It has been amazing to record Busoni’s complete violinRead more ›

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Francesca Dego takes Busoni’s Violin Concerto to the Ascona Festival

September 6th, 2024

This evening, violinist Francesca Dego takes Busoni’s dazzlingly virtuosic Violin Concerto to the Settimane Musicali di Ascona. For this, the centrepiece of the programme, Dego joins the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and conductor Jader Bignamini. In March 2024, her recording of the work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska, a familiar collaboratorRead more ›

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Francesca Dego makes concerto debut in Australia

June 26th, 2024

Over the next two weeks, celebrated Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego makes her debut with both the Queensland and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. Francesca joins these ensembles on stage for the violin concertos of Sibelius in Queensland and Shostakovich (No. 1 in A minor) in Perth, both alongside conductor Asher Fisch. These keenly anticipated Australian concertoRead more ›

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Recent releases from JBM artists

June 13th, 2024

Over the last few weeks, album releases have come thick and fast with exciting additions to the discographies of several JBM artists. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor joined forces with fellow celebrated artists Nicola Benedetti and Sheku Kanneh-Mason for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside folk song settings with baritone Gerald Finley released on Decca Classics. “As rivals, Benedetti,Read more ›

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Francesca Dego’s Chandos release of Brahms and Busoni

March 1st, 2024

Today sees the release of Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego’s latest concerto album alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska. Having performed the Brahms since she was a teenager, and no stranger to taking the Busoni to the concert platform, the release of Francesca Dego’s latest album on the Chandos labelRead more ›

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Reviews

Chandos Records: Busoni Violin Sonatas (released Nov 2024)

“Such a richly rewarding recording. Violinist Francesca Dego is a rising star who illuminates these timeless concertos with flawless technique and a depth of emotion that is all too rarely heard these days.”

Greg Cahill, Strings Magazine (May/June 2024 issue)

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Chandos Records: Mozart Violin Concertos

“It’s a challenge to make [these concertos] sound fresh. Yet the youthful Francesca Dego and the seasoned, ever-questing Roger Norrington, on his last recording, achieve that in spades … Dego’s playing creates a spirit of delighted, sometimes whimsical improvisation … Norrington and the 25-strong RSNO keep the accompaniments buoyant, and gleefully seize on every opportunity for operatic dialogues with the soloist. This is chamber music writ large … a delectable album… If you think you’ve heard these concertos once too often, this could be just the tonic.” – Richard Wigmore, October 2022

Gramophone Magazine

“This recording is characterized by excellently balanced interpretations and a light-hearted and fluid gesture … these are distinctly eloquent, finely woven interpretations”

Uwe Krusch, Pizzicato, October 2022

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Discography

A New Dawn
LSO and Apple Music have released “A New Dawn” a powerful collection of familiar and lesser-known works, featuring the star violinist Francesco Dego in Bologne’s Concerto Op.5 no.2 in A major.
APPLE MUSIC (2022)

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Mozart Violin Concertos 2 The follow up to their first collaboration, Francesca Dego and Sir Roger Norrington return to the studio for the third & fourth violin concertos,  once again joined by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Notably, the first time either soloist or conductor has recorded the works.  Of the first album, The Sunday Times noted ‘Pairing the veteran Mozartian Norrington – a pioneer of historical performance practice – with the young Italian-American soloist Dego proves inspiring in what promises to be one of the freshest of recent cycles of the Mozart concertos.’
CHANDOS (2022)

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Mozart Francesca Dego joins forces with the legendary conductor and period performance pioneer Sir Roger Norrington and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for this recording of Mozart’s Third and Fourth Violin Concertos – the first time either soloist or conductor has recorded the works.
CHANDOS (2021)

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