Giovanni Sollima, Alessandro Gandola

Giovanni Sollima is an Italian cellist and composer known for his eclectic post-minimalist style and collaborations with diverse artists from several genres. Also a scholar and educator, he teaches at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Sollima was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1962, to a musical family. His siblings are musicians, and his father, Eliodoro Sollima, was a pianist and composer. Sollima started studying the cello with Giovanni Perriera when he was ten years old, and he also began exploring composition with his father. After graduating from the Conservatory ...