Uto Ughi

Bruto "Uto" Ughi (; born 21 January 1944) is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia between 1987 and 1992. He is considered one of Italy's greatest living violinists and is also active in the promotion of classical music in today's culture.

Career When he was young he started to play the violin, at only «5 or 6 years» he said, and he made his debut at 7 years old, at the Teatro Lirico di Milano. At 12 years he was considered a mature artist.

He involves himself in many activities to promote music culture. He is the founder of several music festivals, namely "Omaggio a Venezia", "Omaggio a Roma" (1999–2002) and "Uto Ughi per Roma." In tandem with Bruno Tosi, Uto Ughi instituted the musical prize "Una vita per la Musica" ("A life for Music").

On September 4, 1997, he was commissioned Cavaliere della Gran Croce by the Italian President and in 2002 he received a degree honoris causa in Communication studies. He has won various awards, the most prestigious "Una vita per la musica - Leonard Bernstein" (23/6/1997), "Galileo 2000" prize (5/7/2003) and the international prize "Ostia Mare" (8/8/2003).

Ughi has possessed the following fine instruments: the Van Houten-Kreutzer (1701) and Sinsheimer-General Kyd-Perlman (1714) by Antonio Stradivari; and the Kortschak-Wurlitzer (1739), Ole Bull (1744) and Cariplo-Hennel-Rosé (1744) by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù.

He received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2015.

Discography Studio albums Re-released: 2019 Label: Sony Classical Barcode: 0190759562628 Re-released: 2005 Label: Stradivarius Barcode: 8011570000781 Format: CD Performed with Orchestra da Camera di Santa Cecilia 1986 Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 - Sarasate - Carmen Fantasy Released: 1986 Label: RCA Red Seal Format: CD, LP Performed with Orchestra da Camera di Santa Cecilia 1988 Paganini Violin Concertos No. 2 "La Campanella" and No. 4 Released: 1988 Label: RCA Victor Red Seal Format: CD Performed with Chamber Orchestra of Santa Cecilia 1991 Dvořák - Violin Concerto - Romance - Romantic Pieces Released: 1991 Label: RCA Victor Red Seal Format: CD Performed with Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin 2013 Violino Romantico Released: May 14, 2013 Label: Sony Classical Format: CD, digital download Performed with I Filarmonici di Roma

Other albums YearAlbum detailsNotes 1994 Beethoven - Tchaikovsky violin concertos including :

Violin Concerto in D Maj, op.61

Violin Concerto in D Maj, op.35 Released: 1994 Label: Ermitage Format: CD Performed with the Radiotelevisione svizzera Orchestra and conducted by Marc Andreae TV broadcasts respectively from 1970 and 1981, released in CD after digital remastering