Hugo Ticciati

Violinist, Violin and Musicology Instructor: Lilla Akademien

Stockholm, Sweden

Regional Coordinator
Academic Planning Associate

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Hugo Ticciati combines a career as a concert violinist with teaching the violin, improvisation and music history at the specialist music school in Stockholm, Lilla Akademien. After studying with Simon Fischer, author of the acclaimed Basics, he went to Canada on scholarship to study with David Zafer. For the last eight years he has been doing a specialist instrumental programme with the Russian violinists, Nina and Oleg Balabina. In 2007 he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music in the United Kingdom; his dissertation was entitled ‘An Exploration of Nostalgia in the works of Beethoven, Brahms and Berg’.

After his debut with Svendsen’s Romance in the Edinburgh Festival and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hugo has performed extensively in solo and chamber music recitals all over Europe. Forthcoming seasons include concertos with orchestras in France, Sweden, Italy, Rumania, Estonia, New Zealand and Egypt. Besides various scholarships he has won the international competitions Giovani Talenti and the Mendelssohn Cup , both in Italy.

Hugo leads the newly-founded Schrabiati string quartet which will shortly play in Russia. He also directs La Ronde des Violons, a group of twelve violinists, which will be touring Sweden, China, Denmark and Belgium this year. Recently, Hugo has been invited to give masterclasses and seminars on violin pedagogy in Sweden, New Zealand and St Petersburg.

Besides his normal teaching duties at Lilla Akademien, Hugo also works, in conjunction with a number of students, on how to integrate, on the one hand, the technical process of playing with the physical aspects of meditation and, on the other, the creative process of playing with the spiritual aspects of meditation—what is sometimes called ‘intuitive playing’. Here lies his greatest passion.