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Classical cellist, keyboardist, percussionist and music composer, born 24 October 1962 in Palermo, Italy.
ALBUMS
Jorge Bosso, Dora Schwarzberg, Giovanni Sollima, Enrico Dindo, Mario Brunello
Brothers
2024, CD, Album, Da Vinci Classics, 
,
, Baroque/Contemporary
J.S. Bach* - Giovanni Sollima
Cello Suites
2024, 3xCD, Album, Brilliant Classics
Jacques Offenbach - Giovanni Sollima, Andrea Noferini
Complete Duos For 2 Cellos
2023, 7xCD, Album + Box, Brilliant Classics, Brilliant Classics, Brilliant Classics, Brilliant Classics, Brilliant Classics, Brilliant Classics, Brilliant Classics, Brilliant Classics
Pennisi*, Procaccini*, Rota*, Clementi*, Donatoni*, Sollima* - Trio Clementi
Contemporary Italian Trios With Clarinet And Cello
2022, CD, Album, Da Vinci Classics, 
,
, Modern/Contemporary
Quatuor Saguenay, Félix Mendelssohn*, Maurice Ravel, Giovanni Sollima
Mendelssohn, Ravel, Sollima
2022, CD, Album, Atma Classique
Sollima*, Kodály*, Pejtsik*, Ligeti*, Buritch*, Christoph Croisé
The Solo Album
2021, CD, Album, Avie Records
Elgar*, Giovanni Sollima, Orchestra Filarmonica Della Calabria, Filippo Arlia
Cello Concerto; Enigma Variations
2021, CD, Album, Brilliant Classics
Sibelius* / Vasks* / Debussy* / Ravel* / Sollima* / Penderecki* / Nisinman* / Piazzolla* - Daniel Rowland (2), Maja Bogdanović
Pas De Deux
2020, CD, sli, Challenge Classics, ,
, Modern/Contemporary/Impressionist
Chiara Zanisi, Giovanni Sollima
The Lady From The Sea / Duos For Violin And Cello From Vivaldi To Sollima
2020, CD, Album, Arcana (4)
Franco Margola, Ottorino Respighi, Jacopo Francini, Orchestra Della "Fondazione Teatro Verdi" Di Trieste, Paolo Longo (3), Alessandro Deljavan, Giovanni Sollima
Opere Per Violoncello = Cello Works
2020, CD, Album, Tactus
Albéniz*, Brey*, De Ziah*, Diezig*, Piazzolla*, Prokofiev*, Rostropovich*, Rózsa*, Sollima*, Taguell*, Tcherepnine*, Luciano Tarantino
Cello Solo Journey
2019, CD, Album, Brilliant Classics, ,
, Modern/Contemporary
Giovanni Sollima
Natural Songbook
2019, LP, Album, 180, Warner Music Italy
Giovanni Sollima - Enrico Melozzi
100 Cellos Live
2018, CD, Album, Liv, Decca
Giovanni Sollima, Alkemia Quartet
4 Strings
2018, CD, Album, Dynamic (4), 
,
, Contemporary
Schubert*, Quartetto Bernini, Giovanni Sollima
Quartetto Per Archi In Do Maggiore D 956 - Gretchen Am Spinnrade D 118 (Parafrasi)
2017, CD, Album, Amadeus
Giovanni Sollima, Orchestra Notturna Clandestina Conducted By Enrico Melozzi
A Clandestine Night In Rome
2017, CD, Album, Decca,
Giovanni Battista Costanzi, Giovanni Sollima, Monika Leskovar, Arianna Art Ensemble
Sinfonie Per Violoncello
2017, CD, Glossa, ,
, Baroque/Classical
Alessio Pisani, Carlo Galante, Giovanni Sollima, Massimo Coco, Raffaele Cecconi, Willy Hess
The Bogeyman
2017, CD, Album, Bongiovanni
Giovanni Sollima, Naiupoche*
Sonate Di Terra E Di Mare
2016, CD, Album, Almendra Music
Giovanni Sollima
Onyricon
2015, CD, Album, Deca Records
Offenbach*, Andrea Noferini, Giovanni Sollima
Cello Duets
2014, 2xCD, Album, Brilliant Classics
Giovanni Sollima, Nicola Fiorenza, I Turchini*, Antonio Florio, Giuseppe de Majo, Nicola Fiorenza, Leonardo Leo
Neapolitan Cello Concertos
2012, CD, Album, Glossa
Giovanni Sollima
Caravaggio
2012, CD, Album, EGEA Music
100 Cellos, Giovanni Sollima, Monika Leskovar, Enrico Dindo, Enrico Melozzi, Sarah Jane Morris, Marco Mengoni, Elsa Lila, Jacopo Di Tonno, Andrea Agostinelli, Silvia Chiesa, Paolo Damiani
Live at Teatro Valle Occupato
2012, CD, Cinik Records,
Li-Wei - Ligeti*, Hindemith*, Crumb*, Ho*, Vasks*, Sollima*
Alone: Works For Solo Cello
2009, CD, Album, Cello Classics, 
,
, Contemporary/Modern
Giovanni Sollima Featuring Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Monika Leskovar, Patti Smith
We Were Trees
2008, CD, Album, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, ,
, Contemporary
Giovanni Sollima / Alessandro Gandola
Astrolabioanima
2008
Mario Brunello, Giovanni Sollima, Giacinto Scelsi, Peter Sculthorpe
Solo Cello And...
2007, CD, Album, Victor
Giovanni Sollima
Works
2005, CD, Album, Sony Music, Sony Music
Mario Brunello - Giovanni Sollima, György Ligeti, Gaspar Cassadó, Luigi Dallapiccola, Eugène Ysaÿe
Alone
2002, XRCD, Album, RM, JVC
Giovanni Sollima
Canti Rocciosi
2002
Marco Betta (2), Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Carlo Galante, Carlo Pedini, Giovanni Sollima, Giampaolo Testoni, Marco Tutino, Paolo Ugoletti
Missa Solemnis Resurrectionis - Octacorda
2000, 2xCD, Album, Le Vele
Ferrero*, Sciarrino*, Sollima*, Corghi*, Donatoni*, Einaudi*
Compositori Italiani D'Oggi
2000, CD, Comp, Fabbri Classica, Naxos
Giovanni Sollima, The Lark Quartet
Viaggio In Italia (A Journey In Italy)
2000, CD, Album, Agorá
Giovanni Sollima
Aquilarco, Live In New York
1998, CD, Album, EGEA
Giovanni Sollima
Aquilarco
1998
Giovanni Sollima
Spasimo
1996
Haydn*, Sollima*, Janáček*, Doric String Quartet, Quiroga String Quartet, Bennewitz Quartet
8th International String Quartet Competition "Premio Paolo Borciani": The Laureates Concert
CD, Comp, Not On Label
B For Bang
Across The Universe Of Languages
2007, CD, Album, KML Recordings, ,
, Pop Rock/Modern Classical/Avantgarde/Art Rock/Experimental/Classic Rock
APPEARANCES +
The Italian Consort
Ex Tempore - Musica Per Consort Di Dulciane Dal Rinascimento Al Contemporaneo
2024, CD, Tactus
Marco Graziani & Stjepan Hauser
Strictly Live
2024
Gautier Capuçon
Classical Session: Gautier Capuçon & Capucelli
2023, File, AAC, FLAC, EP, Dol, Parlophone Records Ltd.
Rune Hitsumoto, Kaoruko Igarashi
Le Grand Tango
2023, ,
, Modern/Contemporary
Anastasia Kobekina, Vincent Boccadoro, Emmanuel Arakélian, Thibault Cauvin, Tristan Pereira
Ellipses
2022, CD + CD, Mirare, ,
, Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Impressionist/Contemporary
Leila Shirvani & Orchestra Notturna Clandestina
Cello-Konzerte
2022, CD, Album, Antes Edition, 
,
, Classical/Romantic/Modern
Eliodoro Sollima, Ensemble Kinari
Chamber Music
2021, CD, Album, Brilliant Classics
Francesca Guccione
Muqataea
2021
Vivaldi*, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico
What's Next Vivaldi?
2020, CD, Album, Alpha Classics, ,
, Baroque/Contemporary
Nicola Segatta
Ikone
2020, CD, Album, Dig, Squilibri Edizioni, Jump Cut, Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Quadrivium Edizioni Discografiche
Avi Avital
Art Of The Mandolin
2020, CD, Album, Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Grammophon, ,
, Baroque/Classical/Modern/Contemporary
Christian-Pierre La Marca
Cello 360
2020, CD, Album, Naïve
Emanuele Segre, Carlo Boccadoro, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
Italian Guitar Concertos
2020, CD, Album, Delos
Gidon Kremer
Searching For Ludwig
2020, CD, Album, Alpha Classics, ,
, Modern/Contemporary/Romantic
Nicola Segatta
Concerto Bizantino
2020
Maya Fridman
Reið
2019, 
,
, Contemporary
Chiara Zanisi, Stefano Barneschi
Suite Case (Violin Duos From Vivaldi To Sollima)
2018, CD, Album, Arcana (4), ,
, Baroque/Modern/Contemporary/Classical
Various
Bespoke Classics: New Classics For Cool Dads
2018, 2xCD, Comp, ABC Classics, 
ApuliaCelloSoloists*
ApuliaCelloSoloists
2018, CD, Album, Digressione Music
Quartet San Francisco
A QSF Journey
2018, HDCD, Reference Recordings
Gautier Capuçon
Intuition
2018
Umberto Clerici
Suite Cubed: Bach And Beyond
2017, CD, Album, ABC Classics
Sara Calvanelli
Onironautiche
2017, CD, Album, Amadeus Arte
Mimmo Malandra
Novosax : Great Composers For Mimmo
2017, CD, Album, Sterling (2), 
Sentieri Selvaggi
Le Sette Stelle
2017, CD, Album, Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Jee-Hyung Moon
Cello Solo Pieces Of The 20th Century
2017
Nicola Segatta
Shakespeare For Dreamers
2016, CD, Album, Boo, Squilibri
duoJalal
Shadow & Light (The Rumi Experience)
2016, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
Paola Furetta
Cello Style
2016, CD, Album, Bongiovanni
James Horner
Pas de Deux
2015, CD, 
,
, Contemporary
Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott
Songs From The Arc Of Life
2015
Cellophony
Vibrez
2014, CD, Album, Edition Records, ,
, Classical
Various
L'antologia 300
2014, 2xCD, Comp, Amadeus, ,
, Medieval/Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern
Alessandro Carbonare - Tetraktis Percussioni
Invenzioni
2013, CD, Album, Decca
Guitalian Quartet
Contemporary Italian Music For Guitar Quartet
2013, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
Various
1861-2011 Italia 150 - Dal Passato Al Futuro: Riletture E Trascrizioni Dei Canti Della Patria
2011, CD, Album, Amadeus, ,
, Folk/Classical
Tosca (4), Corpo Bandistico Albiano, Marco Somadossi
Trentino Senza Tempo
2010, CD, Album, Amadeus
Out Of Time Percussion Quartet
Out Of Time Percussion Quartet
2010, CD, Album, Electromantic Music, Insinergia
Tetraktis Percussioni
Millenium Bug
2009, CD, Album, PH MusicWorX
Jacques Offenbach
Duetti Per Violoncello Op. 54
2009, CD, Album, Amadeus
Mario Brunello
Violoncello And
2009, CD, Album, EGEA
DJ Ralf* - Tetraktis Percussioni
Piazzarama
2009, CD, Album, Giotto Music, ,
, Acid Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Tribal/Avant-garde Jazz
David Geringas, Natalia Gutman, Lynn Harrell, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Miklós Perényi, Kremerata Baltica, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks*
Celebrating Slava! - In Remembrance Of Mstislav Rostropovich
2008, 4xCD, Album, Profil Edition Günter Hänssler, Kronberg Academy
Patti Smith
Twelve
2007, CD Digipak, ,
, Alternative Rock
Morgan
Da A Ad A
2007
Bruno Canino
Clash
2005, CD, Atopos
Cellissimo
Classical Music Played On 4 Cellos
2004, CD, Album, Humanitas Multimedia
Various
Asiago Festival 2004
2004, 2xCD, Not On Label
Mario Marzi, Paolo Zannini
L'Arte Del Funambolo (New Italian Music For Saxophone & Piano)
2003, CD, Album, Stradivarius
Mario Marzi, Paolo Zannini
Saxophone Colours (Italian & French Music For Saxophone And Piano)
2003, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Stradivarius
Gidon Kremer Plays Astor Piazzolla
Tracing Astor
2001
Marco Tutino
Operas
2000, CD, Aura Music
Sentieri Selvaggi
La Formula Del Fiore
1999, CD, Sensible Records (3)
Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Nicola Porpora, Francesco Durante, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Eivind Aadland
Concertos For The Kingdom Of The Two Sicilies
1999, ,
, Baroque
Mario Brunello, Orchestra D'Archi Italiana
"Violoncelles, Vibrez!"
1997, CD, Album, Agorá
Carlo Galante
Yeliel
1995, CD, Scatola Sonora,
Quartetto Brunelleschi
Phantasy
1995, CD, Tirreno
Various
The Instruments Of The Orchestra: Woodwind
1992, CD, Comp, IMP Classics, 
Quartetto Mercadante
Quartetto Mercadante
1984, LP, Album, P.B.I.S.
Alberto Mesirca
Free Guitar On Earth (Contemporary Italian Music For Guitar)
2020, CD, Album, Da Vinci Classics
Various
Metasync
2017, 30xFile, WAV, Minus Habens Records, ,
, Ambient/EBM/Experimental/Electro/Industrial/Breaks/IDM/Trip Hop
Various
International Music Academy In The Principality Of Liechtenstein Vol. 1
2014, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Comp, Ars Produktion
Art Zoyd Studio*, Musiques Nouvelles Ensemble*
Expériences De Vol
2002, 3xCD, Album, Sub Rosa, Sub Rosa, In-Possible Records, 
,
, Experimental/Contemporary
Monika Leskovar, Ivana Švarc-Grenda*
Alone
2000, CD, Album, Tutico Classic
Giuseppe Cataldo*
Sincronie
1988, LP, Album, C.R. Records, ,
, Contemporary
Patti Smith
Twelve