Matteo Cimatti is a prize-winning Italian violinist who has been praised for his “refined playing and melodious and intense tone” (ANSA). Based between London and Switzerland, he has appeared alongside several European orchestras and at numerous festivals, and is also an accomplished and enthusiastic chamber player. In May 2025, he was selected as one of the winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Final Auditions.

Upcoming highlights include his debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Frühling, a return to Wigmore Hall and the Brahms concerto with the London Firebird Orchestra.

In 2024, Matteo graduated from the Haute École Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, where he most recently studied with Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He has appeared as a soloist alongside several orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and has performed in numerous festivals and concert seasons such as the Sion Festival, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Festival dei Due Mondi, Musikdorf Ernen and the Ticino Music Festival among others.

Matteo has recently won awards from the Rahn Kulturfonds and the Concours d’Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne. He was a prize winner in numerous competitions, most notably the Concours Feast of Duos International Competition, the Premio Postacchini International Violin Competition and the Premio Crescendo Competition.

A chamber music enthusiast from a very young age, Matteo enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player. He is a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel.

Matteo Cimatti plays a 1769 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor.