Christian Bellisario arranger

It’s not easy to draw a picture of such an eclectic person as Christian Bellisario. He simply doesn’t fit any possible definition and most probably wouldn’t like to be defined. He’s an artist, and more precisely a musician: at least that’s what he wanted to be and wishes, day by day, to realize. He’s traveled the world following the greatest cellists of the 20th century, such as Paul Tortelier. Mstislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker, Anner Bylsma and other extraordinary musicians, like Jordi Savall, violinists Tibor Varga and Giuseppe Gaccetta; or such as Carlo Maria Giulini, who has often welcomed him into his Milan home behind the Teatro alla Scala. These days, students from all corners of the world meet in his cello classes in Milan. They come from Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Czech Republic, Croatia, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Australia, the United States, Iran and Italy. He’s also a highly prized orchestra conductor and a requested historical consultant in the world of classical artistic stringed instrument making. An untiring researcher, he published for the first time, in urtext editions, pieces such as “The Marchenbilder”, op. 113 of Robert Schumann (Piatti/Bellisario) and the “Capricci” for solo cello of Giuseppe Dall’Abaco (The White Prince Edition) or the Sonate for solo cello op.228 of Eugene Ysaye (G. Henle Verlag), which entered immediately into the “corpus” of the principal cello repertoire and today are performed and recorded by major interpreters.