Tommaso Lonquich

Clarinet

 

Acclaimed by critics as a “formidable clarinetist” and praised for “his sumptuous tone, consistent mastery and passion, and dazzling virtuosity,” Tommaso Lonquich is the principal clarinetist of the Ensemble MidtVest, an innovative chamber group based in Denmark. He is also a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, with whom he performs regularly in the United States and on tour.

He participates in festivals across the United States (Music@Menlo, Bridgehampton, Brevard Music Festival), Europe (Lockenhaus, Oxford, Mecklenburg, Montepulciano, Santander, Dino Ciani, Cervo), South America (Rio Chamber Music Week), and Asia (Pacific Music Festival), collaborating with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Nicolas Altstaedt, Carolin Widmann, Pekka Kuusisto, Enrico Bronzi, Umberto Clerici, Sergio Azzolini, Danusha Waskiewicz, Alexander Lonquich, Radovan Vlatkovic, Jeffrey Swann, Klaus Thunemann, and the Vertavo, Noûs, Zaïde, and Indaco Quartets.

Tommaso Lonquich has performed in some of the world’s most important concert halls, including Carnegie and Alice Tully Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Gran Liceu (Barcelona), Salle Pleyel and the Louvre (Paris), Sala Verdi (Milan), Teatro alla Pergola (Florence), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), the Quirinal Chapel (Rome), and Suntory Hall (Tokyo). In Italy, he has appeared for organizations such as the Amici della Musica di Firenze, the IUC–Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome, the Unione Musicale di Torino, the Serate Musicali di Milano, Musikamera in Venice, the Sagra Musicale Umbra, and MiTo Settembre Musica.

He is featured in numerous radio and television broadcasts and has made about twenty recordings, nominated for awards such as the Gramophone Award and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Among the most recent are the 2021 CD Moonwalk, a duo with pianist Alexander Lonquich featuring works by Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Busoni, and Reger, and a 2023 CD for Amadeus magazine, featuring Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Canova Chamber Orchestra conducted by Enrico Pagano.

He is co-founder and co-artistic director of the Schackenborg Musikfest, a prestigious festival held at the royal castle of the same name on the border between Denmark and Germany. He is also co-artistic director of KantorAtelier, a cultural association in Florence presenting events and workshops dedicated to music, psychoanalysis, art, and theater. He continuously researches improvisation and its interaction with theater, which has led him to collaborate with artists such as Peppe Servillo, Dan Colen, and the Odin Teater.

He has taught masterclasses at institutions including the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, the Royal Danish Academy, the University of New York, and the Royal Welsh College of Music. At KantorAtelier, he conceived and curated the chamber music curriculum for the educational project “Dædalus – The Young Artist.”

He appears as a soloist and principal clarinet with orchestras such as the Haydn Philharmonie, the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, the Leonore Orchestra, the Slovenian Radio and Television Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, collaborating with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Fabio Luisi, Daniele Giorgi, Giovanni Antonini, Peter Eötvös, Enrico Onofri, Enrico Pagano, and Leonard Slatkin.

Alongside his artistic career, he practices as a psychoanalyst in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is co-founder of the International Center for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (ICLP).

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www.lonquich.com

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He plays in the following projects:

#LMF25: Pane, Amore e Fantasia - 18 settembre 2025​

#LMF25: La Fine del Tempo - 19 settembre 2025