Born in Genoa Giulio Plotino began to study the violin with Joseph Levin. After earning a degree at the conservatory of his city, he graduated from the Hogeschool voor de kusten in Utrecht in the class of Philipp Hirschhorn. He then furthered his studies under the guidance of Salvatore Accardo, Boris Belkin, Thomas Zeethmair and members of the Quartetto Italiano, Amadeus Quartet and Alban Berg Quartet.
An award winner at Genoa's “Premio Paganini” Competition, he won the “Premio Città di Vittorio Veneto” Competition.
For 15 years he was Concertmaster in orchestras such as, among the others, the London Phiharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, playing under the baton of Lorin Mazel, George Pretre, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, John Elliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding, Myun Wung Chung, Vladimir Jurowsky, Neville, Marriner, Dimitri Kitajenko etc...
In 2018 he recorded for Dynamic a production dedicated to Paganini and his instruments, the violin, the guitar and the cello belonged to Paganini playing with Clemens Hagen and Matteo Mela. Cit.The Strad: “Most of us would think long before attempting the solo Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento even on a modern set-up, so hats off to Giulio Plotino who negotiates even the most fiendish intricacies on Paganini's del Gesù with rare aplomb”
With Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra he went on a long North America tour that reaped great success with audiences and critics played on period instruments. On the early music scene, he also collaborated with Ottavio Dantone, performing J.S.Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto.
Beetwen 2017/18 he debuted on the podium conducting Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia and a symphony concert at the Teatro lirico di Sassari and as soloist/conductor with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo.
He performed at Lehamn Centre in New York, Citè de la Musique and Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Styriarte Festspiele Graz, Centro Cultural de Belém of Lisboa, Melbourne Recital Centre, Yon Siew Toh Hall of Singapore, Teatro Major di Bogotà, Perth Concert Hall, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Unione Musicale di Torino, Istituzione dei concerti La Sapienza di Roma, GOG di Genova, Società del Quartetto di Vicenza and Amici della Musica di Firenze, Padova, Perugia, Palermo etc....
Soon to be released by Brilliant Classic, he has recorded Tartini's Concertos on baroque violin with L'Accademia della Rosa, an orchestra which himself founded, playing on period instruments.
His performance of the Britten violin concerto, under the baton of Simone Young conducting the West australian Symphony Orchestra, was recorded by ABC Classsic.
Plotino has mover always cultivated contemporary music, collaboratng with composers such as L. Berio, F. Vacchi, S. Bussotti, S. Sciarrino and G. Benjamin. He recorded the Luciano Berio's Sequenza VIII for Dynamic which has received favourable reviews from international critics.
He has been a jury member in international competitions such as the Premio Paganini and Rodolfo Lipizer.
He teaches at the Conservatory of Genoa and was Visiting Professor at the University of Western Australia and Yon Sie Toh Conservatory of Music of Singapore. Since 2015 he has been Artistic Director of the Campus Musicale Lunigiana.
An award winner at Genoa's “Premio Paganini” Competition, he won the “Premio Città di Vittorio Veneto” Competition.
For 15 years he was Concertmaster in orchestras such as, among the others, the London Phiharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, playing under the baton of Lorin Mazel, George Pretre, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, John Elliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding, Myun Wung Chung, Vladimir Jurowsky, Neville, Marriner, Dimitri Kitajenko etc...
In 2018 he recorded for Dynamic a production dedicated to Paganini and his instruments, the violin, the guitar and the cello belonged to Paganini playing with Clemens Hagen and Matteo Mela. Cit.The Strad: “Most of us would think long before attempting the solo Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento even on a modern set-up, so hats off to Giulio Plotino who negotiates even the most fiendish intricacies on Paganini's del Gesù with rare aplomb”
With Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra he went on a long North America tour that reaped great success with audiences and critics played on period instruments. On the early music scene, he also collaborated with Ottavio Dantone, performing J.S.Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto.
Beetwen 2017/18 he debuted on the podium conducting Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia and a symphony concert at the Teatro lirico di Sassari and as soloist/conductor with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo.
He performed at Lehamn Centre in New York, Citè de la Musique and Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Styriarte Festspiele Graz, Centro Cultural de Belém of Lisboa, Melbourne Recital Centre, Yon Siew Toh Hall of Singapore, Teatro Major di Bogotà, Perth Concert Hall, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Unione Musicale di Torino, Istituzione dei concerti La Sapienza di Roma, GOG di Genova, Società del Quartetto di Vicenza and Amici della Musica di Firenze, Padova, Perugia, Palermo etc....
Soon to be released by Brilliant Classic, he has recorded Tartini's Concertos on baroque violin with L'Accademia della Rosa, an orchestra which himself founded, playing on period instruments.
His performance of the Britten violin concerto, under the baton of Simone Young conducting the West australian Symphony Orchestra, was recorded by ABC Classsic.
Plotino has mover always cultivated contemporary music, collaboratng with composers such as L. Berio, F. Vacchi, S. Bussotti, S. Sciarrino and G. Benjamin. He recorded the Luciano Berio's Sequenza VIII for Dynamic which has received favourable reviews from international critics.
He has been a jury member in international competitions such as the Premio Paganini and Rodolfo Lipizer.
He teaches at the Conservatory of Genoa and was Visiting Professor at the University of Western Australia and Yon Sie Toh Conservatory of Music of Singapore. Since 2015 he has been Artistic Director of the Campus Musicale Lunigiana.
