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Andrea Massimo Grassi playing the clarinet at the music stand, against a dark background

Andrea
Massimo
Grassi

Clarinettist, scholar of the musical text, teacher at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

Photo: Silvia Rasulo

A passion for passing on musical knowledge is the common thread linking Andrea Massimo Grassi’s work as a performer, researcher and teacher.

Recent engagements

Concerts, lecture-recitals, masterclasses and lessons.

  • Roma, Accademia Nazionale di Danza, Dottorato in Discipline performative (XL ciclo)

    Danzare su Bach, Schubert e Brahms: come la musica può ispirare una coreografia

    Lecture-recital

  • Gallarate (VA), Conservatorio ‘Puccini’

    Come la conoscenza dei manoscritti può indirizzare l’interpretazione musicale

    Seminar and chamber music workshop

  • Novara, Conservatorio ‘Cantelli’, Festival di Musica da camera

    Come la conoscenza dei manoscritti può indirizzare l’interpretazione musicale

    Seminar and masterclass

  • Brescia, Conservatorio ‘Marenzio’, Dottorato in Discipline performative (XL ciclo)

    Come la conoscenza dei manoscritti può indirizzare l’interpretazione musicale

    Lecture-recital

  • Messina, Conservatorio ‘A. Corelli’

    Laboratorio di interpretazione musicale sulla musica da camera di Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann e Brahms

    Seminars and masterclasses

  • Cetraro (CS), 2° Campus Internazionale sulla Pratica e Ricerca Artistica Musicale

    Come la conoscenza degli autografi può indirizzare l’interpretazione musicale: il caso delle Sonate op. 120 di Brahms

    Lecture-recital

All concerts

Two works

Ten years on the sources of Brahms’s clarinet works, in an edition and a book.

Research and publications

‘Fräulein Klarinette’

La genesi e il testo delle opere per clarinetto di Johannes Brahms (The genesis and text of Johannes Brahms’s clarinet works)

Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2006

Live

All videos

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J. Brahms, Clarinet Quintet op. 115 — I. Allegro (excerpt)

Andrea Massimo Grassi, clarinet; Ulrike-Anima Mathé, Kjell Arne Jörgensen, violins; Karin Wolf, viola; Michael Flaksman, cello
Live recording
Image: Teatro alla Scala, 2023. Photo: Andrea Cipolla

From the press

«Il clarinettista, in abito di scena, si lascia risucchiare dal suono del suo strumento, lo segue con tutto il corpo, con grande concentrazione emotiva. Il candore con cui ammette di amare il Trio op. 114 è tutto sul suo viso … al cospetto della musica che risuona nitida e perfetta, tutto si ridimensiona e si relativizza»

Avvenire, 3 March 1993

Press reviews

Beyond music

Two stories written by Andrea Massimo Grassi, and the photographs that go with them. They are not about music, yet they always end up there: at sixteen, on a glacier, his fear was that he would never play again; later, as a cavalry officer, he spent his first pay on records.

Mountains

Quel cielo stellato

September 1977. Aged sixteen, with his cousin Stefano, a forced bivouac above 4,000 metres on the Lys glacier, in the Monte Rosa massif, with no tent and no sleeping bag. The longest night, the starriest sky, and the fear of losing his hands.

Roots

Albis ardua

1988–89. Military service as a cavalry second lieutenant with the Lancieri di Novara in Codroipo, his father’s sabre under his arm. A year told with irony, which turns into a journey through the family’s history — his grandfathers in the First World War, his father an Alpine artillery officer in the Second — and ends with a motto for life.

Contact

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