DuoProQuo
Violin and Cello Duo
DuoProQuo is a violin and cello duo whose members bring to stage over 15 years of professional experience in performing and teaching together. The repertoire spans from baroque to contemporary, including new commissions with a folkloric flare, theatre plays, children shows and new classical music. |
DuoProQuo gets his name from "Quid pro quo", a latin expression which translates as "This in place of that".
It can relate to trading something for something else, as well as to mistaking something for something different.
As mistakes often offer occasions to learn, things that seem to go wrong, turn sometimes into new chances.
Duo Pro Quo is something different from a simple string duo: it's a new chance.
It also a reminder of finding in yourself what you really need, without looking for external approval and truly believe in what matters.
It can relate to trading something for something else, as well as to mistaking something for something different.
As mistakes often offer occasions to learn, things that seem to go wrong, turn sometimes into new chances.
Duo Pro Quo is something different from a simple string duo: it's a new chance.
It also a reminder of finding in yourself what you really need, without looking for external approval and truly believe in what matters.
The DuoProQuo Musicians
Mattia Berrini, violin
Mattia's love for chamber music sparked when he attended, as a shy 8 years old boy, live concerts in his home town of Milan (Italy). He became a student of Fulvio Luciani, who further fostered his passion for the art of "suonar insieme" and for the violin as a medium for connecting and engaging with people.
Ever since, Mattia could never let go of that 4 -stringed piece of wood: he has worked as a freelance for several orchestras in Europe and in Canada (United Europe Chamber Orchestra, Victoria Symphony and the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières, to name a few).
He has been a member of the Vaughan String Quartet for over a decade (and counting), with whom he toured extensively, blending his music with the noise of big cities as Toronto, Calgary and New York, and violating the silence of remote places such as the Northwest Territories and Vancouver Island.
Mattia has been artist in residence at The Banff Centre and attended twice the St.Lawrence String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University. In 2021 he obtained his Doctorate in Music Performance in Montreal, under the guidance of Claude Richard. As a result of a happy incident occurred at the University of Alberta, he is also a cell biologist.
Mattia's love for chamber music sparked when he attended, as a shy 8 years old boy, live concerts in his home town of Milan (Italy). He became a student of Fulvio Luciani, who further fostered his passion for the art of "suonar insieme" and for the violin as a medium for connecting and engaging with people.
Ever since, Mattia could never let go of that 4 -stringed piece of wood: he has worked as a freelance for several orchestras in Europe and in Canada (United Europe Chamber Orchestra, Victoria Symphony and the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières, to name a few).
He has been a member of the Vaughan String Quartet for over a decade (and counting), with whom he toured extensively, blending his music with the noise of big cities as Toronto, Calgary and New York, and violating the silence of remote places such as the Northwest Territories and Vancouver Island.
Mattia has been artist in residence at The Banff Centre and attended twice the St.Lawrence String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University. In 2021 he obtained his Doctorate in Music Performance in Montreal, under the guidance of Claude Richard. As a result of a happy incident occurred at the University of Alberta, he is also a cell biologist.
Silvia Buttiglione, cello
When the horoscope page of a magazine for kids predicted that Silvia was supposed to become a musician and live outside Italy, the information was rapidly dismissed: piano lessons at 6 seemed endless moments of boredom and the foreign language classes were not any better.
But after listening the prelude from the first Bach cello suite, Silvia fell in love with this instrument and loved learning, playing and teaching it.
After graduating at the Conservatory of Genova with the energetic and legendary Maestro Nevio Zanardi, she lived in Milano playing in several orchestras and touring Europe, until she moved to Canada in 2012 to start a new adventure.
Since then she has worked as passionate chamber musician and music teacher, promising to herself that music will never be boring for the people around her.
When the horoscope page of a magazine for kids predicted that Silvia was supposed to become a musician and live outside Italy, the information was rapidly dismissed: piano lessons at 6 seemed endless moments of boredom and the foreign language classes were not any better.
But after listening the prelude from the first Bach cello suite, Silvia fell in love with this instrument and loved learning, playing and teaching it.
After graduating at the Conservatory of Genova with the energetic and legendary Maestro Nevio Zanardi, she lived in Milano playing in several orchestras and touring Europe, until she moved to Canada in 2012 to start a new adventure.
Since then she has worked as passionate chamber musician and music teacher, promising to herself that music will never be boring for the people around her.