Born in Italy in 2001, Lucilla Rose Mariotti is a violinist renowned for her charisma and her warm, creamy tone. From an early age, she has performed as a soloist with esteemed orchestras worldwide. Most recently, she toured Australia with Vivaldi Gala Night – Journey to Italy, a concert series organized by the Italian Consulates, with performances at Winthrop Hall in Perth, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane, and the Sydney Opera House. In 2023, Lucilla represented Italy at the European Festival of Soloists in Venezuela, performing with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar under Maestro Rodolfo Saglimbeni. This event was organized by the European Union Delegation in Venezuela and El Sistema. That same year, she performed as a soloist with the RCM Chamber Orchestra during a live-streamed orchestral masterclass led by Maxim Vengerov. She later joined Vengerov to perform Navarra by Sarasate at his 40-year stage career celebration with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2022, she captivated audiences as a soloist with the New English Concert Orchestra at the Battle Proms Concerts, held at iconic UK venues such as Blenheim Palace, Burghley House, Hatfield House, and Highclere Castle. In 2021, she brought to life Thomas Linley Jr.'s Violin Concerto in F Major in its Italian premiere. Lucilla has also performed with numerous other orchestras, including the Kensington Philharmonic Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, the Haydn Chamber Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, the Harlow Symphony Orchestra, the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Francigena Chamber Orchestra, the Nuove Assonanze Orchestra, the Strings of Maderna Orchestra, the Note Future Chamber Orchestra, the Florence Symphonietta, and the Orchestra Classica di Alessandria.
As a recitalist, she has performed at various prestigious festivals and venues, including Wigmore Hall, Sale Apollinee of La Fenice Theatre in Venice and the Pitti Palace in Florence thanks to Musica con le Ali, the Lerici Music Festival, the Bloomsbury Festival, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Giardini La Mortella in Ischia (supported by the William Walton Foundation), Villa Lante in Rome (with Musicaimmagine and Institutum Romanum Finlandiae), and the Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest as a prizewinner of the Campus delle Arti 2017 Prize. Other notable performances include the Brera Museum in Milan during EXPO 2015, the Piaggio Foundation Museum, and the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, where she performed as a prizewinner at the New York International Artists Competition. She also performed at the Royal Palace of Gödöllő in Hungary, premiering works by Alfredo D’Ambrosio, recorded live on a DVD by Achord Pictures. Her performances have been broadcast on Vatican Radio, Czech Radio, and Venice Classic Radio. Lucilla Rose is also passionate about chamber music. In 2023, she was awarded a scholarship to participate in the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in Cornwall, where she collaborated with esteemed musicians from around the world. During the Amadeus Festival in Vienna, she also took part in the Janoska Ensemble Workshops, exploring innovative approaches to ensemble performance. She has performed with various chamber music ensembles, with a notable highlight being her 2024 role as the lead violinist in Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht at Wigmore Hall in London.
Lucilla Rose is the winner of numerous awards. In 2024, Lucilla Rose received the Daniele Gay Award, established by violinist Francesca Dego in collaboration with the Musica con le Ali Association and supported by the Musica al Tempio Association. Among her other achievements, she won the Absolute First Prize at the 59th Kocian International Violin Competition in Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic, the Josef Muzika International Violin Competition in Nová Paka, receiving the prize for the best performance of the contemporary Czech piece "Dža More" by Silvia Bodorova, and the ESO 32nd Young Soloist Competition in Eastbourne, where she also received the St Cecilia Bequest Award for the best performance by a musician under 18. In 2019, she was awarded the Maura Giorgetti scholarship by winning the Young Musicians Competition organized by the Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala.
Lucilla Rose is currently studying in the Solo Class at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover under Prof. Krzysztof Węgrzyn. Previously, she completed an Artist Diploma under Prof. Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London, supported by a full scholarship as a Carne Trust Junior Fellow for 2023/24. She also earned a Master’s in Performance with distinction from RCM, supported by the Anne & Brian Wadsworth Scholarship, the Help Musicians’ Ian Fleming Award, and the Albert Cooper Music Charitable Trust. She was named a 2023 Boise Scholar. Additionally, she studied with Salvatore Accardo at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona. In 2020, she graduated summa cum laude with a special mention from the State Music Conservatory Bruno Maderna in Cesena, Italy, having studied privately with Marco Fornaciari since the age of 8. She participated in the 2024 Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse in Altea, Spain, on a full scholarship.
Lucilla Rose performs on a 1709 Antonio Stradivari violin from the Goh Family Collection, which was awarded to her on a two-year loan after she won both the Absolute First Prize and the Audience Award at the Violins & Soul Salon Music Violin Competition during the AMADEUS Festival in Vienna in 2023.