Paolo Bonomini, winner of the first prize at the 20th International J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig, has an active international career as a chamber musician, soloist and teacher. Since his debut at the age of 15, Paolo Bonomini has given recitals throughout Europe, South America and Australia and has performed as a soloist with, among others, the Camerata Salzburg, the Camerata Berlin and the Camerata Salzburg. His first CD “Violoncello Italiano”, released by Genuin Classics, received excellent reviews and was voted “CD of the month” by Fono Forum, a leading German music magazine. Paolo Bonomini is a founding member of the “Trio Boccherini”, a string trio with whom he has recorded all the Beethoven trios for Genuin Classics and a CD of Hungarian music for string trio for the BIS label. He has performed in prestigious concert halls and series such as the Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Bach Archive in Leipzig, the Enescu Festival and the Engadin Festival, alongside Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna and Franco Petracchi and with Giovanni Sollima as part of the “Tenebrae, il principe dei musici” project in some of Italy's most important theaters. He works as a guest soloist with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionaledi Santa Cecilia and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In the same position he has worked with the Deutsches Symphonie-OrchesterBerlin, the Münchener Kammerorchester, the Camerata Bern and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. He has played with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Claudio Abbado, MarissJansons, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Elliot Gardiner and HerbertBlomstedt.He was professor of cello ad interim at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, holds master classes at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesoleand was assistant to Jens Peter Maintz at the UdK Berlin and to Antonio Meneses at the HKB Bern. He has given master classes at various Spanish and Italian conservatories, such as the Real Conservatoriode Música de Madrid, the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and the conservatories of Trento and Bari. Paolo Bonomini, who has always been interested in philological research, is the editor of the critical edition of the “Six Sonatas for Two Cellos” by Tommaso Giordani, published by Armelin Musica.Antonio Meneses, Jens Peter Maintz, Rainer Schmidt and Mario Brunello are among the musicians who have inspired him the most.