Salvatore Greco is an Italian violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist, leader of the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo

Teatro Massimo

The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II....

, Palermo since 1991.

Biography

He studied in London

London

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 with Eugene Sarbu (1984), with Paolo Borciani (1985), and for some years in the U.S. at the Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

, Bloomington, with Franco Gulli, Yuval Yaron and Rostislav Dubinsky.

Now is regarded as one of the most gifted and refined Italian performers.

Solo career

His active solo career included engagements throughout the United States and Europe and participation at international Festivals: Tanglewood, Freiburg, Taormina, etc. He won a number of violin competitions and has recorded for the RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

 and the Bloomington Radio Station.

Instruments

Formerly in the collection of Maestro Greco were a Marino Capicchioni

Marino Capicchioni

Marino Capicchioni was an Italian musical instrument maker- Biography :...

 violin and a good Giuseppe Fiorini

Giuseppe Fiorini

Giuseppe Fiorini was an Italian musical instrument maker.- Biography :Fiorini was born at Bazzano, Emilia-Romagna, the son and pupil of Raffaele :it:Fiorini Raffaele. Having inherited his parents' cultivated propensities in arts and sciences, he built his first instrument at the age of 16...

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At present he owns an old classical Neapolitan and a fine Roberto Regazzi

Roberto Regazzi

Roberto Regazzi is a notable contemporary violin maker and scholar who received his initiation in the craft from Otello Bignami...

, dated 1996, which mostly loves and plays.