Trio David
Trio David was formed in 2020 out of the dedication of three young musicians to chamber music research and their desire to discover and explore an original repertoire such as that for string trio.
The Trio has performed in major Italian concert seasons, including those organised by the William Walton Foundation, the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, the Festival delle Nazioni, the Filarmonica Umbra, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, the Portogruaro International Music Festival, the Sesto Rocchi Festival and the Amici della Musica di Padova. Trio David has also taken part in the concerts organised by the Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Imola in the Sala Mariele Ventre, both as a trio and in a quartet with Alessandro Taverna.
The Trio has been invited to cultural events such as the Festivaletteratura, where it engaged in dialogue through musical performances with the poet Ruth Padel on the book Beethoven Variations. The Trio has collaborated with the University of Padua, performing in the Sala dei Giganti as part of a lecture on Modernism within the ‘Essere a Tempo’ festival.
Trio David has performed at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on World Water Day 2024. In the same year, they performed the world premiere of Nicola Campogrande’s Urban Gardens (version for piano quartet) alongside pianist Claudio Bonfiglio, as part of the Summer Festival of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.
In 2023, Trio David was chosen by CIDIM and the Accademia degli Sfaccendati for the “Wolf-Ferrari Project,” thanks to which they recorded the complete works for string trio by the Italian-German composer for Brilliant Classics label.
For the same label, they also recorded Ferdinand Ries' quartets for flute and strings with Ginevra Petrucci. In 2025, the Trio recorded Brahms' Piano Quartet Op. 60 with pianist Giulia Zampieri as part of the “Brahms Project,” conceived and promoted by the Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Imola in collaboration with the record label 2R Digital Classics.
Again in collaboration with CIDIM, as part of the “Young Musical Talents in the World” project, Trio David made his international debut at the Liszt Institute in Zagreb, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Ankara, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul.
In January 2025, the Trio was a guest on Rai Radio 3's program “La Stanza della Musica”, in an episode hosted by composer Nicola Campogrande.
Following their victory in one of the special prizes of the 2025 Filippo Nicosia Award, Trio David was selected by Maestro Simone Gramaglia (Quartetto di Cremona) to join the “Dimore del Quartetto” international network. In 2026, the Trio wins the “Angelo Foletto” scholarship at the Fiesole School of Music.
Trio David is currently perfecting its skills under the guidance of Maestros Antonello Farulli, Paolo Bonomini (Trio Boccherini), Francesco Dillon (Quartetto Prometeo), Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet) and Cuarteto Casals at the Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Imola and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. It has also participated in masterclasses held by Maestros Rainer Schimdt (Hagen Quartet), Dirk Mommertz (Fauré Quartet), Raphaël Merlin (Ébène Quartet), Cristiano Gualco (Quartetto di Cremona), Boris Garlitsky, Jacques Ammon and Patrick Jüdt.
Gloria Santarelli is the violinist of Trio David.
After graduating in 2018 with highest honors from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome under the guidance of Maestro Giuseppe Crosta, she continued her violin and music studies with Maestros Oleksandr Semchuk and Ksenia Milas, key figures in her musical journey, with whom she completed a three-year advanced violin program at the Fondazione Accademia di Imola in 2020.
In 2025, she earned a diploma in advanced violin studies from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Maestro Sonig Tchakerian.
She has won several awards, including the Bach Prize at the Massimo Marin Competition, the Sibelius Prize at the Note di Talento Competition, and First Prize at the Riviera Etrusca Competition and the Dinu Lipatti Competition in the Chamber Music category with pianist David Mancini.
Her chamber music training began under the guidance of Maestro Angelo Pepicelli and continued within the Avos Project, where she earned a Level I Master’s degree in Theory and Practice of Chamber Music in collaboration with Roma Tre University with pianist Gian Marco Masini.
In 2022, she earned a second-level Master’s degree in chamber music with pianist David Mancini under the guidance of the Trio di Parma and Maestro Pierpaolo Maurizzi at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory. In the same duo, she also graduated in advanced chamber music studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the guidance of Maestro Ivan Rabaglia.
She has collaborated with leading musicians, including Enrico Bronzi, Carlo Maria Parazzoli, Francesco Dillon, Alessio Pianelli, and Francesco Fiore.
With the aim of broadening her artistic and musical training, she has attended violin masterclasses with Maestros Lukas Hagen, Marco Fiorini, Carlo Maria Parazzoli, David Romano, Eszter Haffner, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, and Gregory Ahss.
She plays a 1925 Evasio Emilio Guerra violin from Turin.
Chiara Mazzocchi is the violist of Trio David.
Under the guidance of Maestro Riccardo Savinelli, she earned her bachelor’s degree from the G. Briccialdi Conservatory in Terni in 2021 with a grade of 110/110 summa cum laude, presenting a thesis titled Rebecca Clarke: Viola-Player and Composer, while in 2024 she earned her master’s degree with honors and distinction with the thesis York Bowen: The Viola Legacy and the Rebirth of a Composer, for which she won a scholarship from CLT Arvedi AST. At the same institute, she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Chamber Music.
She attended courses at Avos Project in Rome as a chamber musician for four years, playing with artists such as Mario Montore, Diego Romano, Alessio Pianelli, Mirei Yamada, and David Romano, and participating in viola masterclasses led by Danusha Waskiewicz, Timothy Ridout, Volker Jacobsen, and Ettore Causa.
In 2024, she was admitted to the Advanced Chamber Music Course taught by Maestro Ivan Rabaglia and to the viola course with Maestro Simone Briatore at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. As part of her academic activities, she was selected to perform with Maestros Sonig Tchakerian and Giovanni Sollima.
In 2026, she co-authored a book published by LIM, titled Voci Ritrovate. Rebecca Clarke and the Viola in the Twentieth Century.
She plays a 1996 Paolo Sorgentone viola.
Tommaso Castellano is the cellist of Trio David.
Born in 2001, he began studying the cello under the guidance of Maestro Riccardo Martinini, and later continued his training with Maestros Kyung Mi Lee and Diego Romano. In 2021, he was selected by the “Pavia Cello Academy” to study with Maestro Enrico Dindo. He graduated in 2023 at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome with a grade of 110 cum laude. He has attended masterclasses led by Maestros Thomas Demenga, Asier Polo, Brannon Cho, Mario Brunello, Frans Helmerson, and Jens Peter Maintz.
A finalist in the 2022 National Arts Award, he was awarded the “Pasquale Perazzetti” scholarship. In the same year, he was awarded a scholarship from the “Maria Pia Induni Fund.” Also in 2022, together with pianist David Mancini, he performed a recital in the Sala Casella in Rome for the Accademia Filarmonica Romana; the concert was recorded and broadcast on RaiRadio3.
Thanks to this collaboration, in 2023 he won the “Young People Play Petrassi” competition, performing in concert with the music of the Lazio-born composer.
He works as a co-principal cello and section cello with the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Verdi in Trieste and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
He is currently enrolled in the advanced chamber music course in the class of Maestro Ivan Rabaglia at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
He plays a Patrik Seaux cello built in Padua in 2015.