Tommaso Lonquich – Masterclasses

Tommaso Lonquich

Clarinet Faculty | The Global Conservatory

Musician, psychoanalyst and pedagogue, Tommaso Lonquich has been acclaimed by reviewers as a “formidable clarinetist" and praised for his “passion, sumptuous tone, magical finesse and dazzling virtuosity”. He is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and has served as Solo Clarinetist with Denmark-based Ensemble MidtVest for thirteen years.

He has appeared on the most renowned stages of five continents (Carnegie Hall, Wigmore, Alice Tully, Suntory, Salle Pleyel) and at major festivals (Lockenhaus, Oxford, Mecklenburg, Pacific, Music@Menlo, La Jolla, Bridgehampton). He has partnered among others with Christian Tetzlaff, Ilya Gringolts, Pekka Kuusisto, David Finckel, Wu Han, Nicolas Altstaedt, Ani and Ida Kavafian, Maximilian Hornung, Anneleen Lenaerts, Yura Lee, Gilles Vonsattel, Juho Pohjonen, Radovan Vlatkovic, as well as with the Danish, Vertavo, Van Kuijk, Noûs, Indaco and Zaïde string quartets.

In Denmark, Tommaso Lonquich is the founder and Artistic Director of Schackenborg Musikfest, one of Scandinavia’s most prestigious festivals. Previously he served as Artistic Director of KantorAtelier, a vibrant Florentine cultural space based dedicated to music, theatre, art and psychoanalysis. Particularly active in the field of improvisation, he has led workshops at the Juilliard School and has collaborated with prominent visual artists, dancers and theatre companies.

A devoted mentor, Tommaso Lonquich served as the Head of Chamber Music at the Dædalus Advanced Studies Program in Florence, an institution which he co-founded. He has given masterclasses at the Manhattan School of Music, the State University of New York, the Royal Danish Academy, the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, the Utah State University, Shanghai Conservatory, and the Royal Welsh College of Music, among others. His series of lectures “The Listening Voice” has been presented at Conservatories throughout Europe.

He performs regularly as a soloist and solo clarinetist with orchestras such as the Haydn Philharmonie (Austria), the Orchestra Leonore (Italy), the Chamber Orchestra of Mantua (Italy) and the Slovenian Radio Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Fabio Luisi, Adam Fischer, Enrico Onofri and Leonard Slatkin.

He can be heard on twenty-five CD releases by CPO, Music@Menlo, NovAntiqua and Brilliant. His recordings have been nominated for a Gramophone Award and for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

Alongside his artistic career, Tommaso Lonquich is a practicing psychoanalyst at the International Center for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, which he founded in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a lecturer in Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and a member of the Scientific Committee at OMANUT in Rome.

Tommaso Lonquich is a Gleichweit, Seggelke, ZAC Ligature, and Buffet Crampon Artist and plays historical instruments by Soren Green and Seggelke.

The 2025–2026 season will take him to Korea, China, the United States, Australia, and throughout Europe. As a soloist he will perform concertos by Spohr, Mozart, Copland and Lutoslawski.

"The clarinet, which “searches” for itself throughout the piece on its journey toward expression, deconstructing the metalanguage of its own being to construct new solutions — like the chirping attempt of a strange bird — left the audience breathless. The interpretation by Tommaso Lonquich will go down in the annals of the Hrvatski Dom"

Dalmacija Danas - Split (3-10-25)

https://www.dalmacijadanas.hr/osvrt-ako-se-po-otvorenju-sezona-poznaje-hrvatski-dom-ceka-spektakularan-period-synchronos-odusevio-glazbenim-putovanjem-kroz-splitske-skladateljske-bisere2/

"Tommaso Lonquich and Ilya Gringolts (...) revealed not only the extraordinary instrumental depth that distinguishes them, but also the great vitality of the score."

Vatican News (13-04-24)

https://www.vaticannews.va/it/mondo/news/2024-04/cento-anni-dal-pierrot-lunaire-in-italia.html

“Tommaso Lonquich, master of a rhythmic athleticism and a dynamic range that place him in the front row among the virtuosos of his instrument heard over many decades.”

OperaClick (5-07-24)

https://www.operaclick.com/recensioni/teatrale/padova-auditorium-cesare-pollini-centenario-di-pierrot-lunaire-italia

“The five pieces of the suite were performed with brilliant virtuosity (…) by Tommaso Lonquich's sinuous clarinet”.

Il Giornale della Musica (6-07-2024)

https://www.giornaledellamusica.it/recensioni/i-cento-anni-del-pierrot-lunaire-italia

“Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115, received a captivating, even gripping performance. (...) Clarinetist Tommaso Lonquich wailed when called for, but there wasn’t much need for that. He attentively followed the import of Brahms’s cues and floated gently in and out of the texture”.

San Francisco Classical Voice (31-07-2023)

https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/quartet-romantic-quintets-menlo#

"delicately sumptuous, featuring gorgeous interplay between the two soloists... "

".... Mysterious pianissimos maintained with a beautiful sound and focus"

"the overall effect is immense