Docente

Alberto Bocini was born in Prato (Italy).

He has been Principal Double Bass player for 5 years in the “Orchestra Nazionale dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia” in Rome and for 15 years dell’ “Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” in Florence; with the same role he appeared with many other orchestras, such as La Scala di Milano, I Solisti Veneti, the London Symphony Orchestra.

Founder member of the popular double bass quartet “the Bass Gang”, presenting an extremely heterogeneous repertoire as musical choices, virtuosity and irony; they released 3 CDs and 1 DVD; NHK in Japan, KBS in Korea, RAI in Italy, broadcasted their concerts and interviews.

He has taught masterclasses in much of the world: Europe, Usa, Japan, Taiwan, South America. As a soloist he has recorded for Denon, Stradivarius, Velut Luna, NBBrecords. Since he left the orchestra in 2012 he’s dedicating more in writing for his instrument; there are many of his works for solo double bass like his “6 Ballads” showing new solutions and ideas in using the double bass; more recently he released his first works for double bass and orchestra:
“XUITE-0, modular suite for amplified double bass and orchestra” (premiered with the OSPA – Orchestra Sinfonica di Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2017) ; “Concerto for Double Bass and Strings (premiered in Florence, Italy, with Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, 2020) and “Sliding Doors, for violin, double bass, orchestra and cell ringtones played by audience” (premiered in Bari, Italy with Orchestra Sinfonica Metropolitana, 2018, and recently premiered in US, in Hammond, Louisiana, 2022 with Southeastern Symphony Orchestra).

As chamber musician or soloist, Alberto Bocini collaborated with an impressive scene of prestigious performers, such as: Yuri Bashmet, Enrico Dindo, Vadim Repin, Patrick Gallois, Grazia Raimodi, Natalia Gutman, Pietro De Maria, Christoph Hartmann, Martin Kuuskmann, Massimo Quarta, Roberto Diaz, among many others. An eclectic and enthusiastic musician, Alberto Bocini does not hesitate to push the boundaries of his repertoire, not only with the Bass Gang or with his own compositions, but also ranging over rock music (see the album “The Cryme of Selling Lambs” dedicated to Genesis), soundtracks (see the album “Moving in the Movies”, NBBrecords) or contemporary music (“Braevissimo”, concerto for double bass and strings by Ennio Morricone, for Denon, Japan).

Since 2009 is professor at the HEM – Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve, and since 2024 Professor of the Advanced Course in double bass at the Stauffer Academy.