Francesco Siragusa is the principal double bass soloist player of the Milan La Scala Orchestra and of the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra. Winner of the most important international music competitions: the first prize at the Giovanni Bottesini International Competition for double bass players and the second prize at the CIEM International Competition of Geneva, thus becoming a reputed artist all over the world.
He exhibited himself as a soloist in Italy and abroad: at the Ravenna Alighieri Theatre, Milan Dal Verme Theatre, Hagen Stadthalle, Warsaw Filharmonia (where he played Bottesini with La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra for the Celebrations for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy), Geneva Institut National Genevois, Aarau Auditorium, Oxaca Macedonio Alcalà Theatre (Mexico), Milan La Scala Theatre, Brescia Grande Thetre, Cremona Ponchielli Theatre, Catania Bellini Theatre, Trieste Luttazzi Auditorium, Martigny Salle Les Alambics and so on.
He is a member of the group “I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala”. With this ensemble, he played at the Vienna Musikverein and performed, for the first time at the La Scala Theatre, the Bottesini’s “Allegro alla Mendelssohn”. His performances are very much appreciated thanks to his extraordinary temperament and to the great “cantabilità” he enhances to double bass.
He recorded a Giovanni Bottesini piano and double bass music CD for the “Concerto Edizioni musicali Musicmedia” label, that has been republished due to its great success. Then he published the II volume of Bottesini piano and double bass music for the prestigious “Amadeus” music magazine (that for the first time dedicated an album and a cover to double bass). Together with the group “I Virtuosi del teatro alla Scala”, he published a new CD of Bottesini double bass and orchestral pieces for the “Amadeus” magazine. He also recorded for “Brilliant Classics” label the Rossini sonatas for four with members of “Quartetto della Scala”, included the Rossini musical duo for cello and double bass. Is about to be published for the same label a CD of music by Bottesini including Gran Duo Concertante with Violinist Francesco De Angelis and the Trieste Nuova Orchestra Busoni conducted by Massimo Belli.
As a teacher, he has run for 4 years advanced training courses at the Perosi Academy of Biella, he always runs advanced training courses at the La Scala Academy and teaches regularly in national and international masterclasses in the main national and international conservatories and academies. He is also regularly invited as member of the jury of several international competitions.
