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“Andrea Oliva is one of the best flutists of his generation, a shining star in the world of flute”: these are the words with which Sir James Galway defines Andrea Oliva, principal flute of the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome since 2003.
Born in Modena in 1977, he graduated with the highest grades in five years only at the Musical Institute Vecchi-Tonelli in Modena. He then specialized with C. Montafia, J. C. Gérard and J. Galway, starting an immediately brilliant career.
He won the Kobe International flute competition in 2005.
Aged 23, he was already an active member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra when, after attending the Herbert von Karajan Academy, he was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to take the role of principal flute, under the prestigious batons of C. Abbado, L. Maazel, V. Gerghiev, S. Oramo, M. Jansons and B. Haitink.
Personally invited by Claudio Abbado, he has performed with the Mozart Orchestra in Bologna and he regularly teaches at the orchestra’s Academy.
Between 2001 and 2003 he was principal flute of the Rome Opera House Orchestra and he presently cooperates, in the same role, with numerous orchestras such as La Scala in Milan, Bayerische Rundfunk, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Bamberg Symphoniker, ORT in Florence, Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
He regularly collaborates with outstanding artists such as A. Lonquich, E. Pace, N. Carusi, A. Hewitt, E. Segre and J. Galway. He has performed several times as a soloist with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome, conducted by M. W Chung, C. Hogwood and A. Pappano.
He is a stable member of the Nuovo Quintetto Italiano and the Kaleido Ensemble, and has performed with both in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Among the numerous awards received in some of the most important Italian and international competitions, particular mention deserve the first prize at the Kobe International Flute Competition (he was the first Italian flutist to achieve such recognition) and the third prize at the ARD Music Competition in Munich.
He is professor of the master course in orchestral flute repertoire at the “Vecchi – Tonelli” Music Institute in Modena and professor of flute at the Accademia Nazionale S.Cecilia in Rome; he also holds Masterclasses all over the world.
He has recorded for ARTS (Beethoven duet, with M° Michele Marasco), for FaLaUt Edition (Prokofiev, Poulenc and Martin Sonatas for Flute and Piano) and for Chant de Linos (Händel Sonatas). Soon to be released is a didactic DVD with flute teachings for the Soffia la Musica collection, Accademia Editions, as well as a CD recorded with Angela Hewitt for Hyperion (J.S.Bach Sonatas). In June 2009 his recording of Olivier Messiaen’s “Le merle noir” for flute and piano, with the pianist Angelo Pepicelli, went out with the magazine Amadeus.
In 2012 M° Andrea Oliva will make his debut as a soloist at the Wigmore Hall of London.