Matteo Cimatti (*2000) is a prize-winning Italian violinist who has been praised for his »refined playing and melodious and intense tone«. Based between London and Switzerland, he has appeared alongside several European orchestras and at numerous festivals and is also an accomplished and enthusiastic chamber player.

In May 2025, he was named as one of the winners at the 2025 Young Classical Artist Trust (YCAT) International Auditions. Matteo Cimatti has appeared as a soloist alongside several orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and has performed in numerous festivals.

Upcoming highlights include debuts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Berlin, a return to Wigmore Hall as well as appearances at several festivals including the Heidelberger Frühling and Beethovenfest Bonn.

Matteo Cimatti is a Burletti-Buitoni Trust nominee and has won numerous awards and accolades at national and international competitions.

An avid chamber musician since a very young age, Matteo Cimatti enjoys a rich and varied concert activity as a chamber player and has performed alongside such musicians as Janine Jansen or Suyeon Kang. He is a founding member of the Wendel Quartet, a piano quartet based in Basel, which was a prize winner at the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition in 2024.

Matteo Cimatti completed a Soloist Masters Degree at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU) in July 2024, where he studied with Janine Jansen and Tomo Keller. He previously earned Masters and Bachelors degrees from HEMU studying with Svetlana Makarova and Pavel Vernikov. Matteo has also been mentored by David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has benefited from lessons with such pedagogues as Miriam Fried, Mihaela Martin and Gerhard Schulz.

Matteo Cimatti plays a 1769 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor.