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Rebecca Raimondi is an Italian violinist living in Germany.

Currently supported by the Jumpstart Jr. Foundation (https://jumpstartjr.org/), she holds a Lectureship position for baroque violin and baroque viola for the HIP Master at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.

As first prize winner of the second edition of the “Marco Uccellini” competition 2022, she is exploring the early baroque repertoire (Cima, Legrenzi, Uccellini, Cazzati, Mealli) for violin, violone, continuo and two voices.

She is currently also focusing on the influence of the Commedia dell’arte in the music of the late baroque and classical times, leading the project “Commedia Instrumentale” which involves six musicians expert in performance practice and two actors (Fabio Mangolini and Johann-Michael Schneider).

She has been part of the artistic direction of the Lienzingen Festival and of the Höri Musiktage 2023.

As a member of the baroque ensemble “La Tabatière”, she has been selected for the “Hofkapelle Rheinsberg” 2021/2022 (ensemble in residence) developing the research and recording of unknown pieces and composers from the baroque and classical times. She is also member of the “Cappella Sollertia”, based in Munich, which performs Cantatas in from various authors in real parts.

She regularly performs with the “Freiburger Barockorchester” and Bach Akademie Stuttgart(leader and solo of the second violins), “Dresden Festival Orchestra”, “Orchestra of the Eighteen Century”, “Leonore Orchestra” and as a soloist with “La Stagione Frankfurt”

She has recorded CDs for Cremona Records with sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, for Sheva Contemporary, for Brilliant (2020) with Riccardo Malipiero chamber music (2020), for Stradivarius with the music for violin solo and violin and piano of the contemporary composer Marco Quagliarini (2021) who dedicated to her the solo piece. 2022 was released for Naxos the CD “In the mist of things” with the Chamber music by the composer Karl Fiorini. All CDs have been positively reviewed on the Financial Times, The Art Desk, Pizzicato, Planet Hugill, Classical Music Sentinel, Gramophone (March 2018), and others.

As a soloist she has performed the Brahms Concerto, Mozart Concerto no. 4 and Bach Double Concerto. On period instruments, Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.4, Vivaldi "The Four Seasons", the "Grosso Mogul" RV208 among others.

Formerly devoted to Contemporary music, she has been invited by the the Filarmonica Romana, where in 2017 and 2019 she performed recitals for solo violin. Composers such as Marco Quagliarini, Paolo Marchettini, Massimo Munari, Daniele Carnini and David Collins dedicated their compositions to her.

As a member of the Duo Ardorè (violin and piano), founded in 2015, she has more than ten pieces written and dedicated to her. The ensemble won in 2017 the "Scotese" Prize as best ensemble of Nuova Consonanza Festival.

She has been member of the Avant Piano trio, which successfully performed in renowned venues such as St. James’s Piccadilly in London, Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome, and was selected for the Trondheim Chamber Music Academy 2018.

In 2022 she completed a Master in baroque violin and historical informed practice with “Auszeichnung” in the class of Petra Muellejans and Mechthild Karkow at the HfMDK in Frankfurt. In 2018, she has completed a Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Jacqueline Ross, where she also obtained the Master (CRD) with David Takeno, and where she studied baroque violin with Pavlo Beznosiuk. She previously studied with Salvatore Accardo, Marco Fiorini, Antonio De Secondi obtaining the highest degree cum laude and honors at the Conservatorio O. Respighi.

She has been awarded the "Excellentissimus" Prize, released by appointment of the President of the Italian Republic, the "Monte dei Paschi di Siena" Scholarship for the best students of Salvatore Accardo's class of the Chigiana International Summer Academy.

She plays a Gennaro Gagliano 1732 violin loaned by the Jumpstart Jr. Fundation.