Born in Florence in 1999, Viola Innocenti is a creative and curious international artist. She worked as remplaçant in different international orchestras such as Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Metropole Orkest, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie. She’s also active in different ensembles, such as Doelenensemble and Ciconia Consort. She performed with Noies String Quartet in the opening concert of Belcea String Quartet in String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam and she was part of NSKA, Netherlands String Quartet Academy in Utrecht, coached by Quatuor Danel, Simone Gramaglia, Lukas Hagen and others. In April 2025 she recorded a CD with Metropole Orkest and the composer Damiano Pascarelli. For the season 2022-23 she was an academist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestra, playing in both chamber music and orchestra. From October 2022 she’s member of Batavierhuis, an artist house based in Rotterdam.
At the age of 19, she obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in violin with full marks and honours in “Scuola di Musica di Fiesole” (IT) under the guidance of Lyubov Kuzma and Volodymyr Kuzma. After her graduation, she decided to go abroad to further develop herself and her artistry. In 2020, she moved to Rotterdam (NL) where she continued her studies with a Master of Music Degree in Classical Music Performance at Codarts University of the Arts under the guidance of Igor Gruppman and Vesna Gruppman.During her time in the Netherlands, she discovered she could freely express herself with the viola, an instrument closer to her soul and her inner world with which she created a very strong connection in a very short time. It is for this reason that she chose to pursue her studies with the viola in the class of M° Roman Spitzer, Principal Viola of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Due to her fast development, this change brought her great satisfaction since the very beginning.
Only two months after the switch, she joined the “Festival Musica sull’Acqua” (IT) playing with MACH orchestra and chamber music with renowned international artists such as Raphael Christ, Ian Bostridge and Diego Matheuz. She have been invited to different festivals and academies such as Schiermonnikoog Festival, Moritzburg Festival Academy, Berlin Opera Academy, Entroterre Festival in Bertinoro (IT), IMOC Festival in Chianciano (IT), Bergen Nasjonale Opera Academy and Bregenz Festival Academy. In 2022-23 she became part of NJO (Netherlands Youth Orchestra) and she passed the audition for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Academy. In 2023 she was on the reserve list of GMJO (Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester) and in 2024 she also passed the audition for EUYO as reserve list.
She attended masterclasses with renowned artists such as Garth Knox, Lawrence Power, Antonello Farulli, Diemut Poppen, Danusha Waskiewicz, Pavel Vernikov, Igor Volochine, Jana Ozolina, Ilya Grubert, Eliot Lawson and Klaidi Sahatci. In 2016 she was awarded with a scholarship for the Bertinoro Summer Masterclass after which she performed Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as a soloist. In 2018 she won a chamber music scholarship in Fiesole, later holding a concert for the association “Amici della Musica di Firenze” in Ancona (IT). In Fiesole, she wrote her thesis on music under the Third Reich, with a particular focus on concentration camps and exile. Her creative-artistic nature led her to experiment and thus during her masters she further deepened her research by combining Gideon Klein’s Strong trio (1944) with drawings and poems created in the Terezin camp through a multidisciplinary performative approach. For her work she was awarded and therefore selected to participate in Codarts Research Festival 2022. Viola is also author of “Sogno d’arte, a publication with her own reflections in poeticform and drawings of her grandfather Luca, a multifaceted artist.
