Ivan Monighetti

Currently he is a professor at the Musik-Akademie Basel [1] Archived 2019-01-23 at the Wayback Machine in Switzerland and is a guest professor at both the Moscow Conservatory and Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. His albums were sold under such labels as Erato Records, Harmonia Mundi, Edel AG and WERGO among others. He also appeared with such musicians as Anner Bylsma, Nancy Argenta, Simon Standage, Ronald Brautigam, Wieland Kuijken, Alexei Lubimov and many others and on such American festivals as Ravinia and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals and German ones such as Schleswig-Holstein Musik and Berliner Festspiele.

He first appeared as a conductor was in 1998 at the English Haydn Festival where he conducted the Haydn's Nelson Mass and during both 1999 and 2000 was re-invited numerous times for a principal conductor work. During that year he also founded Camerata Boccherini orchestra with which he traveled through France, the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia and Russia. In 2003 he was awarded Frederic prize and the same year performed Cello concerto at the Martha Argerich Festival which was held in Japan. During the same year he also participated in the Concerto grosso which just like the cello one was composed by Frangiz Ali-Zadeh along with Muhai Tang and Mario Venzago.

Ivan Monighetti (born 1948) is a Russian cellist and conductor of Swiss descent.