Musician, psychoanalyst and educator, Tommaso Lonquich is acclaimed by reviewers as a “formidable clarinetist” and praised for his “passion, sumptuous tone, magical finesse and dazzling virtuosity”. He is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and served as solo clarinetist with Denmark-based Ensemble MidtVest for thirteen years.
He has appeared on stages across five continents, performing with Christian Tetzlaff, Ilya Gringolts, Pekka Kuusisto, Carolin Widmann, Stella Chen, Nicolas Altstaedt, David Finckel, Nicolas Dautricourt, Maximilian Hornung, Anneleen Lenaerts, Radovan Vlatković, Trio Boccherini and the Danish, Van Kuijk, Zaïde and Vertavo string quartets.
As a soloist or guest principal with several orchestras, he has collaborated with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Fabio Luisi, Enrico Onofri, Adam Fischer and Leonard Slatkin. His twenty-five albums have garnered nominations for a Gramophone Award and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
In Denmark, Tommaso Lonquich is founder and Artistic Director of Schackenborg Musikfest, one of Scandinavia’s most prestigious festivals. Previously, he founded and directed KantorAtelier, a vibrant cultural space in Florence.
A devoted mentor, he served as Head of Chamber Music at the Dædalus Advanced Studies Program in Florence, an institution he co-founded. He has given masterclasses at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. His lecture series “The Listening Voice” has been presented at conservatories throughout Europe.
Alongside his artistic career, Tommaso Lonquich is a practicing psychoanalyst and co-founder of the International Center for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Ljubljana. He lectures on the theory and clinical practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis and serves on the Scientific Committee at OMANUT in Rome and the Bureau of the Associate Group of the New Lacanian School in Vienna.
