Violin
Biography
A Giovanni Paolo Maggini of 1620 is the violin Laura Gorna plays. She left the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with highest honours, continued with Salvatore Accardo at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona, won the Città di Vittorio Veneto competition and made an early concerto debut with the RAI orchestra in Milan. A member of the Accardo Quartet, she co-founded EsTrio in 2005 with the cellist Cecilia Radic and the pianist Laura Manzini, and the trio appeared with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo in May 2015. She records for Decca, Fonè and Dynamic and is professor of violin at the Milan Conservatory.