Classical cellist.
Born in 1972, Vittorio Ceccanti began studying the cello at the age of 5 and worked with Mischa Maisky, David Geringas and Natalia Gutman, graduating with honours as a pupil of Gutman at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. Winner of several international prizes, he made his début as a soloist at the age of seventeen, performing the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra (ORF) conducted by Pinchas Steinberg at the Musikvereinsaal in Vienna, and the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, televised by RAI-TV. Since then, he has been regularly invited to perform as a solo artist in Europe, the Americas and Asia
He became a professor at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 2000 and at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto in 2009