Of Italian origin, Girolamo Bottiglieri graduated at the age of eighteen from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome (class of Giovanni Leone). Since 1992, he has been a student of Corrado Romano at the HEM Genève, where he won the 1st Prize for Virtuosity in 1997.

Winner of several international competitions, he has performed as a soloist with, among others, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He is the founder and first violinist of the Quatuor Terpsycordes, which, in 2001, won the First Prize for Virtuosity at the HEM Genève (class of Gabór Takács-Nagy) and won the First Prize at the 56th Concours de Genève. Since then, the Quatuor Terpsycordes has led an important international career (tours, recordings).

Girolamo Bottiglieri devotes an important part of his activity to philological research and to the performance of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoires on historical instruments; he is the founder and first violinist of the Baroque ensemble La Nouvelle Ménestrandie. He is the founder and first violinist of the baroque ensemble La Nouvelle Ménestrandie. Within the various ensembles with which he collaborates (La Cappella Mediterranea, Gli Angeli Genève, Clematis), he has recorded with the Sony Vivarte, Ambronay Editions and Ricercar labels and received important distinctions (Prix de l'Académie du disque lyrique, ffff de Télérama, Choc de Classica, nomination for Midem Classical Awards, Gramophone Editor's Choice).

Source: terpsycordes.com