Lorenzo Micheli has taken up a busy concert career throughout the world since winning the first prize in some of the most prestigious guitar competitions (Alessandria, “Guitar Foundation of America Competition”). He has played more than 600 concerts all over Europe, in two hundred US and Canadian cities, in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as a soloist and with orchestra.
Since 2002 Lorenzo has been performing worldwide in duo with Matteo Mela – under the name of “SoloDuo” – in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Seoul’s Sejong Hall, Kiev’s Hall of Columns and Vienna’s Schubertsaal. Their duo was welcomed by “The Washington Post”  as “extraordinarily sensitive – nothing less than rapturous”.
His discography (over 20 titles in 15 years on the labels Naxos, Stradivarius, Pomegranate, and Soundset) includes the music of Dionisio Aguado, the Quartets, op. 19, by François de Fossa, the Sonatas by Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay, a CD of 17th Century Italian music for baroque guitar, archlute and theorbo, a collection of Arias and Cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, the complete guitar Concertos and the 24 Preludes and Fugues for two guitars by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a double CD of chamber masterpieces by Mauro Giuliani, Miguel Llobet’s complete guitar works, Antoine de Lhoyer’s Duos Concertants, three anthologies of music for two guitars (“Noesis”, “Solaria” and “Metamorphoses”), and the album “Morning in Iowa”, with former Dire Straits member David Knopfler. His latest recording, “Autumn of the Soul”, was released by Contrastes Records in November 2014.
A very active editor and researcher, Lorenzo has published solo and chamber works with guitar by such composers as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ferdinand Rebay. He is in charge of a collection of guitar music for the Canadian publisher “d’OZ”.
Lorenzo lives in Milan, Italy. He has served on faculty at the University School of Music (Musikhochschule) in Lugano, Switzerland, since 2011, and he is Artist in Residence at the University of Colorado.

Lorenzo Micheli è chitarrista e tiorbista. Un’intensa attività artistica come solista, in duo e con orchestra lo ha portato in 25 paesi europei, in oltre duecento città di Stati Uniti e Canada, in Africa, in Estremo Oriente e in America Latina.
Come “SoloDuo”, insieme a Matteo Mela, Lorenzo ha suonato nelle sale da concerto di tutto il mondo, dalla Carnegie Hall di New York alla Schubertsaal di Vienna, dalla Sala delle Colonne di Kiev alla Sejong Hall di Seoul: il “Washington Post” ha definito il duo “extraordinarily sensitive – nothing less than rapturous”.
La sua discografia annovera quasi 20 titoli in 15 anni per le etichette Naxos, Stradivarius, Pomegranate, Brilliant e Solaria, e comprende tra l’altro un disco di “Arie e Cantate” di Alessandro Scarlatti per voce e continuo (con Massimo Lonardi, Matteo Mela e Renata Fusco), i 24 Preludi e Fughe per due chitarre e i Concerti di Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, le opere complete di Miguel Llobet, l’album “Morning in Iowa” (con David Knopfler), tre antologie di musica per duo di chitarre e una serie di monografie dedicate a Dionisio Aguado, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Antoine de Lhoyer, Andrea Falconieri, Ferdinand Rebay, Mauro Giuliani e François de Fossa. Il suo ultimo disco come solista, “Autumn of the Soul”, è uscito nel novembre 2014 per l’etichetta spagnola “Contrastes”.
Lorenzo vive a Milano. Dopo aver insegnato quasi 10 anni all’Istituto Pareggiato della Valle d’Aosta, dal 2011 insegna al Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana di Lugano. È Artist in Residence della University of Colorado Boulder e, insieme a Matteo Mela, dirige una collana di musica per chitarra per la casa editrice canadese d’OZ.