About
Riccardo Terzo was born in 1990 in Palermo, the son of a singer and a bassoonist. At the age of five he began to study piano, with seven years, bassoon with Maurizio Barigione at the Conservatorio in Palermo; he had also studies of composition and piano-accompaniment.
He earned his bassoon diploma with distinction from Marco Postinghel at the Mozarteum University, but continued his studies with Dag Jensen in Munich and since 2014 with the Vienna Philharmonic's principal bassoonist Stephan Turnovsky in Vienna. He won first prizes at international competitions and played for example in youth orchestras, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, at the Munich Symphony Orchestra and in the Vienna State Opera with important conductors. Riccardo Terzo's chamber music partners include violinist Susanna Yoko Henkel, cellist Natalia Gutman, clarinetist Eduard Brunner and many others. In 2010 he became principal bassoonist at the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, since 2018 Riccardo Terzo is the first principal bassoonist at Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig.