Francesco Sica

Francesco Sica was born in Sicily into a musical family. He began studying the violin at the age of seven at the Conservatorio di Catania, where he graduated with distinction. After advanced studies with Felice Cusano at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, he continued his education at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, where he earned his diploma in the class of Priya Mitchell and later completed his Konzertexamen with Sophia Jaffé. In parallel, he studied chamber music at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid with Ralf Gothóni and in Essen with Dirk Mommertz.

Francesco Sica performs regularly as a chamber musician and is a member of the Gémeaux Quartett and the Monte Piano Trio. Together with his colleagues, he has appeared in prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, Kings Place, Conway Hall, the Tonhalle Zürich, and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. He has also been featured in broadcasts by WDR, SWR, HR, BR, and Deutschlandfunk.

He has performed at many major festivals, including the George Enescu Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Osnabrücker Kammermusikfestival, Mozartfest Würzburg, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Heidelberger Frühling, and Constella Festival in the USA. As a soloist, he has won several national and international competitions, including the Concorso Città di Vittorio Veneto.

Francesco Sica is the artistic director of the MusiKulinarium chamber music festival on Lake Constance. He has recorded two trio albums for GENUIN, both praised by critics — including Sunday Times Magazine and Fono Forum, which awarded them five stars.

He has been deeply inspired by masterclasses with artists such as Ivry Gitlis, Günter Pichler, Menahem Pressler, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Eberhard Feltz, Enrico Dindo, Sergey Girshenko, and Valentin Erben.

Since 2023, he has served as principal second violin of the Musikkollegium Winterthur and is a member of the Winterthurer Streichquartett.