Giovanni Sollima is an internationally renowned cellist and the most performed Italian composer in the world. He collaborates with the most renowned artists on the Italian and international music scene and has performed with the world's leading orchestras. He has also written and performed music for film, theater, television and dance.

Since 2010 he has taught at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where he was awarded the title of Academician. In 2012 he founded, together with Enrico Melozzi, the 100 Cellos.

In the field of composition he explores different genres making use of ancient, oriental, and electric instruments and of his own invention, playing in the Sahara Desert, underwater, or with an ice cello. Over the past few years Giovanni Sollima has been able to intensify his activity in the field of composition having received several commissions, including, for example, The Jungle Book, premiered in Kiel in the fall of 2020.

Noteworthy are his tours to Japan in April 2023 (which touched the cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Hyogo, Kanagawa) and to Argentina in November 2023, together with Mario Brunello, for the Teatro Colon and Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires.

Giovanni Sollima plays a Francesco Ruggeri cello (Cremona, 1679).

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