It was founded in 2015 in Osaka, Japan, by Edmondo Filippini. Since that year, it established a rich catalogue of both printed music and recordings, focusing in particular on the Classical and Jazz repertoires. It began as a small-sized reality, and its beginning are dedicated to contemporary music: the Society’s project started with a first publication dedicated to the acousmatic music by Biagio
Putignano. From that moment, and almost immediately, the Da Vinci catalogue opened itself to large-scale productions, including the complete recording of Bach’s keyboard works and the complete recording of Mozart’s and Beethoven’s Keyboard on period instruments. The Society established partnerships leading it, within a short time, to the publication of approximately 150 recordings and 200 scores every year. Today, the Society’s publications are distributed worldwide thanks to Egea Music, which carefully manages their presence in the paper and discographic catalogues. In 2019, Da Vinci established an agreement with Naxos, for the inclusion of its catalogue within the prestigious Naxos Music Library. In 2019, moreover, Hal Leonard accepted to distribute the Society’s printed music. These elements, combined with the always increasing attention to its productions by the most important specialist journals and channels (such as Rivista Musica, Res Musica, Pizzicato, Rekoodo no Geijutsu, Gramophone, American Record Guide, France Musique, Radio 3, and Rai 5), quickly led Da Vinci to international success. This brought the Society to grow increasingly in terms of musical offer, with more and more prestigious artistic collaborations. It represents the idea of a recording studio created in order to respond to the artists’ needs, rather than vice-versa. Since its foundation, it gradually and constantly established itself, to the point that today it realizes most of the published recordings, allowing the company’s] complete supervision of every project it undertakes. In 2020, the idea of DV Young Sounds came from an intuition by founder Edmondo Filippini and his collaborator Gabriele Zanetti, with the cooperation of musicologist and pianist Chiara Bertoglio. It is a project dedicated to young musicians and to the future of Classical music. DVYS is a call for recording projects financing new musical ideas proposed by new entries in the artistic field. Yearly, they are invited to propose their projects: if accepted, their realization will be entirely financed by the Società Da Vinci, leading, in some cases, to discographic debuts. In 2021 a cooperation with the Festival “Armonie della Sera” also began. Da Vinci Publishing is the Festival’s media partner; it manages the recording (and thus part of the Festival’s very memory) of the most prestigious live concerts. These are later broadcast on radio, and some are published within a special collection dedicated to the Festival. In spite of its temporal brevity, the Society’s story is marked by its great variety and by the attention it dedicates to artistic quality. It favours, first and foremost, a direct and unmediated relationship with the artist. In the digital era of interconnections, it emphasizes primarily the human relationship with and among people. DA VINCI PUBLISHING COLLABORATORS
Gabriele Zanetti, Guitarist, DV Studio Sound Engineer, Associazione Da Vinci Supervisor
Chiara Bertoglio, Pianist, Da Vinci Classics Librettista, Translator, Associazione Da Vinci Member
