Massimiliano Favella
He began studying double bass at the Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” under the guidance of M° Massimo Giorgi. He continued his studies at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole under the guidance of Alberto Bocini and Franco Petracchi at the Accademia “Walter Stauffer”.In 2019, he was admitted to the MAS in Music Performance and Interpretation at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano under the guidance of Enrico Fagone, which he completed in 2020. He was then admitted to the Master in Music Performance, completed in 2023.Since 2021, he has held the position of Principal Double Bass with the Mannheimer Philharmoniker, and from 2024 he collaborates as Assistant Principal Double Bass and section player with the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and from 2026 as a section double bassist with the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.In 2023, he was admitted to the Hochschule der Künste Bern, completing the CAS in Orchestral Studies in 2024.December 2025: finalist at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.He currently lives in Rome.