Enrico Dindo was born into a family of musicians. At the age of six he began studying cello and afterwards graduated at the Giuseppe Verdi State Music Conservatory in Turin. Later on, he perfected his studies with Egidio Roveda and Antonio Janigro. Since 1987, he began performing as principal cellist in the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, until 1998.
In 1997 he won the First Prize at Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris. The great Russian maestro wrote about him that “he is a cellist of exceptional qualities, a complete artist and a formed musician, with an extraordinary sound which flows as a splendid Italian voice”. Since then, he began the soloist activity performing in many countries, with prestigious orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre Nationale de France, Orchestre National Capitole Toulouse, Filarmonica della Scala, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. He also performed with important conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Aldo Ceccato, Gianandrea Noseda, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniele Gatti, Yuri Temirkanov, Paavo Järvi, Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Muti, as well as Mstislav Rostropovich.
In 2000, the Italian National Association of Musical Critics confers him the Abbiati Prize as the best soloist of the 1998-1999 season. In 2004 he was named overall winner of the Sixth International Web Concert Hall Competition, and in 2005 the President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, awarded him the Vittorio De Sica Prize.
Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra I Solisti di Pavia, an ensemble he founded in 2001, music director of the HRT Symphony Orchestra of Zagreb (2014-2021), artistic director of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana (from 2022), Enrico Dindo teaches cello at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Pavia Cello Academy and at the summer courses of the Garda Lake Music Festival.
