Hans Liviabella was born in Turin into a family of musicians. His great-great-grandfather was a pupil of Rossini, his great-grandfather was a chapel master, his grandfather a composer, and his father a viola player, who introduced him to the study of the violin at the age of four. He then entered the Conservatory of Milan, graduating under the guidance of Christine Anderson, and studied at Cremona’s Stauffer Academy with Salvatore Accardo and at Vienna’s Musikhochschule with Dora Schwarzberg, where he was chosen as one of the best pupils to perform in a live radio concert in Moscow in memory of the famous Russian teacher Jankelevich. After an audition with Gidon Kremer, he was directed to further his studies with Maja Glezarova at the Conservatory of Moscow, and thanks to the scholarship for talented young musician of Turin’s De Sono association he was able to broaden his training also with Stefan Georghiu, Franco Gulli, the Trio di Trieste, and Valentin Berlinsky.

He is a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and has worked with them since 1992. He has been invited by Claudio Abbado to perform with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart di Bologna, and he has played first violin in the Filarmonica della Scala and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He is the first violin of the Quartetto Energie Nove, an ensemble with which he carries out an intense concert activity, and he has worked with A. Lonquich, I. Pogorelich, V. Mendelsshon, and J. Rachlin. Energie Nove has made radio and television recordings for RTSI and regularly records for the Dynamic label. Currently, he is the leader of the second violins section of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, with which he performed Prokofiev’s first Violin Concerto under the baton of Alain Lombard and made the world première recording, for Forlane, of Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de St. Georges’s Violin Concerto Op. 7 No. 2, and of the concertos by A. Casella, Lino Liviabella, and G. F. Malipiero.