Piercarlo Sacco was pupil of Ivan Krivenski and Salvatore Accardo. He has won several international awards, including the Prix Special du Jury at the Yehudi Menuhin Young Violinists International Competition in Paris, where the jury was composed, alongside Menuhin, by Gidon Kremer and Vladimir Spivakov, amongst others. He has been hired as a soloist, and also as a conductor-soloist, by several orchestras. He has performed for musical establishments such as Società dei Concerti, Teatro alla Scala, Pomeriggi Musicali, Sentieri selvaggi, Paris’ Salle Berlioz, Radio Nacional de Espana, Parma’s Teatro Regio, Sofia’s Academy, Cremona’s Teatro Ponchielli, Turin’s Auditorium Lingotto. He has toured Europe, America and the Far East. As a chamber musician he has performed at festivals such as Estate Musicale Chigiana, Festival di Ravello, Milan’s Società Umanitaria and Sala Verdi, Turin’s Sala Grande del Conservatorio. He was awarded the first prize at the International show of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and at the International competition in Caltanissetta.He graduated from Siena’s Accademia Chigiana. He has participated in various tours with the Orchestra da Camera Italiana and Salvatore Accardo, and has realised several CDs for Warner Fonit, Fone EMI Classics. He has performed in chamber music formations with artists such as Accardo, Rocco Filippini, Franco Petracchi, Emanuele Segre. Between 2001 and 2004 he was second violin at Cagliari’s Teatro Lirico, performing under conductors such as R. Frubeck De Burgos, T. Koopman, L. Maazel, G. Pretre, G. Rozhdestvensky, P. Schreier, G. Neuhold and C. Hogwood. In 2000 he contributed to a CD produced by Hausmusik and UNESCO, recording Bach violin pieces. In 2003, in a duet with the pianist Alessandro Lanini, he released a CD entirely devoted to Astor Piazzolla, produced by Accademia Musicale Toscana and SAM Classica, which was well received by the critics. In 2003 his book Apprendre jouer du violon was published by De Vecchi France. For more than six years he has complemented his concert activity with teaching. During his 2007 concert tour in Florida with Flores del Alma, he gives a masterclass at the Florida South College in Lakeland. With Sentieri Selvaggi and Eugenio Finardi he won the prestigious Targa Tenco 2008. Some composers wrote for him, in particoular Carlo Boccadoro and Carlo Galante. He plays the violin with Tangoseis, the Sentieri selvaggi ensemble and Trio Flores del Alma.