Born in Bergamo in 1992 into a family of musicians, Italian-French cellist Thomas Chigioni completed his studies at the conservatories of Milan, Bergamo, and the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis; earning two diplomas in cello and two in baroque cello. He has attended master classes and courses taught by important masters, and has played with such musicians as Amandine Beyer, Andrea Marcon, Václav Luks, Rachel Podger, Alessandro de Marchi, Maxim Emelyanychev, Antonio Greco, Andrea de Carlo, Daniele Giorgi, Olivia Centurioni and Enrico Onofri
Thomas Chigioni collaborates, also as first cello, with some of the most prestigious ensembles at the European level: Collegium 1704, Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Il Pomo d’Oro, Academia Montis Regalis (winner of a scholarship in 2018), Ensemble Los Elementos, Innsbruck Festwochenorchester, Cremona Antiqua, with whom he has had the opportunity to perform at major European Early Music festivals (Riga Early Music Festival, Settimane Barocche di Brescia, Warsaw Chopin Festival, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Musikfest Bremen, Bratislava Music Festival, Harmonia Moraviae, Barokkfest Trondheim, etc) and in the most prestigious concert halls (Berliner Philharmonie, Musikverein Wien, Mozarteum Salzburg, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Rudolfinum Prag, Chapelle Royale Versailles, Concertgebow Brugge, Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht, Rokokotheater Schwetzingen, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Opera Royal de Versailles, Teatro Grande in Brescia, Kölner Philharmonie, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Reduta Bratislava, Theatre de Caen, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Sala Verdi in Milan, etc). He conducts from the cello or harpsichord Ensemble Locatelli, a baroque orchestra based in Bergamo, which he founded in 2014, for which he also curates a concert series dedicated to early music in his own city.
Thomas Chigioni has recorded for Warner, Pan Classics, Amadeus, Glossa, Pentatone, Da Vinci Classics, NovAntiqua and ClassicaDalVivo. He plays a baroque cello built by Pierre Bohr (Milan) in 2012, a cello built by Emilio Barichello in 2019 and a 5-string cello, also by Emilio Barichello, from 2018. Since 2022, he has been teaching baroque cello at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Claudio Monteverdi of Cremona Conservatory, and since 2024 at the Conservatorio Luca Marenzio di Brescia.