CARLO VISTOLI is awarded the Abbiati Prize 2024
Second concert by MDI ENSEMBLE in Milano at Memoriale della Shoah
JONATHAN WEBB to conduct two concerts in Prato
NEWS
CARLO VISTOLI is awarded the Abbiati Prize 2024
Countertenor Carlo Vistoli was named best singer of 2024 in the 43rd edition of the 'Franco Abbiati' Music Critics' Prize. http://www.carlovistoli.com
Second concert by MDI ENSEMBLE in Milano at Memoriale della Shoah
On Wednesday 17 April at 17:30 and 19:15 mdi ensemble will play the following programme for the cycle I Sommersi e i Salvati with Società del Quartetto: Aldo Finzi Piccola Berceuse for cello and piano Mieczysław Weinberg 12...
JONATHAN WEBB to conduct two concerts in Prato
On Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 April at 21:00, Jonathan Webb is conducting Benjamin Britten's Saint Nicolas, Cantata op. 42 in the Church of San Domenico in Prato with Camerata Strumentale di Prato.
ARTISTS
Min CHUNG
CONDUCTOR Music Director of the Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea) since January 2022, Associate Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic, he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, with whom he toured Asia in 2019 and Japan...
Myung-Whun CHUNG
CONDUCTOR Myung-Whun Chung’s long and outstanding musical career is marked by his appointment as Direttore Emeritus at Filarmonica della Scala in Milano since 2023, the first ever in their history; Principal Guest Conductor of Dresden Staatskapelle, also the first...
Jérôme CORREAS
CONDUCTOR Jérôme Correas trained as a harpsichordist and singer. A pupil of harpsichordist and musicologist Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume, he received first prize at the CNSMD (Conservatory) in Paris in baroque singing in the class of William Christie, then in opera in...
Andrea DE CARLO
CONDUCTOR Andrea De Carlo, graduated in Physics at La Sapienza in Roma, where he was born and where he studied double bass , cooperating as solo double bass with opera and symphonic institutions such as Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Orchestra Regionale Toscana in...
Andrea MARCON
CONDUCTOR Andrea Marcon was awarded the Händel Prize 2021 by the Händel-Haus Foundation in Halle. Invited by Teatro alla Scala in 2023 he conducted Li zite 'ngalera by Leonardo Vinci, followed by the first performance in Venezia of Il Trionfo del Tempo e del...
Andrea MOLINO
CONDUCTOR Andrea Molino opened the Accademia Chigiana's International Weeks 2023 on the 100th anniversary of its foundation by conducting Luciano Berio's Voci and Coro . In the same week he conducted his new composition for choir and percussion La Vérité, pas...
PANNI Marcello
Composer, Conductor, Music Organizer, Discography Born in Roma in 1940, Marcello Panni studied piano, composition and conducting in his hometown, graduating from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, where he was a pupil of Goffredo Petrassi. He has been a pupil...
Salvatore PERCACCIOLO
CONDUCTOR Salvatore Percacciolo is an opera and concert conductor, and a pianist. He was invited to conduct Il Barbiere di Siviglia by the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, where he was appointed Erste Kapellmeister, and where he also conducted Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro,...
Massimo RACCANELLI
CONDUCTOR Massimo Raccanelli conducted Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Comunale di Ferrara in 2023. On the same year he was nominated Artistic Director of the Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta. Born in Treviso, he graduated in cello at the Conservatory...
David ROBERTSON
CONDUCTOR Conductor and composer, after long collaborations as musical director in Australia (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), in the USA (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra), in Europe (Ochestre National de Lyon , BBC Symphony, Ensemble InterContemporain called by Pierre...
Michel TABACHNIK
CONDUCTOR Michel Tabachnik, as Music Director of the Brussels Phiharmonic, creates programmes with a traditional symphonic repertoire and XX century compositions, showing that there are no boundaries dividing music of yesterday and music of today. He studied piano,...
Jonathan WEBB
CONDUCTOR Jonathan Webb was invited by Gary Bertini to take the position of permanent conductor at the Tel Aviv Opera House , where he was entrusted with the direction of over 40 operas, including Der Freischütz, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Macbeth, Samson et...
Valentino VILLA
DIRECTION The rare opera Cefalo e Procri by Ernst Heinrich Křenek , juxtaposed with a new creation by Silvia Colasanti , marks Valentino Villa ‘ s debut in opera direction at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 2017, which in a few years becomes an important hub of his...
Patrizia BICCIRÈ
SOPRANO Patrizia Biccirè has taken up an international career which has led her to perform in many of the main opera theatres such as Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Regio di Torino,...
Nadja MCHANTAF
SOPRANO Nadja Mchantaf is a member of the resident ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin, where she has sung Rusalka (Rusalka), Tatjana (Eugen Onegin), Mimi (La Bohème), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Coși fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Das Kind...
Alda CAIELLO
SOPRANO Alda Caiello is one of the leading performers in the contemporary European scene, known for her versatile, imaginative and expressive abilities. Graduated in piano and singing at the Conservatory of Perugia, she has sung under the baton of important ...
Luisa CASTELLANI
SOPRANO Luisa Castellani is nowadays considered as one of the best interpreters of contemporary music and is particularly appreciated for the extreme flexibility of her voice. She combines passionate temperament, irony and lively wit to the rigour and taste of the...
Magdalena Anna HOFMANN
SOPRANO Magdalena Anna Hofmann was born in Warsaw, Poland and and completed her formal vocal training inVienna. After her soprano debut as Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at Klosterneuburg Festival in July 2011, Magdalena Anna Hofmann sung her...
Disella LARUSDOTTIR
SOPRANO Following her critically acclaimed performance in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2007 National Council Auditions and the subsequent documentary film The Audition, Disella Lárusdóttir began an important relationship with the company. In season 2015/2016 Ms....
Francesca LOMBARDI MAZZULLI
SOPRANO Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, after graduating from the 'Giuseppe Verdi' Conservatory in Milan and from the 'Girolamo Frescobaldi' Conservatory in Ferrara with Mirella Freni, perfected her formation with Luciano Pavarotti, Alessandra Molinari and Sonia Prina,...
Maria Stella MAURIZI
SOPRANO Maria Stella Maurizi was born in Fabriano in 1998. At the age of sixteen, she was studying with Beatrice Mezzanotte then at G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro with Valeria Esposito and Anna Vandi. On December 2020 she obtained her degree in Lyrical...
Claron McFADDEN
SOPRANO Claron McFadden studied voice at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Her celebrated opera roles are numerous and varied, including the title role of “Lulu” conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and The controller in Jonathan Dove’s “Flight”, both...
Sandrine PIAU
SOPRANO A wellknown singer in the baroque music world , the French soprano Sandrine Piau is performing with conductors such as William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset, Gustav Lleonhardt, Ivor Bolton, Ton Koopman, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski and...
Alice ROSSI
SOPRANO Alice Rossi is a flexible, expressive, colorful soprano, expert in Baroque and Contemporary music repertoire. Since 2021 she is a member of Junges Ensemble of Semperoper Dresden, where she performed Clorinda in La Cenerentola by Rossini, Adele in Fledermaus by...
Chantal SANTON JEFFERY
SOPRANO Often acclaimed as one of the most accomplished French sopranos of the moment, praised for her “gloriously smooth, rich textured soprano” (The international Record Review), Chantal Santon-Jeffery has embodied numerous roles in the opera, from Mozart (Donna...
Danbi LEE
MEZZO Mezzo-soprano Danbi Lee was born in 1995 in South Korea. She began studying singing at 'Chung-Ang' University, graduating under the guidance of Prof. Yang Hye-jung in 2017. In 2022, she graduated with top marks and honourable mention from the Conservatorio...
Sharon Jane CARTY
MEZZO Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is a singer who has firmly established a reputation as a respected interpreter of both early and contemporary works, alongside maintaining a busy schedule in mainstream opera and concert repertoire. She is an alumna of the RIAM...
Jennifer FEINSTEIN
MEZZO Rising young mezzo-soprano Jennifer Feinstein has been likened by the Los Angeles Times to “a young Horne, so rich is her mezzo and so full of spark was she on stage.” The Santa Barbara Independentpraised her “remarkable, expressive voice reaching through the...
Sara FULGONI
MEZZO The British Mezzo Sara Fulgoni is an outstanding vocal and dramatic talent, performing at major opera and concert venues worldwide in a huge variety of repertoire, all to critical acclaim. The full, rich and lustrous quality of her voice, as well as her...
Katarzyna Ewa OTCZYK
MEZZO Italy-Poland mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Otczyk graduated in opera singing at the Università Musicale F. Chopin of Warsaw in 2009, attending Anna Radziejewska’s class. She studied for a while at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Roma with the european Erasmus...
Silvia REGAZZO
MEZZO Silvia Regazzo was born in Rovigo. After a Master Degree in Philosophy, she graduated in Singing with honors at Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello of Venice. She won various International Singing Competitions: Toti Dal Monte, Città Lirica Opera-Studio, Città di...
Anna VIKTOROVA
MEZZO Anna Viktorova sang Marina Mnishek in Musorgskyj's Boris Godunov at the Santiago de Chile Theater alongside with Roberto Scandiuzzi where she also debuted as Amneris in Aida. She repeated her interpretation of Marina Mnishek in Musorgsky's Boris Godunov at...
Cristina ZAVALLONI
BIOGRAPHY Cristina Zavalloni’s musical background is steeped in jazz, bel canto, and composition. She was born in Bologna and, while starting off her carrier as a jazz vocalist on the avant jazz scene, she attended the Conservatorio di Musica “Giovan Battista...
Nicolò BALDUCCI
COUNTERTENOR Countertenor Nicolò Balducci approached the study of singing under the guidance of soprano Anna Maria Stella Pansini. He graduated with top marks, specialising with soprano Gemma Bertagnolli at the Conservatory of Vicenza. He took part in several...
Angelo GIORDANO
COUNTERTENOR Angelo Giordano completed his musical studies at the 'Nicola Sala' Conservatory of Music in Benevento, studying singing with Gioacchino Zarrelli, after his studies at 'San Pietro a Majella' Conservatory of Music in Napoli, where he studied early music...
Carlo VISTOLI
COUNTERTENOR After studying classical guitar and piano, Carlo Vistoli began his vocal training as countertenor in 2007 with William Matteuzzi and Sonia Prina. He attended the Conservatorio «Girolamo Frescobaldi» in Ferrara (Renaissance and Baroque Singing) as well as...
John Gordon BELLEMER
TENOR The American tenor John Bellemer has gained a reputation for his strong portrayals in a very wide repertoire. Possessed of a voice the New York Times calls “clarion-toned”, he continues to appear in leading roles at opera houses across North America and Europe....
Erin Bradford CAVES
TENOR Recent highlights for American tenor Erin Caves include his much acclaimed role-debut as Tristan in Tristan und Isolde at Oper Stuttgart under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling and the same role at the l’Opéra national de Bordeaux conducted by Paul Daniel. The...
Raffaele FEO
TENOR Raffaele Feo was born in Imperia in 1988 and alongside school studies he attended the conservatory in Genova under the guidance of mezzo-soprano Gloria Scalchi. Parallel to his training, he became appreciated in different repertoires from baroque to...
Christopher LEMMINGS
TENOR Christopher Lemmings studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before commencing a career which has seen him singing operatic and concert repertoire spanning five centuries, nine languages, countless styles and more than fifty individual roles, with a...
Paweł ŻAK
TENORE Paweł Żak is a student of the last year of master’s studies in Music Academy in Lodz, where he studies with professor Krzysztof Bednarek. In June 2021 he gained a diploma of Undergraduate Studies. His repertoire includes operatic roles from different musical...
Zachary Clayton ALTMAN
BARITONE Baritone Zachary Altman joins Theater Basel for seven productions in the 2014-15 season, including Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia), Schlemil/Hermann (Les contes d’Hoffmann), and Montano in a new production of Otello directed by Calixto Bieito. He will also...
Filippo BETTOSCHI
BARITONE Filippo Bettoschi ha iniziato lo studio del canto con Maria Trabucco e si è perfezionato con Margaret Baker Genovesi. Contestualmente si è laureato in Lingue e Letterature straniere a Genova e infatti parla fluentemente inglese, francese e tedesco e per...
Allen BOXER
BARITONE “Allen Boxer gives a superb, particularly endearing Golaud. His sound is large, appropriately dark, trenchant, worrying, painful and intense with extreme violence. His diction is matched by his beautiful legato and ideal projection. A great singer, whose...
Benjamin CHO
BARITONE Born in 1989 in South Korea, Benjamin Cho achieved his degree at the University of Arts of South Korea . In 2009 he made his debut as Pappageno in Die Zauberflöte and in 2010 he sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Seoul Art Center. He then attended the Music...
Francesco SALVADORI
BARITONO Born in Siena in 1985, Francesco Salvadori graduated at the Cherubini Conservatory in Firenze . He attended masterclasses at the Centre del Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and at the Advanced Course of Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in...
Alessio VERNA
BARITONE Born in Alessandria, he studied voice under the guidance of the mezzo-soprano Franca Mattiucci. He has recently made his debut as Malatesta in Don Pasquale at the Teatro Comunale Bologna as well as Don Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Florence Opera,...
DEDALO ENSEMBLE (conductor Vittorio Parisi)
ENSEMBLES Dèdalo Ensemble uses a number of different chamber formations in search of differentiated tonal blends which are sometimes extraneous to the most conventional repertoires. A strong affinity and shared goals have brought together musicians who have acquired...
Chiara MUTI
ACTRESSES Actress, author and director, Chiara Muti studied at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milano and then at the Piccolo Teatro School in Milan directed by Giorgio Strehler. She made her theatre debut in 1995 alongside Valeria Moriconi. Since then she...
Lukáš ZEMAN
BIOGRAPHY In season 2019/20 baritone Lukáš Zeman sang his first Orfeo by Monteverdi (Orfeo) at the Pilsen Opera House. This performance also reopened the Margravian Theater in Bayreuth after the renovation. Next to this he sang Verva and Konecny in Osud by Janacek in...
Rocco CAVALLUZZI
BASSO Rocco Cavalluzzi graduated with honours at the Conservatorium of Music L. Perosi in his home town Campobasso. In 2014 he attended the Academy of Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti” in Martina Franca where he was awarded “best talent” prize. He studied at Teatro alla...
ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM – EMN (conductor Andrea de Carlo)
ESEMBLES Mare Nostrum Ensemble, MNE, conducted by Andrea De Carlo, focuses on baroque music and in particular on the compositions by Alessando Stradella. Founded in 2005, Mare Nostrum Ensemble started as the “Consort of Viols” but the ensemble opened up soon to a...
La Cetra (conductor Andrea Marcon)
ENSEMBLES The name of the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel is borrowed from Antonio Vivaldi’s violin concerto op. 9 La Cetra – the lyre. It stands for the orchestra’s core repertoire, the Italian instrumental music of the 18th century. In addition to concertante...
Luca TITTOTO
BASSO Luca Tittoto was born in Asolo and made his debut in 2006 as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte. He has appeared in Vienna, Munich, Salzburg, Milan, Roma, Berlin, Naples, Venice, Paris, Aix en Provence, Bruxelles, Moscow with conductor such as M.W.Chung,...
LES PALADINS (conductor Jérôme Correas)
ENSEMBLES In 1760 Jean-Philippe Rameau composed Les Paladins, the last masterpiece of the French Baroque spirit, written under the sign of fantasy and imagination. It is in this spirit that Jérôme Correas founded Les Paladins in 2001, a baroque orchestra with which he...
mdi ensemble
ENSEMBLES Sonia Formenti flute Paolo Casiraghi clarinet Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi violin Paolo Fumagalli viola Giorgio Casati cello Luca Ieracitano piano mdi ensemble was formed in Milan in 2002 and has been artist-in residence at festival di Milano Musica from 2012 to...
Giulio BIDDAU
PIANO Giulio Biddau, born in Cagliari, studied with Arlette Giangrandi Eggmann and graduated in piano at the Conservatory of his city. He furthered his studies in Paris with Jean-Marc Luisada at the École Normale and later with Aldo Ciccolini and Dominique Merlet. He...
Andrè GALLO
PIANO A pupil of Franco Scala at the Accademia Pianistica di Imola, where he currently is a teacher and Vice President. André Gallo gives solo and chamber music concerts. Bryce Morrison, of Gramophone Magazine, describes him as "a masterful pianist with a bold and...
Francesco NICOLOSI
PIANO Francesco Nicolosi graduated with honours when very young and then moved to Napoli to study with Vincenzo Vitale becoming one his last students. In 1980 he won the International Piano Competition in Santander and the second prize at the International Musical...
Martha NOGUERA
PIANO Martha Noguera was born in Buenos Aires into an Italian family and graduated from the National Conservatory of Music 'Carlos López Buchardo' obtaining first prize and a gold medal. She studied with Ilona Kabos, Louis La Via and Eugenio Bures. She has received...
Orli SHAHAM
PIANO A consummate musician recognized for her grace, subtlety and vitality, Orli Shaham has established an impressive international reputation as one of today’s most gifted pianists. Hailed by critics on four continents, Ms. Shaham is in demand for her prodigious...
TCHAKERIAN / PROSSEDA (violino e pianoforte)
DUO
Maria Grazia AMORUSO
ORGAN Maria Grazia Amoruso is a pianist and organist. Her repertoire ranges from Frescobaldi and Bach to modern composer such as Dallapiccola and Castiglioni. She received awards from national and international competitions including the Schubert Competition and...
Mario CAROLI
FLUTE Mario Caroli started the flute at the age of 14 and he got his soloist diploma at the age of 19. He was awarded, when he was 22 years old, the “Kranichsteiner Musikpreis” at Darmstadt. He has since enjoyed a highly successful solo career as one of the most...
Roberto FABBRICIANI
FLUTE Roberto FABBRICIANI begins his musical studies under the guidance of Maestro Mario Gordigiani and improved them with Severino Gazzelloni. He studied composition with Camillo Togni. Very young, he was a member of the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and of...
Juanjo MOSALINI
BANDONEÒN Hailing from the bandoneon tradition, JUANJO MOSALINI is today busy developing every facet of his instrument in ensembles that perpetuate Argentina’s greatest musical form. Yet he is first and foremost a passionate interpreter of the seminal composers of the...
Sonig TCHAKERIAN
VIOLIN Armenian-born violinist Sonig Tchakerian spent her childhood in Aleppo where she began studying violin with her father. After moving to Italy, she studied with maestros such as Salvatore Accardo, Giovanni Guglielmo, Franco Gulli and Nathan Milstein. A...
FINE ARTS QUARTET
QUARTET The Fine Arts Quartet, “one of the gold-plated names in chamber music” (Washington Post), ranks among the most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive legacy of over 200 recorded works....
THE SMITH QUARTET
QUARTET Ian Humphries, Rick Koster, violin Nic Pendlebury, viola Deirdre Cooper, cello Now into its third decade, the Smith Quartet remains at the leading edge of the new music world. A champion of the works of the world’s most celebrated composers, commissioning over...
VENETHOS ENSEMBLE
QUARTET VenEthos Ensemble was founded by Giacomo Catana, Mauro Spinazzè, violins, Francesco Lovato viola, Massimo Raccanelli, cello, four musicians linked not only by a deep friendship but also by a common desire to propose a new interpretation - on period...
Flavio CUCCHI
GUITAR Flavio Cucchi started his studies in Firenze and gave his first concerts when he was 8. During high school he experimented different musical genres and worked with various avant-garde groups and folk music artists. He recorded for RCA and Fonit Cetra. Then he...
Michele MARELLI
CLARINET Michele Marelli, who holds a major in clarinet with highest honors “Summa cum laude” from the Conservatory of Alessandria under the guidance of Prof. Giacomo Soave, and a degree in Modern Literature from the University of Turin with a thesis on Stockhausen,...
About Us
Studio Cogliolo was founded in the late 1970s on the initiative of Ornella Cogliolo to promote contemporary classical music. The Studio has collaborated with composers such as Sylvano Bussotti, Paolo Renosto, Marcello Panni and Giacinto Scelsi, and then represented young musicians, chamber music groups, soloists and conductors, including Dorothy Dorrow, Marjorie Wright, Alexis Weissenberg and Giuseppe Sinopoli.