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...
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...
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...
CONDUCTOR Andrea De Carlo founded the Ensemble Mare Nostrum in 2005, with which he recorded J. S. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein for MA Recordings, winning the Découverte Prize; he conducted Le concert des violes, recorded for Ricercar-Outhere Music awarded 5 Diapason and Coup...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...