Il corpo docenti è formato per la maggior parte da docenti della SUM e della SMUS che hanno dimostrato di possedere le specifiche competenze per lavorare con questa tipologia di studenti e che possono garantire, segnatamente nel caso della SUM, la necessaria regolarità e cadenza dell'insegnamento. Non esiste comunque nessun automatismo, data l'autonomia anche contrattuale del Pre-College.
Graduated with maximum mark at the “G.Verdi” Conservatory in Milan with Professor Esposito, he took part from 1992 to 2000 to the study group “Ottorino Respighi” that is branch of the Cini Foundation in Venice, directed by Professor Bagnoli, and he improved himself.
In 1990 he made his debut as solo in Milan (Sala Verdi), performing the Ravel’s “concert in sol” with the RAI Symphonic Orchestra of Milan directed by Vladimir Delman.
From that moment he took concerts both as solo and chamber musician in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Korea, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, USA, Canada and Egypt, performing with very important musicians such as Bruno Giuranna, Mario Ancilotti, Roger Bobo, Joseph Alessi, Martin Hacklemann, Allen Vizzuti, Philip Smith, Alain Trudel and Velvet M.Brown.
He won a lot of international Chamber Music Contests: First Prize in the International Contest of Chamber Music in Trapani and Special Prize for the Romantic Sonata, Second Prize in Paris (UFAM), Second Prize at the Trio Contest in Trieste and C.A.I. Prize as Best European Duo, Tina Moroni Prize at the Contest “Vittorio Gui” in Florence, New Careers CIDIM (Rome) and Second Prize at V.Bucchi in Rome.
From 1992 to 1996 he was member of the European Youth Orchestra (E.C.Y.O.). He taped for the magazines Amadeus, Sax Record, Rivo Alto, Ediclass, Rainbow and Cristal, and he taped for Rai radio (Rome), SSDRS in Zurich, Radio France, RNE Madrid, Deutschland Radio Berlin and BBC in London. He cooperated as piano player at the Guebwiller Contest (France), Vittorio Veneto and the international courses of the Chigiana Academy and the Trumpet Academy in Bremen (Germany). In 2005 he obtained the “Franco Gulli” International Prize of Chamber Music at the “Europa Musica” Association in Rome.
He is piano player in the singing section of Prof. Luisa Castellani, in the violin section of Valery Gradov and in the viola section of Prof. Bruno Giuranna at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.
Leonardo Bartelloni was born in Camaiore (Lu) – Italy.
He gratuated from the “Luigi Boccherini” Musical Institute – Lucca with magna cum laudeand honor mention, under the direction of Rossana Bottai.
He continued his studies at the “Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento musicale” in Saluzzo (Cu) – Italy, where from 1989 to 1994 he taught piano and chamber music.
He won many National and International piano competitions, as a soloist as well as in different chamber music groups, like “Città di Stresa” (solo and four hands), the Italian Pianists Cup – Osimo, in 1982 and again in 1984, the Albenga Piano Competition, the First Absolute Prize in the 1985 “Muzio Clementi” Piano Competition – Florence.
He also won the First Prize at the “Ugo Conta” Competition in Mantova with violin duo, the special prize for duo at the Vittorio Veneto Competition and the second Prize with special mention at the “Vittorio Gui” International Competition – Florence, where he also won the public and critics prize.
He regularly performs as a soloist and in chamber music groups, playing with musicians of international acclaim as Uto Ughi, Pierre Amoyal, Massimo Quarta, Mario Ancillotti, Cristiano Rossi, Andrea Griminelli and others.
He has been invited by important concert associations (Società dei Concerti - Milan, Amici della Musica - Florence, Musica Riva, Festival Pontino, Gstaad Festival) and he has performed in many tourneès in France, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Turkey.
In 1997 he performed a concert tour in the USA, playing in cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia; after that he was invited by Cidim to play in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
In 2000 he performed in South Korea and Japan, where in 2001 he was invited as a soloist and also with various chamber music groups. He has appeared on both radio stations and private and National Televisions. In addition, he has also recorded many CDs. He has performed Mozart and Chopin in concerts as a soloist with different orchestras.
He is a Professor in many seminars and courses like Sermoneta and Musical Academy “Chigiana” in Siena.
Pavel Berman attracted the international attention when he won the First Prize and Gold Medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1990.
Pavel Berman was born in Moscow where he studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and in 1992 he moved on to study with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York and with Isaac Stern.
Berman has appeared as a soloist and/or conductor with such orchestras as Italian Virtuosi, Moscow Virtuosi, Mantua Chamber Orchestra, Haydn and Bolzano Orchestra, Toscanini Symphony of Parma, Verona Symphony Orchestra, Genoa Theatre Orchestra, Orchestra RAI of Turin, La Fenice Orchestra of Venice, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philarmonie Orchestra, Prague Symphony, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Portuguese National Symphony Orchestra, Liverpool Royal Philharmonic, Lisboa Theatre, Wurtembergische Philharmonie Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Berliner Symphoniker, Vilnius Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Beijing Philharmonic, etc.
Pavel Berman has reached audiences at the Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Herkulessaal in Munich, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Bunkakaikan in Tokyo, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and others.
He founded the Kaunas Chamber Orchestra in Lithuania in 1998, which became Symphony Orchestra and was Musical Director of the “Kaunas Symphony Orchestra”.
Berman has recorded for Koch International, Audiofon, Discover, Phoenix Classics and Dynamic.
He teaches at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano and performs on the Antonio Stradivari violin, Cremona 1702 ‘ex David Oistrach’ lent to him by the Pro Canale Foundation, Milan.
Monica Cattarossi’s early musical training began in Treviso, her home town. She then studied piano at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, completing her diploma with distinction.
Master courses with Jacques Rouvier (Paris) and Konstantin Bogino (Portogruaro) rounded out her artistic development. After further study with Andrea Lucchesini in Florence, she received her soloist diploma from the Conservatorio Claudio Monteverdi in Cremona in 2010 (Summa cum laude). For her dissertation in Musicology in 2006 in Cremona she also received the highest rank.
Monica Cattarossi early discovered her predilection for chamber music, and, in a wide-ranged concert activity as soloist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, she is a favoured partner of many distinguished artists. She performs since 2005 with the italian cellist Enrico Dindo and she is often invited to perform at festivals, e.g. the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Seoul, Radio France-Montpellier, Festival S. Riquier, Allegretto Albania, the Malta Arts Festival, the Kronberg Cello-Festival, the Asiago-Festival, the Festival delle Nazioni, Ohrid.
She plays concerts nationally and internationally, having performed, for example, in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Kuhmo Hall in Seoul, Kitara Hall in Sapporo, Beethoven-Saal in Vienna, La Pergola in Florence, Hubertussaal in München, Sala Verdi in Milan; among her partners: Julius Berger, Rocco Filippini, Dora Schwarzberg, Jing Zhao.
She enjoys associations with many orchestras, such as Sinfonica “G. Verdi” Orchestra and “Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milano.
Apart from performing, Monica Cattarossi holds a teaching position at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano; she is visiting professor in chamber music at Federico Ghedini Conservatory in Cuneo.
Numerous recordings and radio programs for RAI and for Radio France complete the list of her many achievements.
He was born in Mendrisio in 1962, he started his guitar studies with Dante Brenna in Lugano. He attended the classes of Alexandre Rodrigues in the Conservatoire Cantonal of Sion. In 1986 he passed the instrumental diploma and in 1991 the virtuosity instrumental diploma with a high grade. He studied several courses under Alberto Ponce in Switzerland and Portugal.
He plays both as a soloist and with a group (camera). He belongs to the “Torres Quartet” with whom he has performed TV and discography productions. With this well knowned “ensemble” he has performed in various European and Intercontinental countries. He has recently joined the new “Aries4” which favours South American musical compositions. He thaught the guitar at the Conservatoire of Sion from 1987 to 1998. At present he is teaching at “Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana” both in the professional division and in the school of music.
He teaches instrumental music at the “Liceo Cantonale Ticinese”. At this same school he is also taking care of the formation of the orchestra of the Liceo of Bellinzona and the Liceo of Locarno. Hi is a member of the “Amici della chitarra” (friends of the guitar), Association which is promoting the culture and the practice of the guitar in the Canton Ticino.
Andrea Conenna was born in Milano.
In 1989 he graduated in pianoforte with highest marks.
He then was guided by internationally recognized methodology teachers and concert performers such as Boris Petrushanski, Paul Badura Skoda and Bruno Canino. Under the guidance of Konstantin Bogino he studied three years at the Academy of Portogruaro and afterwards he received his Master of Arts in Music Performance with first class honours degree at the Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana under the guidance of Nora Doallo.
He was awarded prizes in several competitions, both as a soloist and a chamber music performer.
Since 1989 he has played with various chamber music groups, mainly as a soloist, both in Italy and abroad.
He received his Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy with honours at the Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana under the guidance of Roberto Braccini, and then he obtained a four-year Diploma in Teaching Methodology, with highest marks, at the Conservatorio di Musica di Como.
From 1991 to 2006 he tought "pianoforte principale" at the Scuola Comunale di Musica di Desio(Mi) where he also held the position of deputy Headmaster.
Since 2006 he has been teaching pianoforte at the School of Music of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana. Since 2009 he has been teaching also in the Pre-College Department.
In May 2011 he became lecturer of piano didactics at the University of Music.
He was born in Milan in 1964 and studied under Carlo Vidusso, Alberto Mozzati and Paolo Bordoni at the "G.Verdi" Conservatory in Milan, where he graduated with honors at eighteen. He took master classes with Maria Tipo at the Geneva Conservatory where he received the "Perfectionnement" and "Premier Prix de Virtuositè" diplomas in 1989. He also graduated in Composition at the Milan Conservatory under Renato Dionisi and Bruno Zanolini.
At the age of fifteen he won the 2. prize at the Maria Canals Ars Nova International Piano Competition in Barcelona (Spain) and at sixteen made his debut performing the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto n.2 with the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra at Sala Verdi in Milan.
Later he performed for major societies in celebrated European musical centers (Como Autunno Musicale, Midem in Cannes, Ami in Milan, Lyceum in Florence, Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Salle Paderevsky in Lausanne, Liszt Hall in Budapest etc.) recording for Radios and Televisions in France (TV5, Radio France), Italy (Rai3), Switzerland (RTSI, RSR, DRS) and USA (Radio Konc).
He has been a guest artist with prestigious orchestras such as Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Angelicum di Milano and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra. With the Maggio Musicale Orchestra he performed at the Teatro La Pergola in Florence at the Maggio Musicale Festival for the Mozart Bicentennial in 1991.
In 1992 he made his debut in the USA at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Phoenix (Az) performing the Brahms Piano Concerto n.2 with the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra where he was invited again during the 1993, 1996 and 2002 musical seasons playing Beethoven, Saint Saëns and Schumann Concertos.
In addition to the solo activity, he is a celebrated chamber musician. He has performed with famous european musicians like Francesco De Angelis, Stefan Schilli, Rex Martin. With the flutists Bruno Grossi and Maxence Larrieu he has recorded, for Iris Suono, a live cd dedicated to the 19th century flute repertoire and with the trumpeter Francesco Tamiati he has recently recorded for Sky Classica Television.
Since 1985 he has been Piano Professor in the Milano, Parma, Pesaro and Alessandria Conservatories. He is presently Piano Professor at the "A.Buzzolla" Conservatory in Adria (I) and teachs "Tecnica dell'accompagnamento e della collaborazione al Pianoforte" at the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato "G.Puccini" in Gallarate (I).
Since 1993 he is piano accompanist at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.
Sandro D’Onofrio is an Italian pianist among the most appreciated in the international music scene. Formed with Eke Mendez and Nora Doallo, students of the school of Vincenzo Scaramuzza in Buenos Aires. It is perfected later with Jakob Gimpel in Los Ángeles and Eduardo Vercelli in Geneva and again later with Aldo Ciccolini, Alexis Weissenberg and Maria Joao Pires. At the same time he became passionate about the chamber repertoire thanks to the meeting with Sándor Vegh and Alberto Lysy who invites him to collaborate with his comrade in the context of the foundation "Yehudi Menuhin" recognizing him great esteem artistic. He later studied with Bruno Giuranna and Riccardo Brengola attaining the chamber music diploma at the academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
He has played as a soloist in various chamber formations in all of Europe, the United States, The Far East and Latin America by making numerous recordings on disks.
He has been living for years in Lugano where he teaches at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana. He has an intense concert activity and holds several piano Master Classes.
Since the spring of 2016 he performs in the theater with the Italian actor Giuseppe Cederna in the play "Mozart. Ritratto di un genio", inspired by the biography of Wolfgang Hildesheimer "Mozart".
Sandro D’Onofrio has indeed dedicated a passionate and in depth study of the composer from Salzburg.
His interpretation is constantly a great success with the public and critics.
Enrico Fagone is the Principal Double-bass soloist of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. He graduated cum laude at the conservatory ‘Giuseppe Nicolini’ of Piacenza (Italy) with Mº Leonardo Colonna and completed his studies with internationally renowned masters including among others Mark Dorin, Franco Petracchi and Klaus Stoll (former Double-bass soloist of the Berliner Philharmoniker). Since his childhood, he won important national and international double-bass competitions: Competiton for string instruments «Inner Wheel» ,Competiton for string instruments «Rotary Club» , Competiton for string instruments «Francesco Dal Pozzo», Double bass Competition «Werther Benzi», and 2°price at International Competition for string instruments TIM (Torneo Internazionale Musicale).
He also won the double-bass open competition organized by the theatre Teatro Regio di Torino and open competition for the first double bass soloist of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
He worked with prestigious chamber groups and orchestras like: Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala di Milano, Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, I Solisti Veneti, ecc.
He was featured as a soloist with piano, chamber ensemble and orchestra in the main concert seasons in Italy and abroad (e.g. the Martha Argerich Festival), where he works with artists such as Martha Argerich, Heinze Holliger, Mischa Maisky, Boris Belkin, Dora Schwarzberg, Sergey Krilov, Alexander Lonquich, Trio di Parma, Fernando Suarez-Paz (violinista di Astor Piazzolla) and others.
Furthermore, he is the double bass player of the "Quintetto Bislacco" and the "Filarmonici di Busseto".
He did radio and TV recordings for broadcasts RAI(I), RADIO 3, RSI (CH) and recorded as soloist for NBB Records and the prestigious record label London EMI.
His most recent discography as a soloist is a recording of the music of Giovanni Bottesini accompanied by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana for Stradivarius Label. During the summer of 2007 he was the award-winning of the Carlo Capriata price for young talented double-bassists.
He regularly holds courses and master classes in many countries.
His passion for the instrument and the pedagogy lead hit to focus on the practice and the professional implementing of the two main bow techniques for the double bass, so called ‘french bow’ and ‘german bow’.
Enrico Fagone plays a ‘pear shape’ double bass of the Italian luthier Pietro Pallotta (1743-1817).
Rino Ghiretti, born in 1965 at Pieve di Cadore (Belluno) began his musical studies at nine years of age in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, continuing at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Music in Milan, Italy from 1979 to 1984 with M° Bruno Ferrari. He has played in many important orchestras such as the Berliner Philarmoniker, Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala di Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra A. Toscanini di Parma, Orchestra Filarmonica Toscanini di Parma, Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana, Orchestra Symphonica Toscanini, Orchestra de „I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano“, Orchestra di Stato Cluj Romania, Orchestra della Suisse Romande di Ginevra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano, Orchestra G. Cantelli di Milano ed Orchestra G. Verdi Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo. He ha salso played with many well known conductors, such as R. Muti, C. Abbado, L. Maazel, D. Ziman, S. Rattle, G. Pretre, Z. Mehta, R. G. De Burgos, W. Sawallisch, Ghierghiev, G. Patanè, G. Bertini, A. Lombard, S. Baudo, R. Chailly, C. Kleiber, M. Rostropovic, and many others.
He also has extensive experience in the fields of pop and jazz music, playing with well known singers such as Mina, Ray Charles, Max Roach, Dave Brubeck, Dianne Reeves, Maynard Ferguson. Furthermore he belongs to the Gruppo di Ottoni of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, to the Italian Quintetto di Ottoni and to the Italian Ensemble di Ottoni.
He teaches in master classes such as the Big Brass Festival in Torino with famous teachers such as J. Gourly, A. Icov, F. Meels and M. Becquet.
He presently teaches at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland and the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Music in Torino, Italy. He performs regularly with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and the Symphonic Orchestra Toscanini.
A native of Israel, his main teachers include Atar Arad and Anna Rasnovsky.
Gotlibovich holds first prizes in National and International Competitions, among them: First Prize and the Fridolin Rusch award at the 8th “international Lionel Tertis Viola Competition”, first prize at the 2004 “Aviv” Competitions in Israel and the 2004 American “Fischoff” Chamber Music Competition as a member of Trio di Colore.
Gotlibovich´s concert activities span through Europe, United States and Israel. He has played as soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble, Texas Festival Orchestra and the Ostrobothnian chamber orchestra . He Collaborated in Chamber Music with world renowned artists such as: Menachem Pressler, Marc Andre Haemlin, George Pludmahcer, Nubuko Imai, Janos Starker among others. His concerts can be heard worldwide on networks BBC in the U.K, CBC in Canada, IBA in Israel, FRA in France, Deutschlandfunk in Germany and NPR in the United States.
He has appeared in recital in such venues as: Wigmore Hall in London, and the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Live music for the 1919 movie ¨The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari¨ by Gotlibovich for viola and cello duo had been premiered in Festival ¨Are More¨ in Vigo, Spain, Last year and is future to be performed in the Haifa International Film Festival among various venues in Israel and abroad.
He is a regular guest at festivals and summer courses such as Kuhmo in Finland, Roundtp in Texas, Giverny and Villefavard in France and the world viola congresses.
An album titled “Chamber Music of Jean Francai”x, had been released lately on xxi productions, featuring a premiere recording of the original version of Rahpsodie for viola and piano (1946) and trio for Clarinet, viola and piano.
He has worked with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Ensemble Callisto in Chicago, ICTUS in Brussels, 216BCN in Barcelona and 21 in Israel; and with Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki , Henri Deutilleux, György Kurtág and Sofia Gubaidulina. Composers Alexandre Eisenberg and Justin Merritt have written Concertos for the Viola that were dedicated and Premiered by Gotlibovich.
Gotlibovich had been the youngest Professor on the faculty of Indiana University from 2004 to 2008. He is join the faculty of Escuela Sperior de Musica Reina Sofia as assistant Pofessor to Diemut Poppen and he is Professor in Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana - Scuola universitaria di Musica, Lugano.
Mauro Harsch was born in Lugano and completed his musical studies in Venice and Milan. He studied with, among others, C. Vitalini, N. Méndez and M. C. Salomon.
His performances and recordings - distributed in Europe, Australia and the United States - have received unanimous acclaim from audiences and critics. His Mozart interpretations are particularly praised: "Harsch's Mozart intensely expresses the sense of beauty, that Mozart beauty which is actually much more complex than one can imagine" (Yukiko Kano, YTC, Japan); "In Mozart, his elegant pianism expresses both the happiness of a child and the profound talent of a wise man" (JRL, USA). "Every performer tries to translate his feelings and ideas into sounds, but only when these vibrations touch our souls - as in this case - do we find ourselves before a true artist" (N. Galantha, PianoForum).
Since 1987, he has taught piano and chamber music at the University of Music of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana. Numerous of his students have distinguished themselves in international competitions and perform in concerts and teaching activities.
He has recently signed an exclusive contract with Idagio and received important awards in the context of record productions dedicated to the work of Fryderyk Chopin.
In 2012 he created Il Villaggio della Musica in Sobrio (Valle Leventina), an international meeting centre where students, young musicians and established artists work on research in the artistic and pedagogical fields through innovative projects. The Village hosts master classes, courses, competitions and the Sobrio Festival - dedicated to solo recitals and chamber music - which takes place from the beginning of July to mid-October. The initiative also extends the students' artistic activities in the field of audiovisual and multimedia communication. The beauty of the location, the quality of the events on offer and the uniqueness of the project continue to attract more and more young talents and artists of international calibre to Sobrio, including members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Here too, Mauro Harsch regularly holds master classes (www.sobriofestival.com).
The director Cristian Tudor Jurgiu chose Mozart's Variations K. 265, performed by Mauro Harsch, as the soundtrack for the concluding part of the film 'Cainele japonez', which was presented and won awards at various international film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, the Warsaw International Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art-Film Society in New York, the Cleveland International Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Mauro Harsch is frequently invited as a jury member to various international piano competitions.
Student Recitals: https://www.youtube.com/arsdeiproductions/videos
Expert critics describe Hana Kotkovà as an excellent proponent of the famous Czech violin tradition. Her first featured appearance on the Czech musical scene was in 1997 when she won the Prague Spring International Violin Competition. She has graduated at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts and continued her music education with renewed teachers Josef Gingold in Greensboro, U.S. and Alberto Lysy at the Yehudi Menuhin International Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland. Hana Kotkova lives permanently in Switzerland, where most of her musical activity now takes place. She has recorded the complete Eugène Ysaÿe violin sonatas for the Swiss television, gave master classes at Rencontres musicales in Blonay and took part in the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano. She has toured in Europe as well as in the United States with Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy and she gives recitals, often with the British pianist Simon Mulligan. In her native country, she has performed in prominent festivals. Since 2003 she has regulary performed at the Ostrava Days Festival, performing violin concertos by many contemporary composers (Feldman, Ligeti, Rihm, Francesconi and others). She performed Ligeti`s Violin Concerto at the Lincoln Center, New York and made her debut at Carnegie Hall with Francesconi`s Violin Concerto. In November 2012, Hana Kotkovà performed the US premiere of Morton Feldman`s Violin and Orchestra as part of Byond Cage Festival at Lincoln Centre. She is leading her Kotkova Ensemble, with which she performed in Milano and Torino at the MITO Settembre musica festival and with which she is working on multimedia projects. With Iva Bittova she appeared this year at Sydney Festival. Hana Kotkovà plays a precious Italian Ferdinando Gagliano violin from 1775 and a modern instrument made for her in 1996 by the renewed Prague luthier Jan B. Spidlen.
The bassoonist and conductor Gabor Meszaros is professor at the University of Music of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano (Switzerland) and solo bassoon of the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden.
At 26 years of age, he won the position of principal bassoonist in the Balearic Symphonic Orchestra. He also performed in other symphony orchestras in Switzerland, Spain and Germany.
Different national and international music competitions regularly invite him to be a member of the jury. Besides his teaching activities at the University of Music, he has held masterclasses in Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, China, Korea and Switzerland.
His students have won awards at national and international music competitions and are members of different orchestras.
An important part of his activity at the University of Music includes concerts of the wind ensemble that he conducts and in which he transmits to the new generations his wide experience in chamber music.
His CD Music for Bassoon and Piano – “France” was reviewed very positively by critics.
He is Artistic Director of the international music Festival TICINO MUSICA which gathers every year over 300 artists from all over the world.
Born in Cremona 1970 graduated in organ, organ and harpsichord. In addition he took a degree (with maximum marks) in musicology at Cremona University submitting a thesis on Olivier Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur.
He pursued his studies with Kooiman, Stembridge, Vogel and Tagliavini, supplementing this by taking master classes with M. Radulescu at the Hochschule für Musik of Vienna in Vienna between 1996 and 1999. He collaborated with Radulescu on the basso continuo) at the Acadèmie Bach in Porrentruy (Switzerland). He was awarded first prize at the International Organ Competition of Pasian di Prato (Udine), and at the Concorso Nazionale Città di Viterbo. He was also a prize-winner at several other national and international competitions, including Brugge (Belgium) and the prestigious Paul Hofhaimer of Innsbruck . He then completed his training in the field of ensemble music and conducting with Pierangelo Gelmini and Andrea Marcon.
Both as soloist and continuo player, Molardi is an active performer and has concretized at major music festivals in Italy (Musica e Poesia in S. Maurizio, Teatro La Fenice, Venice) and other European countries (Amsterdam, Conzertgebow, Utrecht, Rotterdam, London Barbican Centre), as well as in the U.S.A. (Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall, Boston Jordan Hall, New York Carnagie Hall), Brasil (Sala Sao Paulo). Molardi teaches organ, harpsichord and chamber music at the University School of Music in Lugano (Schwitzerland). Masterclasses and conferences on Baroque Music in Schwitzerland, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Spain.
Stefano Molardi has a full concert schedule, appearing at numerous national and international festivals, both in Italy and in other European countries, International Festival of Payerne (Switzerland); Wiener Orgelkonzerte (Austria); Europäische Orgelmusik Nürnberg, "C. Monteverdi" Cremona Festival, Treviso Festival, "Musica e Poesia in S, Maurizio", Milan, International Festival of Maastricht , Arnstadt, Gräfenhain, Magadino and other.
From 2005 to 2013 Molardi, conducts the ensemble " I Virtuosi delle Muse”, devoted to the performance and the rediscovery of the vocal and the instrumental music, especially the Italian one of the 17th and 18th century, which he himself founded and with which he has toured important festivals of early music. As conductor he performed: the Opera Ademira of Lucchesi (Bibbiena, Italy December 2006), Mitridate of Porpora (Theatre of Valladolid, Spain, March 2007), Bach’s S. Matthew Passion and S. John’s Passion (S. Cristoforo’s church, Ferrara, April 2007), Magnificat (Ferrara, S. Giorgio church), Farnace and Giustino of Vivaldi (Vienna Theater an der Wien and Paris, Theatre Champs-Elysées) concerts in Bilbao, Vienna (Theater an der Wien), Oldenburg, Cremona (Festival Monteverdi), Rheingau, Nantes, Orléans, Munchen, Innsbruck, Paris, Schwetzingen, Montpellier, Venice, Miami, Istanbul and other.
He has recorded for Christophorus, Tactus, Divox, Deutsch Grammophon. For his latest recordings, Molardi has obtained many positive reactions from music critics (Amadeus, Early Music) and important international awards (5 “diapasons” from the French journal, 5 stars Goldberg).
He played in 2008 and 2009 in Lugano the complete organ works of C. Franck and F. Liszt. He recorded in 2013 the complete organ works of J. S. Bach, in 15 CDs for the label Brilliant-Classics, on historical organs in Germany
Lello Narcisi graduated in flute with full marks in Italy and Switzerland, studying with A. Ragno, M. Ancillotti and A. Oliva.
From a young age he began teaching flute and chamber music, as well as performing regularly in Italy and abroad as a soloist and above all as a keen chamber musician. In this context, he had the privilege of collaborating with internationally reknowned musicians and principal players of prestigious orchestras and chamber groups including: Berliner Philharmoniker, La Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Concertgebouw, Il Giardino Armonico etc.
In 2011 he has won the audition as flute teacher at the PreCollege of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana and since 2015 he has been assistant professor of M° Andrea Oliva in the Bachelor and Master courses. Together with M° Vincenzo Scarafile he has created "Flute In Canto", a practical study method about all aspects of vocality in direct relation with the sound of the flute.
He regularly collaborates as principal flautist with Colibrì Ensemble, Pescara and cofounded the International Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Switzerland with M° Fausto Corbo.
Lello currently plays an artisanal instrument unique in the world, a beautiful all14K gold SavoldiMateki flute.
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Roberto Plano, former permanent associate professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, has extensive teaching experience, having taught at other prestigious institutions such as Boston University. Winner of first prizes in a number of internationally renowned competitions including first prize in the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2001, winner of the American Prize in 2018, finalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005, and graduate of the Honens Competition in 2003. He has performed in some of the world's most prestigious venues, also appearing as soloist with leading orchestras and great conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, James Conlon, Pinchas Zuckerman.
Lorenza Pollini, born in Verona, Italy, graduated in 1983 from the Dall’Abaco Conservatory of Verona with a degree in Harp, having studied with Mirella Vita.
In 1983, ’84, ’85 she attended Master Classes in France with Pierre Jamet, in 1984 with Giovanna Verda and in 1987 with Silvie Beltrando.
In 1990 she received the Konzertreife Diplom from the Academy of Music of Basel, a student of Ursula Holliger.
After winning first prizes at the "Città di Stresa" and "Città di Porcia" International Contests, she began her career specializing in chamber music and solo concerts.
In 2001 Lorenza Pollini attended the Didactics of Harp Master Class with Gabriella Bosio. From 2001 to 2004 she attended the three-year experimental course of Baroque Harp at the Conservatory of Verona.
She is active in the Celtic harp universe too, attending traditional Breton, Scottish and Irish music Master Classes with D. Bouchaud, Enrico Euron, Grainne Hambly, Catriona MacKay, Catherine Rhatigan and Paul Dooley.
Lorenza has recorded many CDs as soloist and with different ensembles, often personally arranging the music.
In 2008 she received a Masters Academic degree of Music Therapy from the Dall’Abaco Conservatory of Verona.
As far as orchestral activity is concerned, she has been the first harpist with the Youth Orchestra of the European Countries, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Michigan, the Orchestra Sinfonica of San Remo, the Angelicum of Milan, the Orchestra Filarmonica of Tirreno and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. She is currently harpist with the Arena of Verona Orchestra (from 1986).
After having taught at the Conservatories of Castelfranco Veneto and Brescia, since 1986 she teaches at the Conservatory of Southern Switzerland (CSI) of Lugano, Switzerland, a part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.
Born in 1965, Massimo Quarta began his musical studies at age of nine and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Honourable Mention from the "St.Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome as a student of Beatrice Antonioni. He subsequently studied with Salvatore Accardo, Pavel Vernikov, Ruggiero Ricci and Abram Stern.
Winner of the most important Italian violin competitions ("Città di Vittorio Veneto 1986 - Concorso "Opera Prima Philips" 1989), in 1991 he won the first prize in the prestigious "Nicoló Paganini International Violin Competition" in Genoa (Italy).
As a result of the extraordinary success achieved from this prize, he started an international career which has taken him to be invited to major concert societies, playing in Paris (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du Châtelet), Munich (Philharmonie im Gasteig), Berlin (Philharmonie), Frankfurt(Alte Oper), Dusseldorf (Tonhalle), Tokyo (Metropolitan Art Space, Bunka Kaikan), Warsaw (Warsaw Philharmonic), Moscow (Great Hall of the Conservatory), Milan (Teatro alla Scala,Societá del Quartetto,Serate Musicali), Rome(Accademia di Santa Cecilia,RAI,Teatro dell'Opera), Firenze(Amici della Musica), Torino (Unione Musicale), Napoli (Teatro San Carlo), Bologna (Teatro Comunale), Cannes (Midem), Zagreb (Lisinski Hall).
Firmly established soon as one of the most brilliant violinists of his generation, he also performed with the Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt, the Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Real Orchestra Sinfonica de Sevilla,the Budapest Symphony Orchestra,playing with conductors like Miun Wun Chung, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Daniel Oren, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Christian Thielemann.
Guest of renowned festivals such as Stresa, Sarasota, Kuhmo, Spoleto, Berliner Festwochen, Bratislava, Kfar-Blum(Israel), Bodensee, Ravenna, Lyon, Naples, Sapporo, Potsdam, alongside his solo career Quarta has an intense chamber music activity, playing with musicians like Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Rocco Filippini, Franco Petracchi, Natalia Gutman, Joseph Silverstein, François Joël Thiollier, Patrick Gallois, Alfons Kontarsky, Karine Georgian, Robert Cohen.
In 1992 he has been awarded of the International Prize "Foyer Des Artistes" and in January 1995 of the "Gino Tani International Prize for Arts and Spectacles".
He is Professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Musikhochschule) in Lugano.
Massimo Quarta recorded for Philips and has appeared several times on television.
He has recorded for Dynamic a CD with music by N. Paganini, the "Four Seasons" by A. Vivaldi with the Moskow Chamber Orchestra for Delos has just concluded the recording of the 6 Niccolò Paganini Violin Concertos with the “Cannone”Guarneri del Gesú violin owned by the great Genovese virtuoso.
He plays the "Marechal Bertier-ex von Vecsey" Antonio Stradivari from 1716.
Danilo Rossi graduated with full distinction in 1985 with and then completed and perfected his studies with Dino Asciolla, Piero Farulli and Yuri Bashmet. At only 20 years-old he was chosen by Riccardo Muti to fulfill the role of first viola solisoist of both the theatrical and philarmonic orchestras of la Scala, so becoming the youngest ever first violista in the history of this world-famous and prestigious Opera House.
It is this role in which we still find him.
Student of some of the most important viola masters (Merlini, Farulli, Asciolla, Bashmet) and getting his diploma with the highest grade (cum laude), Danilo Rossi shown his musical skills already when he was 16, when he won his first International Competition. At 20 he has been chosen to take the part of First Soloist Viola at the prestigious Teatro alla Scala di Milano, becoming the youngest musician of the whole history of the theatre to cover that position. Since that moment his career became an infinity of concerts, festivals, meetings and recitals that brought him all around the world.
During his career as soloist he performed the whole viola repertoire guided by Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Riccardo Chailly, Gianandrea Noseda, Ottavio Dantone, Mung Wung Chung, Seji Ozava, Zubin Mehta, Mario Brunello, Lorin Maazel, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Adam Fischer, with some of the most prestigious orchestras of the world (Filarmonica della Scala, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, l’Orchestra d’Archi Italiana, Rai di Torino, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Regio di Torino, Suddeutchekammerorchester, Filarmonica di Mosca, Kioi Symphony Orchestra di Tokyo, I Solistidi Mosca, Filarmonica di Budapest, Orchestra dellla Svizzera Italiana di Lugano, etc.).
During the last 30 years, covering the role of First Viola at the Teatro alla Scala, he collaborated with some of the best living orchestra conductors, like Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Carlos Kleiber, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Daniel Harding, Gustavo Dudamel, Leonard Bernstein and Daniele Gatti.
Danilo Rossi has also been a practicing chamber musician. Indeed, he has been guest of some of the most relevant Festivals of Chamber Music (ST. Moritz, Cork, Asolo, Ravenna, I Suoni delle Dolomiti, Vicenza, Joliette, Nijny Novgorod, etc.), where he performed with some of the greatest musicians: Paul Tortelier, Jury Baschmet, Pier Narciso Masi, Bruno Canino, Giuliano Carmignola, Mario Brunello, Andrea Lucchesini, Tomas Brandis, Franco Gulli, il Quartetto Arditti, il Fine Arts Quartet, il Nuovo Quartetto Italiano.
In 2018 Danilo Rossi will celebrate a 30-years collaboration with the pianist Stefano Bezziccheri. Together with him, Rossi played in the most important European concert halls, recording many CDs that cover completely the relevant repertoire for viola and piano.
Numerous the radio a tv recordings that have seen Danilo Rossi performing, as well as the 40 CDs published. About this, in 2016 he has been dedicated of five episodes by the well-known radio broadcast RadioTreSuite, owned by RadioRai.
Born in 1980, he graduated in piano at the Musical Institute "Pietro Mascagni" of Livorno with honors. While learning the solo repertoire began his chamber music studying with Maestro Riccardo Cecchetti (member of the Trio Intimae Voices). Numerous performances as soloist, also harpsichordist and chamber musician. He continued his training chamber with Maestro Alessandro Specchi.
Winner of the audition for the Italian Youth Orchestra in 2001, began his concert activity in Italy and abroad as soloist (Concertino premiere of Luis de Pablo for two pianos and string orchestra) in various chamber ensembles and orchestras OGI and Vincenzo Galilei under the direction of Gianandrea Noseda, Gabriele Ferro, Daniele Gatti, David Geringas recording for RAI radio and tv. Furthered his studies at the Academy of Musical Theatre Cinghio of Parma under the guidance of Maestro Alberto Miodini (member of Trio di Parma), recipient of Federal Scholarship for foreign artists, he obtained with honors diplomas in "Interpretation and Performance" under the guidance of Nora Doallo and "Piano Pedagogy" under the guidance of Roberto Braccini at Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana.
Finally he achieved Master of specialization as a soloist under the guidance of Nora Doallo concluding his career with the brilliant performance of the Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra by D. Shostakovich accompanied by the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana - OSI.
From 2005 to 2006 he worked with the orchestra "Luigi Cherubini" directed by maestro Riccardo Muti playing in important addition to participating theaters went on tour that involved the same orchestra for the Ravenna Festival and the Arena in Pula in Croatia under the leadership of Directost Temirkanov and Muti. Also participates in the opening concert of the Italian Film Festival in Rome playing music of Nino Rota.
Since 2006 participated in the concert season of contemporary music "900 and present" for the RSI in collaboration with the Swiss Italian Conservatory of both ensembles and as soloist, performing the great Jazz Symphony of G. Antheil's Piano and Orchestra conducted by Maestro Giorgio Bernasconi. He participated in the Festival Argerich in Lugano as an accompanist of Ivry Gitlis Masterclass and was invited to participate in the Festival "Love The Piano" in collaboration with the International Piano Foundation "Theo Lieven" performing and participating in masterclasses with William Grant Naborè, John Perry and Peter Frankl.
He's member and founder of Trio Degas which has been awarded by Prize "P. Fioretti" in Florence, distinguished itself in many International Competitions and Reviews, getting a large number of awards, as the 1st outright Prizes at: 5th Music Compet. "Riviera Etrusca", 5th European Chamber Music Competition "Vasto", 9th Chamber Competition "Rospigliosi", 12th Music Competition "Città di Grosseto". At the 3rd International Piano & Chamber Music Competition "Città di Pesaro" in 2006 Trio Degas got the highest prize of the whole contest. In 2009, it won the 3rd prize (no 1st) at "G. Bergamo Classic Music Awards 2009 "in Lugano (Switzerland).
In 2010 the Trio Degas gained the 1st Prize at the International Competition "Marco Fiorindo" in Turin and the 2nd Prize (no 1st) at International Competition "Città di Assisi". In October 2011 comes the victory of two awards at the International Chamber Music Competition "Luigi Nono" of Venaria (To), 2nd Prize and Special Prize "Twentieth Century", concerning the performance of the Nino Rota's Clarinet Trio. In June 2012, finally, the trio Gained the 3rd prize at the International Competition "Gaetano Zinetti" in Sanguinetto (VR).
He is currently Artistic Director of Scuola Musicando in Lugano and piano accompanist and professor at Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana.
Leslaw Skorski was born in Poland and studied accordion with Lech Puchnowski at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he graduated in 1984.
He has given concerts in Poland and Switzerland. Since 1989 he has been teaching the accordion class at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana.
From his class came out several accordionists who awarded prizes in important competitions and have brilliant concert careers.
He was invited to be jury member in several accordion competitions.
Monica Trini approached the music since she was a joung girl, studying piano until she reached the “Corso Superiore” (upper level). After the Istituto Magistrale diploma, she began studying singing at the Conservatorio (Academy of Music) G. Verdi in Milan getting a diploma while still very young. In the meantime she took part in the performances of Aida, Turandot, Tannhauser, I Lombardi and Requiem by Verdi with the Teatro alla Scala, joining in the tournées in Vancouver (1986), Berlino (1987), Mosca and Saint Petersburg (1989) under the direction of L. Maazel, G. Gavazzeni, N. Santi, G.Kuhn, C. Abbado and R.Muti. After winning the “Student Prize” of the “Concorso Verdiano di Busseto” (a music contest for students), she improved herself with Carlo Bergonzi, interpreting, at the end of the course, the role of Mimì at the teather of Busseto. She attended the Academy of Montegridolfo directed by Gustav Kuhn and the Specialization Courses conducted by Hildegard Roetger and Hilde Zadec. Furthermore, she also achieved the Certificate of Music Pedagogy and the Singing Specialization Diploma at the “Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana” studying with the Soprano Karin Ott.
She took part to the Madama Butterfly at the Opera in Rome directed by Daniel Oren; to Aida at the Point Teather in Dublin (CD Naxsos) and to Nabucco at the Festival of Avenches with Rico Saccani; for the Attavanti Festival (Maggiore Lake) she sang Zanetto by Mascagni.
She also performed in recitals, at the Teatro delle Erbe in Milan, for the “Società dei Concerti”, interpreting arias by Vivaldi, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Verdi; moreover she was also at the Teatro Greco in Milan, at the Museum of Teatro alla Scala for the “Amici del Loggione” (“the Gallery Friends) with musics by Rossini and the “Duetti Buffi” by Padre Martini in “first performance”; Then at the Teather in Siena, at the Teather Regina in Cattolica, at the Teather in Carpi with Michele Pertusi. At the Teatro Studio of Milan, for the two evening performances of Giorgio Strehler dedicated to the Reading of Wilhem Meister by Goethe, she sang the Lieder Mignon by Schubert and, still in Milan, during the litterary award “A.D.O.N.A.I.” won by the poetress Alda Merini, she sang pieces of H. Pousseur, E. Morricone, Donati and G. Manzoni as a “solo voice”.
She cooperated with pianists as Roberto Negri, Walter Baracchi, Raimondo Campisi, with the guitarist Nicola Oteri, with harpist Anna Loro.
With “Loie Fuller Ensemble” at Palazzo Malvezzi in Bologna, and at the Teatro Ebe Stignani in Imola, she interpreted pieces of Debussy (Chansons de Bilitis) and Ravel (Les Chansons Madecasses). With Orchestra Nuova Cameristica conducted by A. Monetti, she opened the Lago d’Orta Festival with “Les Illuminations” of Britten and, the following year, at Villa Tallone (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli studying residence) she performed songs of Tosti, Debussy, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Ravel and Turina. With the Varese Orchestra and Europae Cantores Choir , directed by Jeffrey George, she performed the Fauré Requiem, the Paukenmesse and the Missa Brevis in Sib Maggiore by Haydn. With the Milan “Orchestra Nuova Cameristica” and the “Polyphonic Choir Benedetto Marcello” and the “Città di Como Choir”, she performed the Vivaldi Gloria, the Schubert Messa in Do Maggiore, the Haydn Missa in Tempore Belli, the Mozart Requiem and Incoronation Mass, the Boccherini Stabat Mater, the Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat mater, the Poulenc Gloria,and the Verdi Messa Requiem. At the Congress Palace in Lugano, with the Novara Orchestra of Teatro Coccia, directed by Aldo Tarchetti, she performed Verdi Duets and Arias in Recitals with the baritone Pietro Cappuccilli, and in Stabat Mater di Pergolesi directed by M° Bruno Amaducci. In Locarno San Francesco Church, with the Orchestra of the “Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana” directed by Denise Fedeli, she sang in the Mass D176 by Schubert, in the Cantata BWV 209 by Bach; moreover, again with the same orchestra and director, she interpreted arias and duets from Otello, La Forza del Destino, il Trovatore by the Teatro Sociale in Chiasso.
She was also present at Auditorio Stelio Molo of RSI in Lugano for the Review “Novecento Passato e Presente” (past and future of twentieth-century) with the “Trois Poemes” by Stephane Mallarmé by M. Ravel and “Offrandes” by E. Varèse.
In Magadino, on the occasion of the evening performance dedicated to Maestro C.F. Semini, she performed the “Tre poemi” by Hermann Hesse, “L’ape”, “Astrakan”, accompanied at the piano by the author (double CD, Carlo Florindo Semini) of whom she interpreted, first in the world, at the Basilica of Loreto (Italia) “Angeli Lauretani” for voice and organ, which was performed again the same year, in Rome,at the Swiss Ambassy, accompanied by the organist A. Macinanti and at the 34th Festival Organistico of Magadino with the American organist James Diaz.
Besides, she held concerts in Holland, Germany, France, Sweden, Greece, Turkey and U.S.A., singing opera pieces of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and pieces of G. Lorca and E. de Falla, in a “duo” accompanied by guitar.
With the Choir and Orchestra Sinfonica G. Verdi of Milan, she sang in Russian “Le Nozze” by Stravinsky (December, 2000 and April 2002), and for the “Stagione Sinfonica” 2004-2005 the C. Orff Carmina Burana, directed by Romano Gandolfi, and for the “Stagione Sinfonica” 2005-2006 the Mozart Requiem Directed by Claus Peter Flor.
She sang again, with great success, “Le nozze”, at the Auditorium della Gran Guardia, for the Fondazione Arena di Verona (arena di Verona Foundation) (December, 2003) and at the Teatro Filarmonico (October 2004) in Verona directed by Marco Faelli; at the Teatro Due in Parma and Castel Sant’Elmo in Napoli, directed by Danilo Grassi (December, 2005).
She opened the twentyfifth edition of Gressoney Music Summer with the “Stabat Mater” by Boccherini (first version of 1781) accompanied by the Solisti of Milan.
On the 25th September 2004, the “Magnifico Ordine delle Antiche Tradizioni Verones” (the magnificent Order of the Veronese Ancient Traditions), conferred her the title of “Nobile Cavaliere” (Noble Knight) as an appreciation of her prominent virtues and sublime merits.
She combines artistic and teaching activities, being Singing teacher in the Pre-College and University of Music of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.
Brunella Clerici carried out her musical studies at Milan’s “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory, graduating in Choral Music and Choral Conducting with M. Bernardino Streito, Composition with M. Niccolò Castiglioni, Piano with M. Vittorio De Col.
In 1984 she completed her high school studies with a pedagogy degree at the Como’s “Istituto Magistrale T. Ciceri” (Institute of Teacher Training).
From ’89 to ’95 she performed in concerts as a pianist as a part of her chamber music studies and interests.
In her post-graduation studies of central importance were the seminars at the Z. Kodaly Academies of Kecskemét (Hu) and Cuneo; other relevant seminars on Choral Conducting held by professors J. Jùrgens, B. Streito, N. Conci.
Since 2001 she teaches and conducts children Choirs at the “Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana”. Currently she conducts the children Choir “Clairière” and coordinates the choral activities as part of the music training program for children from 6 years onwards.
She coordinates the music theory programs ‘Cantar Leggendo’ for children aged 6 to 11.
Since 2003 she teaches the course ‘Didattica delle Voci Bianche’. The course is aimed at Music Education Teachers of the primary schools; it is also designed as a post-graduation course for music professional passionate in Children Choirs conducting. The program theoretical basis is enriched by several training sessions where the trainee have the chance to direct the “Clairière” choir of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana.
In her teaching and conducting experience at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, Brunella Clerici could combine her passion for choral singing with the care for children pedagogy and education. The “Clairière” Choir and the preparatory courses have trained more than 300 children in choral singing. Currently the “Clairière” Choir has 46 singers.
