International Summer Music Masterclass
PRACTICE. HAVE FUN. PLAY.
July 11th – 18th 2020
Ventotene (LT), Italia
“Ambient’Azioni Musicali” was created by a group of young musicians in 2010, the idea of creating a thematic section focused on classical music within the Festival “Ambient’Arti” in Morino, an event that for many years has been realised in the wonderful setting of the Natural Reserve “Zompo lo Schioppo”. For five years the activities of the Campus took place in various locations of the L’Aquila territory, thus giving the opportunity to many students and teachers from all over the world to participate in educational experience of the highest artistic and cultural value. With a significant experience consolidated over the years and the considerable international response that saw an exploit of adhesions in the previous two editions , the Campus is now a tradition in the field of residential music seminars and the summer events of Central Italy.
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2020-07-11
2020-07-18
Europe/Rome
Ambient'azioni Musicali
International Summer Music Masterclass
Ventotene (LT), Italia
Maxima Entropia
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THE TEACHERS
Maria Ronchini
Viola
Biography
Maria Ronchini practices an intense concert activity whether as soloist or in various chamber music formations, devoting herself to learning the different music styles by a vast repertoire from baroque to contemporary period.
She graduated with a first-class degree at the Music Conservatory “G. Verdi”, her native town, winning very young various competition.
She carried on her studies at the W.Stauffer Academy of Cremona with B.Giuranna and at the Chigiana Academy of Siena with Y. Bashmet and Trio di Trieste.
She also took part in masterclasses with W.Christ in Lubecca and K. Kashkashian in Luxembourg.
She played with the prestigious “European Community Youth Orchestra” in London led by C. Abbado, M. Bamert, H. Leinsdorf,V. Ashkenazy playing in the most important theaters around Europe and United States of America.
She made his debut as soloist in Milan, playing the Bartòk Concert with the RAI Orchestra at the Sala Verdi of the Music Conservatory and then she has been performing for many music institutions and societies , such “ Società dei concerti”, “Serate musicali”, Humanitarian Society of Milan, “ Ente triennale” of Cremona, Roman Philarmonic Academy, IUC of Rome, “Amici della musica “ of Florence and Perugia, Philarmonic Society of Trento, “Pietà dei Turchini” of Naples.
She has been invited to take part in several festivals,such as International Festival of Cremona, Festival of the Nations in Città di Castello, Festival of Lugano, Amsterdam, Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, Bad Kissinger Sommer,Festespiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern,Festival of Blonay at the prestigious P. Hindemith Foundation, playing with others important artist such S. Accardo, P.De Maria,E. Dindo, B. Giuranna , V.Repin, M.Sirbu, M. Quarta…
She has been selected by C. Scimone to join the famous chamber group “I Solisti Veneti” with whom she has been touring worldwide.
She is the solo viola of the Solisti di Pavia, United European Chamber Orchestra, as well as of the “Divertimento Ensemble” of Milan with whom she played as soloist at the SFB Radio Berlin, The Biennal of Venice, Villa Reale in Monza, Sala Verdi and Liberty Palace of Milan, Auditorium Paganini of Parma, Ravenna Festival….enriching the Repertoire of his instrument with first execution of works dedicated to her by important composers such Castagnoli, Gorli, Gervasoni, Mosca,Betta, Sugiyama, Franceschini, Pisati and others.
She premeried with the “Pomeriggi Musicali” orchestra of Milan, at the Teatro Dal Verme, ‘Aphrodite’ for solo viola and voice in the Festival KOINE’.
She is Viola teacher at “G. Cantelli” Conservatory of Novara, Italy.
Francesco Dillon
Cello and Chamber Music
Biography
Francesco Dillon (b.Turin, 1973) already has a brilliant international career to his credit, characterised by the originality and variety of the repertoire that he has embraced. As a soloist he has performed on such prestigious concert stages as Teatro alla Scala im Milan, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Herkulessaal of Munich, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Jordan Hall in Boston and the Colon Theatre of Buenos Aires, with such orchestras as the Italian National Radio Orchestra (RAI), the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna, the Orchestra of the Colon Theatre, Ensemble Resonanz,the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra,the Oulu Sinfonia Finland,the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the Tuscany Regional Orchestra (ORT). Most recently he made an acclaimed debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Susanna Mallki.
Having graduated in Florence under the guidance of Andrea Nannoni, he continued his studies with Anner Bijlsma, Mario Brunello, David Geringas and Mstislav Rostropovich, thereafter studying composition with Salvatore Sciarrino.
In 1993 he was one of the founders of the Quartetto Prometeo, a chamber group of international acclaim and winner of numerous prizes (Prague Spring, ARD Munich, Bordeaux) and recently honoured with the Leone d’Argento award of the Biennale Musica of Venice. Dillon is also a stable member of the Alter Ego ensemble which is regularly invited to the major contemporary music festivals around the world. His passion for chamber music has led to performances with musicians such as Irvine Arditti, Mario Brunello, Giuliano Carmignola, Piero Farulli, David Geringas, Veronika Hagen, Alexander Lonquich, Enrico Pace, Jean-Guihen Queyras. The profound interest in contemporary music which he has always cultivated has led to solid collaborations with the major composers of our time: Gavin Bryars, Ivan Fedele, Luca Francesconi, Stefano Gervasoni, Philip Glass, Vinko Globokar, Sofija Gubaidulina, Jonathan Harvey, Toshio Hosokawa, Giya Kancheli, Alexander Knaifel, Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang, Alvin Lucier, Arvo Pärt, Henri Pousseur, Steve Reich, Fausto Romitelli, Kaija Saariaho, Salvatore Sciarrino and with cult experimental musicians such as Matmos, and Pansonic, William Basinsky and John Zorn.
Dillon’s performances have been transmitted by such important broadcasters as the BBC, RAI, ARD, Radio France, ORF, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and WDR.
He has recorded for the ECM label, as well as Sony, Kairos, Ricordi, Stradivarius, Die Schachtel, Mode and Touch. He recently recorded for the first time, Variations by Salvatore Sciarrino which received the Diapason d’0r prize, and Ballata by Giacinto Scelsi, both with the Italian National Radio Orchestra (RAI). As a duo with the pianist Emanuele Torquati, he has brought out three CDs of rare music of Schumann and the complete works for cello by Franz Liszt for Brilliant Classics.
Along with his concert activity there have been teaching experiences in institutions such as the Royal College of London, the Scuola di musica di Fiesole, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow, the Pacific University in California, Untref-Buenos Aires, Manchester University.
From 2010 he has been artistic director of the season of contemporary music Music@villaromana in Florence and from 2019 holds the same position at the Festival “Castelcello” in Brunnenburg (South Tyrol).
Adrian Pinzaru
Violin
Biography
Born in 1974 in Romania, Adrian Pinzaru started studying violin in Iaşi at the Music School “O. Băncila “with Calistrat Catargiu and Natalia Epure continuing his studies in Bucharest at the” G. Enescu ” Music High School. In 1993, thanks to a scholarship, he moved to Italy where, after studying at the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo, he obtained a diploma in violin and viola at the “G. Verdi “in Turin under the guidance of M. Christine Anderson and M. Davide Zaltron. Over the years he studied with Stefan Gheoghiu, Mariana Sirbu, Dora Schwarzberg, Sadao Harada (Tokyo String Quartet), Franco Rossi (The Italian Quartet), Valentin Berlinsky (Borodin Quartet) and Milan Skampa (Quartetto Smetana). From 1997 to 2006 he has been the first violin of the Quartetto Casorati. Since 2006 he is the first violin of the Xenia Ensemble, a group dedicated to the performance of contemporary music.
Since 2007 he is the first violin of the Delian Quartett with which he has an intense international concert activity.
He is regularly invited as a soloist or chamber musician by major concert societies such as:
Musikverein Wienn, Konzerthaus Wienn, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Unione Musicale di Torino, Festival MiTo Settembre Musica, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, Schlezwig-Holstein Musik Festival, Musikfest Bremen, Festival Internacional de Musica de Espinho, Essen Philarmonie, etc. collaborating, in the chamber repertoire, with artists such as Gilles Apap, Measha Brueggergosman, Mario Brunello, Gérard Caussé, José Luis Estellés, Pavel Gililov, Igor Kamenz, Alfredo Perl, Menahem Pressler, Danilo Rossi, Dora Schwarzberg, Giovanni Sollima, Anatol Ugorski and actor Bruno Ganz.
Musikverein Wienn, Konzerthaus Wienn, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Unione Musicale di Torino, Festival MiTo Settembre Musica, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, Schlezwig-Holstein Musik Festival, Musikfest Bremen, Festival Internacional de Musica de Espinho, Essen Philarmonie, etc. collaborating, in the chamber repertoire, with artists such as Gilles Apap, Measha Brueggergosman, Mario Brunello, Gérard Caussé, José Luis Estellés, Pavel Gililov, Igor Kamenz, Alfredo Perl, Menahem Pressler, Danilo Rossi, Dora Schwarzberg, Giovanni Sollima, Anatol Ugorski and actor Bruno Ganz.
He performed for various television and radio broadcasts such as Rai, Radio France, Österreichische Rundfunk (ORF), DR (Danish Radio), Deutschland Funk, HR, SWR, WDR, BR. He recorded regularly for the record company Oehms Classics, with which he published, in 2008, a CD entirely dedicated to Robert Schumann – named “Recommended CD of the month” by Bayerische Rundfunk – and one dedicated to Haydn – who received the nomination for Echo Prize 2010. In 2013 a CD dedicated to Beethoven was published. In 2016, a CD dedicated to Schostakovich was released in co-production with Deutschland Funk and in 2018, again in co-production with Deutschland Funk, the integral of the Arte della Fuga by J. S. Bach.
He is often invited as first violin and first viola by musical institutions such as:
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss, Gran Teatre de Liceu Barcelona, Stadt Kammerorchester Arpeggione, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Symphony Orchestra of Murcia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, I Musici Estensi.
Beside the concert commitment, Adrian Pinzaru also carries out an intense didactic activity. He is indeed a professor at the Pinerolo Music Academy.
Since 2017 he is the testimonial of the German company, world leader in the manufacture of strings for string instruments, Pirastro.
He plays a violin Giovanni Battista Rogeri 1699.
He is often invited as first violin and first viola by musical institutions such as:
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss, Gran Teatre de Liceu Barcelona, Stadt Kammerorchester Arpeggione, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Symphony Orchestra of Murcia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, I Musici Estensi.
Beside the concert commitment, Adrian Pinzaru also carries out an intense didactic activity. He is indeed a professor at the Pinerolo Music Academy.
Since 2017 he is the testimonial of the German company, world leader in the manufacture of strings for string instruments, Pirastro.
He plays a violin Giovanni Battista Rogeri 1699.
Gabriele Falcioni
Horn
Biography
A solidly trained cornist among the most appreciated of his generation. Umbrian by birth, chosen at a very young age by Riccardo Muti in the Cherubini Orchestra, he collaborated with Claudio Abbado’s Mozart orchestra. Winner of numerous national and international competitions including the audition for the first horn at La Scala, he holds this role in the orchestra of the Theater and of the Milanese Philharmonic for 3 seasons directed by the greatest conductors such as Barenboim, Chailly, Gergiev, Maazel, Dudamel, Pretre, Catti, Luisi, etc. Already the first stable horn of the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari, first eligible in the competition for the third horn at the Lyric Theater of Cagliari and winner of the audition for principal horn at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Gabriele collaborates with the most important orchestras on the international scene such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, RSI Lugano, the Camerata Bern, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Innsbruck, Salzburg Chamber Soloists, as well as having recorded a large part of the horn and orchestral repertoire for RAI, EMI, Decca, Deutsche Grammophone, Sony Classical, Brillant, BBC Proms and Warner Classic. Graduated from the “B. Marcello” Conservatory of Venice with M. Venturi, he perfected with H. Baumann and R.Baborak at the “Toscanini” Foundation, resulting the best student of the three-year courses. He attended the annual course at the Accademia di S. Cecilia with A.Allegrini and various master classes with S.Dohr, R.Vlatkovic, M. Hoeltzel, B. Schneider, W. Tomboeck, S.Pignatelli. From the desire to live and communicate the beauty of music, his indefatigable educational commitment as a teacher at the “G.B.Pergolesi” Institute of Ancona, the conservatories of Padua, Castelfranco Veneto and Monopoli was born. He is currently a horn teacher at the “R.Franci” Conservatory of Siena and at courses and master classes of various Italian and foreign institutions.
Mariangela Vacatello
Piano
Biography
“… and even when Ginastera gives you one piece with a close family likeness to another, you listen with a sense of renewal thanks to performances by Mariangela Vacatello of a superb zest, brio and imaginative scope… she has technique in spades, making her a front-runner with Argerich’s legendary live Three Argentinian Dances… no praise could be high enough for Vacatello’s achievement.” (Gramophone 2016)
In the two decades since her professional debut, pianist Mariangela Vacatello has brought her virtuosity, passionate interpretations, and magnificent musicality to diverse global audiences. She is recognized worldwide as an exceptionally gifted artist, reflected in the numerous awards and effusive reviews she has received for both her live performances and recordings for Brilliant Classics. Her performances are regularly broadcasted by prestigious Radio Stations worldwide.
The Second Prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in 1999 at the age of 17 catapulted her towards an international career as a soloist, performing at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Walt Disney Hall, Montpellier Festival, Carnegie Weill Hall in NYC, Oriental Centre in Shanghaj.
She has since appeared regularly with such prominent orchestras as the Teatro alla Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome, RAI in Turin, Lithuanian Symphony, Stuttgarter Philharmonics, Nordwestdeutsche Orchestra, Johannesburg Philarmonic, “Haydn” in Trento and Bolzano, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Zagreb Philarmonia, Pannon Philharmonic, Moldavian Radio Television, RSI Orchestra, Belgrade Philarmonic Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Colorado Spring Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra.
She has performed with renowned conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Krystof Penderecky, Gustav Kuhn, Andrès Orozco-Estrada, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Alexander Shelley, Xian Zhang, Roland Boer, Aleksander Slatkovky, Gerard Korsten, Daniel Kawka, Martin Haselboeck, Bernard Gueller, David Itkin, Zsolt Hamar, Christopher Franklin, Anton Nanut, Donato Renzetti, Alain Lombard, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Daniel Meyer, Carolyn Kuan, Michael Tabachnik. With Orchestra della Magna Grecia she has performed the Five Piano Concertos by S. Rachmaninov.
In her Awards: The Solti Foundation Award, Nino Carloni Prize, XVII Venice Prize, Finalist and Worldwide Audience Award at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1st Prize Top of the World International Piano Competition 2009, Laureate Prize Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in 2007, Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 2005, I.Yun in memoriam Korea 2008; she has been Rising Star TheGilmore in 2010/2011.
Mariangela Vacatello was born in Naples, Italy, from a family of musicians that started her to music lessons at the age of four; her talent has been accelerated by studies at Imola Piano Academy, Milan Conservatory and Royal Academy of Music in London, besides several mastercalsses around the world.
Her musical curiosity in the contemporary repertoire has brought her to collaborate with IRCAM in Paris in a world premiere Piano Quintet for SmartInstruments, a new technology that will permit to join both classical and digital sounds and to work with the composer Georges Aperghis.
Acutally Mariangela is living in Umbria and is a sought-after teacher as Piano Professor at the Conservatoire “A. Boito” in Parma and in Pinerolo International Music Academy.
In the 2019 season Mariangela Vacatello will debut in the prestigiuos Teatro San Carlo in Naples, a tour in South Africa, a project with IRCAM – La Scala Paris “Skrijabin and the contemporary”, a debut in La Biennale – Venice.
Single Violin Course
from 11th to 18th July
350€
- 50% Discount on Chamber Music Course
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Double Violin Course
from 11th to 18th July
Teachers Adrian Pinzaru and Kai Gleusteen
600€
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Viola Course
from 11th to 18th July
350€
- 50% Discount on Chamber Music Course
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Horn Course
from 11th to 14th July
230€
- 50% Discount on Chamber Music Course
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Cello Course
from 13th to 16th July
200€
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