
CURRICULUM
Chorus Master
Chorus master at Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg – from August 2018
Chorus master at KGL Copenhagen for OTELLO – from March to April 2018
Chorus master at Staatstheater Darmstadt – from Oktober 2017 to March 2018
Chorus master at Oper Leipzig – from August 2011 to September 2017
Chorus master at Teatro Verdi, Trieste – in Feb 2010, then from Sep 2010 to June 2011
Chorus master at Oper Frankfurt – from August 2003 until July 2008
Chorus master in the summer and autumn seasons in Trapani for MACBETH, NABUCCO, AIDA, LA SONNAMBULA, 2001
Chorus master in Genoa, Teatro CARLO FELICE – DIE FLEDERMAUS and Massenet MANON, 1998
Director of the Coro Lirico Marchigiano V.Bellini of Ancona, 1993-96/ Operatic seasons in Macerata Opera Festival, Teatro Pergolesi – Jesi, Teatro Ventidio Basso – Ascoli Piceno and other theatres Chorus master at the Palais Omnisport of Bercy, Paris – Verdi’s AIDA in 1993
Coach and other positions
Korrepetitor in the Oper Frankfurt – 2003
Chef de chant at the Opera de Nice – 2000 – LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST and IL GIUDIZIO DI
PARIDE, ANDREA CHÉNIER in 2001
ARENA DI VERONA: Coach and Accompanist, 1981-82, 1991-92 / Musical director, 1983
Touring performances in Vienna (Austria) and Dortmund (Germany).
Coach, prompter, musical director, chorus master 1978-1990
Teatro Verdi – Padova, Teatro Grande – Brescia, Teatro Donizetti – Bergamo, Teatro Goldoni – Livorno, Teatro del Giglio – Lucca, Teatro Comunale – Treviso, Teatro Olimpico – Roma, Teatro Petruzzelli – Bari, Teatro Pergolesi – Jesi, etc.
Theatre concerts and conducting credits
Conducting credits since 1984 include:
Lucia di Lammermoor – G.Donizetti | Il barbiere di Siviglia – G.Rossini |
La modista raggiratrice – G.Paisiello | Il turco in Italia – G.Rossini |
Il mondo della luna – N.Piccinni | Nabucco – G.Verdi |
Rigoletto, La traviata – G.Verdi | Don Pasquale – G.Donizetti |
Since the beginning of his carreer in the operatic field he has collaborated with conductors such as Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Nicola Rescigno, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Nello Santi, Maurizio Arena, Anton Guadagno, Gianfranco Masini, Angelo Campori, Franco Mannino, Zoltan Pesko, Gustav Kuhn, Donato Renzetti, Massimo de Bernart, Daniel Oren, Paolo Carignani, Piero Bellugi, Carlo Franci, Alberto Zedda, Michail Jurowski, Herbert Blomstedt , Kiril Petrenko, Alan Gilbert, Riccardo Chailly, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons; and chorus masters such as Vittorio Barbieri, Alfredo D’Angelo, Corrado Mirandola, Romano Gandolfi, Aldo Danieli and many more
Pianistic appointments and Masterclasses
Coach
and assistant to Dalton Baldwin / Lorraine Nubar -1996-2018:
Academie Musical d’Ete’, Nice, Academia Marshall, Barcelona, Academie
Internationale de Musique, Fes – Morocco, Fundacao Casa de Mateus – Villa Real,
Portugal
Coach and pianist
Härnösands
Summer Opera Academy- Sweden
2014-2015
Master teacher
Academie Musical d’Ete’, Nice
Cours d’intérpretation chant et piano – 2012-2014
Master teacher
Workshop on Italian Opera, Universitetet i Stavanger
– Norway 2010
Coach and pianist
Corso di tecnica vocale – Teresa Berganza, Casa de Mateus 2002
Coach and pianist
Corso di tecnica vocale – Virginia Zeani, Barcelona 2002
Master teacher
Workshop on Italian Opera, Escuela de Musica – Guanajuato, Mexico 2001
Coach and pianist
Corso di interpretazione, Helga Mueller Molinari – Brunico 2001
Master teacher on the works of Spontini
Accademia Spontiniana, Maiolati (Ancona,Italy) 1998-99
Master teacher
Seminar on German Lied for young singers and pianists – Coro Lirico Marchigiano,1995-96
Accompanist and coach
Accademia Verdiana – Busseto – Carlo Bergonzi, 1990-91.
TAIPEI (Taiwan R.O.C.) 1984-85, 1987:
Series of master classes on Italian opera in Taipei (Taiwan R.O.C.), followed by concerts in several concert halls of the country. The recital with soprano Yi Man-chun was part of the opening season of the National Concert Hall of Taipei
Others / Studies
Lectures on La traviata, Turandot and Pagliacci, Workshop on italian Risorgimento – Universität Leipzig 2014-2017
Recording of Poulenc’s complete works for male voice on 3 CDs with the baritone Holger Falk
Label Dabringhaus & Grimm – 2011/2013
Francis Poulenc „Profil eines Künstlers“ – Lectures and concerts on Poulenc’s works – 2013
Concerts for Foundation Casa de Mateus – Portugal, accompanying young talents
like Maria Jose’ Moreno (1999) and Mary Elizabeth Williams (2000-2003).
Concerts since 1998 in several Tokyo concert halls (Pablo Casals Hall, Oji-Horu
Hall, Yamaha Hall – Ginza, Okurayama Hall).
First
Prize – International Contest Riviera del Conero in duo with soprano Norma
Raccichini, Ancona 2000
Created Trio dell’Aura in 1997 with soprano Valeria Esposito and flautist
Sandra Pirruccio
Revision and orchestration of the Korean opera Simchungjun – Seoul 1995
Concerts with Renato
Bruson, Fabio Armiliato, Mariella Devia, Valeria Esposito, Elena Mauti
Nunziata, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Cecilia Bartoli, Vincenzo La Scola, Pietro Ballo,
etc. in Italy
Television and radio appearances: RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana and Radio
Vaticana, Radio Classique – Bruxelles, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Accompanist, singing competitions and auditions: Maria Battistini – Rieti,
Giacomantonio – Cosenza, Francisco Vinas – Barcelona and the Opera de
Montecarlo.
Orchestral conducting classes with Nicola Hansalik Samale
Postgraduate piano work with Maria Luisa Faini, Alfredo Casella’s pupil and teacher at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester – USA
Conservatorio di Musica
“S.Cecilia” – Rome
Composition work with Vieri Tosatti and chamber music with Dino Asciolla.
Diploma in Pianoforte performance, awarded in 1979.
Studied piano with Rina Rossi and Pieralberto Biondi.
Languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish