VIIINTERNATIONAL PICCOLO FESTIVAL - Il Friuli

VII INTERNATIONAL PICCOLO FESTIVAL

ASSOCIAZIONE MUSICALE MUSICA VIVA

July 06-10, 2021 - Grado (Italy)

Nicole Esposito, Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch,

Nicola Mazzanti, Natalie Schwaabe and Pamela Stahel

MASTERCLASS

CONCERTS

WORKSHOPS

INTERVIEWS

www.internationalpiccolofestival.com

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About Grado ................................................................................................. 3

Event Schedule ............................................................................................ 4

Masterclass Schedule .................................................................................. 6

Artistic Director ........................................................................................... 8

Guest Artists ................................................................................................. 9

Staff ............................................................................................................ 13

Pianists ....................................................................................................... 14

Opening Concert ........................................................................................ 18

Wednesday Afternoon Concert ................................................................. 20

Winners’ Concert ....................................................................................... 22

Artists’ Concert .......................................................................................... 24

Friday Concert ........................................................................................... 27

Interview with Lowell Liebermann ........................................................... 29

Workshops .................................................................................................. 30

My schedule & Notes ................................................................................. 31

INTERNATIONAL PICCOLO FESTIVAL

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The Association “Musica Viva” promote the VII International Piccolo Festival,

that will be held in Grado, Italy, from the 6th to the 10th July 2021.

We are very honoured to host internationally renowned artists as Nicola

Mazzanti, our Artistic Director and Former Piccolo of the Maggio Musicale

Fiorentino Orchestra, Nicole Esposito, piccoloist and professor at the University

of Iowa School of Music, Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch, piccoloist at the

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Natalie Schwaabe, piccoloist at the

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Pamela Stahel, piccoloist at

the Opernhaus Zürich.

Everyday active performers and auditors can join the warm-up session.

Active performers will have lesson 45 mins long with three of the five guest

artists; with the online pass you can take part in all events, masterclasses and

concerts.

About Grado

Grado is a charming town located between Venice and Trieste, with a

wonderful beach and old roman ruins.

The city is referred to as the “Little Venice” due to its navigable canals similar to

the ones in Venice.

Address

Auditorium “B. Marin”

Via Marchesini 31

34073 Grado (GO)


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Event Schedule

Tuesday, July 06

09:00 am Welcome and presentation

09:45 am - 1:30 pm Masterclass with Pamela Stahel (ONLINE STREAMING)

Masterclass with Nicola Mazzanti

Masterclass with Natalie Schwaabe

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Workshop with Rena Urso: “The Body Mapping for flutists”

6:00 pm Opening Concert: Nicola Mazzanti and Alt(r)e Frequenze

Piccolo Quartet

Wednesday, July 07

09:00 am Warm-up with Pamela Stahel

09:45 am - 1:30 pm Masterclass with Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch (ONLINE STREAMING)

Masterclass with Pamela Stahel

Masterclass with Nicole Esposito

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Workshop with all our Artists:

“The three most important things to focus for an orchestral

audition”

5:30 pm Concert with Pamela Stahel, Marta Rossi, Nicola Mazzanti and

Natalie Schwaabe

9:00 pm Concert: Winners of International Flute Competition “Severino

Gazzelloni” 2019,

with Julie Romestant and Elena Ricci

Thursday, July 08

9:00 am Warm-up with Natalie Schwaabe

09:45 am - 1:30 pm Masterclass with Nicola Mazzanti (ONLINE STREAMING)

Masterclass with Nicole Esposito

Masterclass with Natalie Schwaabe

9:00 pm Artists’ Concert: Concert for piccolo(s) and orchestra. Basilica di

S. Eufemia, Grado


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Friday, July 09

9:00 am Warm-up with Nicole Esposito

09:45 am - 1:30 pm Masterclass with Natalie Schwaabe (ONLINE STREAMING)

Masterclass with Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch

Masterclass with Pamela Stahel

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Workshop with Janet Kinmonth: “The piccolo maintenance”

5:30 pm Concert with Pamela Stahel, Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch and Nicola

Mazzanti

9:00 pm Interview with Lowell Liebermann

Saturday, July 10

9:00 am Warm-up with Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch

09:45 am - 1:30 pm Masterclass with Nicole Esposito (ONLINE STREAMING)

Masterclass with Nicola Mazzanti

Masterclass with Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch

3:30 - 5:30 pm Students’ Final Concert

7:00 pm Final Party


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Masterclass Schedule

Tuesday, July 06

Stahel Mazzanti Schwaabe

09:45 - 10:30 Ricci Herdin Ruiz

10:30 - 11:15 Cangelosi Gavaud Lucci

11:15 - 12:00 Bellina Bistrovic Weil

12:00 - 12:45 Frezzotti Salerno Ricci

12:45 - 13:30 Ruiz Caporuscio Herdin

Wednesday, July 07

Fillion-Kelch Stahel

Esposito

Schwaabe*

09:45 - 10:30 Brumat Lucci Ferro*

10:30 - 11:15 Urso Zuberti Bellina

11:15 - 12:00 Lucci Salerno Haschke

12:00 - 12:45 Gavaud Carlutti Colanero

12:45 - 13:30 Ferro Di Pietro Bardwell

Thursday, July 08

Mazzanti

Esposito

Stahel* Schwaabe

09:45 - 10:30 Weil Gavaud Cavaliere

10:30 - 11:15 Colanero Brumat Cangelosi

11:15 - 12:00 Cavaliere Tu Sijing Frezzotti

12:00 - 12:45 Bardwell Venturi Urso

12:45 - 13:30 Haschke Ferro* Colanero


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Friday, July 09

Schwaabe

Fillion-Kelch

Mazzanti* Stahel

09:45 - 10:30 Tu Sijing Ricci Cavaliere

10:30 - 11:15 Di Pietro Bistrovic Haschke

11:15 - 12:00 Chen Caporuscio Urso

12:00 - 12:45 Salerno Zuberti Tu Sijing

12:45 - 13:30 Venturi Carlutti* Brumat

Saturday, July 10

Esposito Mazzanti Fillion-Kelch

09:45 - 10:30 Herdin Cangelosi Chen

10:30 - 11:15 Bistrovic Bellina Di Pietro

11:15 - 12:00 Caporuscio Ruiz Bardwell

12:00 - 12:45 Zuberti Frezzotti Weil

12:45 - 13:30 Carlutti Chen Venturi


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Artistic Director

Nicola Mazzanti

Nicola Mazzanti served as Solo Piccolo of the

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, a posi-

tion he has held from 1988 until 2020. Many

composers have written pieces for him, for pic-

colo and piano or orchestral concerts. His name

is associated with many premières. As a soloist,

he has performed with orchestras such as the

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra, “I

Pomeriggi Musicali” of Milan, the Malta Phil-

harmonic Orchestra, the Florence Symphony

Orchestra and Akronos of Prato.

Mr. Mazzanti performs frequently as both a

flute and piccolo soloist and in chamber en-

sembles in Italy and abroad. In his role of ad-

vocate for the piccolo as a solo voice, he has

performed in many flutes events and conven-

tions all over the world. Sir James Galway in-

vited him to perform at his masterclass in

Weggis (Switzerland) every year since 2008.

Since 2001, he has held annual piccolo courses at the “MusicArea” association in Flor-

ence and at the Italian Flute Academy in Rome. Since 2009 he teaches piccolo at the

Hochshule in Luzern, since 2011 at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano

(Switzerland) and 2013 at the Conservatorio “Verdi” in Milano and since 2020 at the

Conservatorio “Torrefranca” in Vibo Valetia (Italy). He is frequently invited to give mas-

terclassses for flute associations and music schools in Italy and abroad. He has released

several solo CD’s. His web site is a regular destination for dedicated piccolo players. His

book “The Mazzanti Method” for piccolo, published in 2014 by Theodore Presser, has

been welcomed as a milestone in the teaching of this instrument.

Mr. Mazzanti is a 1982 graduate of the “Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory of Florence,

where he studied with Sergio Giambi. He later took lessons or participated in master-

classes given by James Galway, Aurèle Nicolet, Raymond Guiot, Emmanuel Pahud and

Mario Ancillotti. In 1986, he earned an additional degree in Music History With Honors

from D.A.M.S. (University of Arts and Music).


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Guest Artists

A charismatic and versatile flutist, Nicole Esposito is the flute professor and head of the

woodwind area at The University of Iowa School of Music. She has achieved a career as a

soloist, teacher, chamber and orchestral musician on an international level having been

featured across the United States, Europe, Central and South America and

Asia. Esposito has performed at flute festivals and events around the world including

twelve National Flute Association Conventions, the Oklahoma Flute Fair, Florida Flute

Fair, Madison Flute Festival, West Virginia Flute Fling, Iowa Flute Festival, Atlanta Flute

Festival, the LA Flute Guild Festival, San Francisco International Flute Festival, Flute So-

ciety of Kentucky Festival, The Texas Summer Flute Symposium, FLUTISSIMO!, NSU

Flute Workshop, Festival Virtuosi, Brazil, the International Flute Festival sponsored by

the Brazilian Flute Association, the Santa Maria International Winter Festival, The Aruba

Symphony Festival, the International Flute Festival of Costa Rica, the Spanish National

Flute Convention, Bogotá Flute Festival, the International Flute Congress of Argentina,

Chilean Flute Encounter, Panama Flute Festival, the European Piccolo Festival in Slove-

nia, the Adams Flute Festival in Holland, Flute Forum in Luxembourg, the Canadian Flute

Convention and the British Flute Society Convention.

In addition to her teaching position at The University of Iowa, Professor Esposito has

served on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Camp, the University of Wisconsin-

Platteville and held a guest teaching residencies at the University of Michigan and West

Virginia University. She has given numerous master classes at prestigious universities

and conservatories in the United States and abroad including the Geneva Conservatory,

Royal Danish Academy, Madrid Royal Conservatory, Mannheim Hochshule, Peabody

Conservatory, Rice University and many others. As an orchestral musician, Esposito has

performed under some of the worlds leading conductors, including James Conlon, David

Zinman, Gunther Schuller, and Robert Spano. Former principal flute with the Dubuque

Symphony Orchestra, she has also performed with the Quad City Symphony, Cedar Rap-

ids Symphony, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, Youngstown (OH) Symphony, and the

Johnstown and Westmoreland (PA) Symphony Orchestras. Esposito has held the Piccolo

Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and

has also been Principal Flute of the Ohio Light

Opera. She has participated in a number of

other music festivals including the Brevard

Music Center, The Youth Orchestra of the

Americas, and the National Orchestral Insti-

tute.

Professor Esposito holds degrees from Carne-

gie Mellon University and the University of

Michigan. She has been a finalist or prizewin-

ner in several prestigious competitions includ-

ing the National Flute Association’s Young


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Artist, Piccolo Artist, and Orchestral Competitions, the WAMSO Competition sponsored

by the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competi-

tion. Additionally, she has published articles on Banddirector.com, The Flutist Quarterly,

Flute Focus and Flute Talk Magazines and can be heard on the Albany Records, MSR

Classics and Con Brio Recordings labels. Her primary flute teachers include Jeanne Bax-

tresser, Amy Porter, Marianne Gedigian, Jennifer Steele, and Catherine Payne, with addi-

tional study with Mark Sparks, Alberto Almarza, and Doriot Anthony

Dwyer. Nicole Esposito performs on the 14k Miyazawa flute and the Hammig Piccolo,

Mancke Headjoints and is an endorser of the LefreQue sound bridges for wind instru-

ments.

The flutist Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch from

Montréal, Canada comes from a family of

musicians. After studying piano at the

Conservatoire de musique du Québec, she

discovered her love for the flute: she then

obtained a Bachelor of Music in Flute

Performance from McGill University (Prof.

Jeanne Baxtresser). Shortly after graduating, she

obtained her first orchestral position in 1978 with

the Berner Symphonieorchester. During this

time, she continued her musical education at the

Konservatorium Bern and received an

Orchesterdiplom (Prof. András Adorján). The

following year, she furthered her studies at the

Conservatoire de Genève (Prof. Maxence Larrieu). From there she moved from

Switzerland to Germany in 1981 for a Solo-Piccolo position with the Oldenburgische

Staatsorchester. Since 1983, she holds the position as Solo-Piccolo with the

Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg (Generalmusikdirektor Kent Nagano). In

addition to her orchestral work performing symphony concerts, operas and ballet in her

own orchestra and as a substitute in other orchestras, she plays frequently as a soloist and

in chamber music. She supports many charitable causes as organiser and performer for

fundraising events. Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch teaches piccolo privately and specialises in the

preparation of advanced students for auditions. Many of her former students now hold

positions in major German orchestras.

The Tokyo-born piccolo and flute player Natalie Schwaabe grew up in Hong Kong. She

started her musical training there and was a member of the Hong Kong Junior Academy

of Performing Arts. After completing her secondary education at the Purcell School in

London, she obtained her artistic diploma with honours and a master degree whilst

studying with Professor Paul Meisen at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in

Munich.


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At the age of 21 she became principal flute of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and two

years later joined the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 1996 she fulfilled a dream in becoming

a member of the prestigious Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio. In 1996 she

received the special prize of the jury at the Prague Spring International Music

Competition and was a prizewinner at the 1st International Carl Nielsen Flute Competition

in 1998 in Odense, Denmark. In addition to

orchestral playing Natalie Schwaabe performs

as a soloist, having been accompanied by the

Nürnberger Symphoniker and the Stuttgarter

Chamber Orchestra. A great joy for her is to

play chamber music with her wind quintet and

pianist Jan Philip Schulze. She is a passionate

teacher, giving many piccolo masterclasses

worldwide and has the piccolo teaching

position at the “Hochschule für Musik und

Theater” in Munich. She plays a Jochen

Mehnert piccolo and lives in Munich with her

husband, the violinist and composer Winfried

Grabe and their 3 children.

Pamela Stahel. Growing up in a musical family,

she began the violin at the age of five. Later after

discovering the flute, she went on to earn a BM

in music performance with Bernard Z. Goldberg.

Studies with William Hebert as well as

masterclasses with Marcel Moyse furthered her

education. Her first orchestral experience

included engagements with various American

orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony

Orchestra, Canton & Akron Symphonies & Fort

Wayne Philharmonic. After relocating in

Switzerland, she intensified her studies with

Andre Jaunet while becoming an active

freelancer. Invitations to guest with ensembles

such as the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich Chamber

Orchestra, and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra & SWD Philharmonie. Ms. Stahel’s

engagement with the Philharmonia Zurich; Zurich Opera Orchestra, followed in 1991. As

a member of a number of well-known ensembles, she displays her versatility through

performances ranging from cross-over projects to the standard repertoire. Devoted to

furthering young musicians, she holds a piccolo & chamber music class at the University

of the Arts, Zurich. She also has the pleasure to have been invited to participate at various

festivals including the NFA, Porto Flute Festival, La Cote Flute Festival, Rheinau

Summer Music Academy and the International Piccolo Festival Grado.


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Staff

Nicola Mazzanti

Artistic Director, President of the

Association International Piccolo Festival

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Giorgio Tortora

Organization, Association “Musica Viva”

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Daniela Vilasi

Relationship Manager, Vice president of the


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Press & Social Media Manager, member of


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Webmaster, member of


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Pianists

Ferdinando Mussutto. Born in Italy in

1976, Ferdinando Mussutto graduated

in piano with full marks from the

conservatoire “J. Tomadini” in Udine at

the age of 20. He subsequently attended

several masterclasses for both solo and

chamber repertoire, studying with Piero

Rattalino, Walther Panhofer, Daniel

Rivera, Trio di Parma. In 2001 he

completed a two-year advanced course

with Maestro Andrea Lucchesini at the

Sesto Fiorentino’s School of Music, and

one year later he completed the

chamber music courses at the Trio di

Trieste School of Music in Duino (Trieste), studying with Dario De Rosa, Maureen Jones

and Enrico Bronzi, and obtaining a distinction degree. He has won prizes both as a soloist

and in ensemble in numerous national and international competitions, and he has

performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles around Italy, Austria, Germany, Spain,

Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, China, Paraguay and Venezuela, always enjoying great

acclaim both from the public and the critics. He has been involved in several music

projects with theatres and musical establishments of Italy and in Austria, e.g. with the

Ente Lirico “G. Verdi” of Trieste, the Orchestra FVG Mitteleuropa, the Festival “La

Biennale Musica” in Venice, the “Accademia Ars Musicae” of Klagenfurt (Austria), the

“CarinthiaArtis” Association and the Conservatoire “A. Steffani” of Castelfranco Veneto

(Treviso), the Choir of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the “S. Cecilia Music Foundation of

Portogruaro (Venice), the Orchestra “I Pomeriggi Musicali” of Milan, the Tallin

Sinfonietta, and has collaborated with important italian soloist, e.g. with Domenico

Nordio, Domenico Balzani, Lucio Degani, Gabriele Ragghianti, Federico Mondelci,

Massimo Mercelli, Roberto Fabbriciani, Cheryl Porter, the Szabò String Quartet,

and Nicola Mazzanti, piccolo soloist of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with whom, in

2016, he’s recorded a CD that will be soon released.

During his career he recorded several CDs, among wich there’s a first-time recording of

chamber works by the German composer Anton Schoendlinger (sonata for viola and piano

and second sonata for violin and piano) for REALSOUND label. He frequently explores

the contemporary and jazz-latin influenced composition as in the sax&piano CD’s

“INTERSECTIONS” for ARTESUONO label.

In December 2002 he won the selection for a piano accompanist at the conservatoire “A.

Steffani” of Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso) and held this position for four years, practising

a lot of chamber repertory for strings and winds. In 2009 he was invited to teach in a

Piano Master-Class for the students of “A. Lopez” Music School in Caracas; he teaches

piano, armony and music theory since 20 years, and a lot of his students won prices in


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piano competitions and achieved best marks in piano conservatory exams. In 2010 the

“Carinthia Artis” Association (Austria) gave him the “Carinthicum Price” for the high

artistic concert activity in Carinthia. In the same year he created a cycle of concert-lessons

entitled “Chopin, the poet-pianist”, playing the more significant compositions and

explaining the main stilistic lines of the composer in relations to his biography, reaching a

great success among the public. He’s the leader of the Ensemble “Piano Twelve”, a group

of twelve pianists playing original arrangements for twelve pianos, whose concerts have

drawn a lot a public in Lugano Congress Center (CH), Milano’s Expo, and Palazzo Pitti in

Florence. He’s often member of jury in many piano competition and scholarship’s

assignments for development of young artists.

Sara Radin. She received her Piano diploma, with

top marks and honours, from the State Music

Conservatory “G. Tartini” in Trieste, under the

tutelage of professor G. Gulli.

She then continued her studies at the “Scuola di

Perfezionamento e Magistero Strumentale” in

Trieste, obtaining the three-year diploma after

following courses with Maestros Bruno Canino,

Dario De Rosa, Christian Yvaldi, Shuku Ywasaki.

Admitted to the “Conservatoire de Lausanne”

(Switzerland) in the class of M° Jean-François

Antonioli for piano and M° Dag Achatz for chamber

music, she obtained the “Licenza di Perfezionamento

di Musica da Camera” in 1994.

In 1997 she graduated in solo piano at the Academy

of Music in Florence, under the guidance of M. Pier

Narciso Masi.

She is the recipient of various national and

international chamber music awards (for violin and piano duos) including 1st prize at the

International Competition “J. Brahms” of Acqui Terme, 2002, 1st prize at the National

Competition “Riviera Etrusca” (Li), 2002, 1st prize at the National Competition

“Hyperion” Cittá di Ciampino, 2002. She was a pianist collaborator in Master Classes

held by Masters such as Pierre Thibaud, C. Cossutta, V. Legiša, G. Carmignola, B.

Antonioni, F. Acolas, M. Padovani in Slovenia, Croatia and Switzerland. She is actively

involved in teaching music, particularly piano. She has obtained, with top marks and

honours, four Masters, including Piano accompaniment and vocal coaching. She is a piano

teacher at the 1st grade secondary music school “G. Roli” in Trieste. In 2010, she was a

researcher at the Department of Music Teaching of the “Tartini” Conservatory for the

EGGS project. Since 2010 she has been directing the project “Dentro la scena – Musica”

for the Municipal Theatre of Monfalcone.


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She is a busy concert performer in various chamber ensembles, in Italy and abroad. She

has recently dueted with violinist Manrico Padovani at the “Kulthurhaus Helferei” in

Zurich. She plays in duos and trios with flutist Giorgio Di Giorgi (first flute of the

orchestra G. Verdi in Trieste) and clarinetist Vincenzo Paci (first clarinet of the Teatro La

Fenice in Venice) with whom she will perform at the Italian Institute of Culture in Oslo.

Alberto Maniaci was born in Palermo in September 1987. He is a young conductor,

composer and pianist. He was awarded a First Class Honour Degree (with a Mention) in

Piano at Palermo “V.Bellini” Conservatorium. He studied composition with Marco Betta

and conducting with Piero Bellugi, Ennio Nicotra. Recently, in 2016, he was the only Ital-

ian pupil of Riccardo Muti for the second edition of the Italian Opera Academy.

As a conductor he has performed with Orchestra Giovanile Mediterranea (Mediterranean

Young Orchestra), which he founded in Palermo in 2002; Orchestra Sinfonica “La Verdi”

of Milan, Orchestra Giovani Solisti Siciliani (Young Sicilian Soloists Orchestra), Milan

Accademia Concertante d’Archi (Strings Concert Academy), Florence Symphonietta, Pe-

ter The Great Music Academy, Orchestra Jazz Siciliana (Sicilian Jazz Orchestra), Orches-

tra Filarmonica Nissena, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini of Parma (for the “Arturo Tosca-

nini Competition” for young conductor, which ranked among the 12 selected worldwide).

Orchestra Sinfonica del Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini di Palermo, Mediterranean

Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Giovanile Internazionale “Fedele Fenaroli” di

Lanciano, Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Sicilian Sym-

phony Orchestra), Teatro Massimo Orchestra, ICO Orchestra della Magna Grecia.

In 2012 he won the 3rd prize at the V International Competition “Luigi Mancinelli” in

Orvieto for conductors, conducting the Orchestra Music Space at the same competition. In

the same year he won the “Prize of the Arts” in conducting organized by the Ministry of

Education, University and Research at the Conservatory “Alfredo Casella” in L’Aquila.

In May 2014 he debuted Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with Orchestra Sinfonica Sicil-

iana. At the beginning of 2015 he has conducted “Oh! Che armonico fracasso” by Cima-

rosa, Mozart, Bach and Maniaci; in

2017 he has created with Teresa Man-

nino and Alberto Cavallotti “Teresa

Valery” (from “La Traviata”) pro-

duced by Teatro Massimo. In 2018 he

has created “Il duello alcomico” by G.

Paisiello and A. Maniaci. With the

same theatre he was also the conductor

of a lot of productions: “Figaro –

Opera Camion!” (2016 – 2017), “Le

nuvole di carta” by G. D’Aquila

(2017) and a jazz concert with Paolo

Fresu, trumpet. As conductor he

worked with pianists Giuseppe Andal-


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oro and Tamas Vasary, the doublebass player Alberto Bocini and the piccolo players Ni-

cola Mazzanti, Gudrun Hinze, Marta Rossi and Rena Urso. Crossover artist, Alberto Ma-

niaci worked on Rock music contest as arranger and conductor. He’s also a composer and

his music is published by Edizioni Musicali Wicky, Kelidon Edizioni and U07 Edizioni.

As pianist, in September 2009 he recorded the CD “Il Volo” (The Flight) with composer

Nunzio Ortolano’s music. As conductor, in july 2014 he recorded the CD “La cattedrale”

with Orchestra Giovanile Mediterranea. Recently he composed and recorded the project

“Appunti a matita - raccolta di temi per la lezione di danza classica” for the label Edizioni

Musicali Wicky.

In the Teatro Massimo’s summer season 2018 he conducted “Don Pasquale” and “L”Elisir

d’amore” by G. Donizetti and in 2019 he conducted “La Traviata” by Teatro Massimo.

Recently, in December 2019 he conducted “Il Trovatore” by Ente Concerti M. De Carolis

in Sassari and in 2020, in Milan a Symphonic tribute to Ennio Morricone named “Ennio

Morricone Night”, with himself arrangement for Orchestra Sinfonica “La Verdi”.

During last seven years he has taught at Dancing Lyceum “Regina Margherita” in Paler-

mo as ballet pianist. Since 2017 he teaches also Jazz arrangement and composition and

Orchestral practice at Istituto Musicale “Arturo Toscanini” of Ribera (Ag). Actually he

teach Theory and Ear Training at “N. Paganini” Conservatorium in Genova.


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OPENING CONCERT

Nicola Mazzanti and Alt(r)e Frequenze Piccolo Quartet

Tuesday, July 06 - 6:00 pm

Auditorium “B. Marin”, Via Marchesini, 34, Grado

Program

J.S. Bach: Partita in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004)

Allemanda

Corrente

Sarabanda

Giga

Ciaccona

Nicola Mazzanti

(arr. in A minor and transcribed for piccolo by Nicola Mazzanti)

WORLD PREMIERE

G.Ph. Telemann: Fantasia n. 5 in C major*

G.Ph. Telemann: Fantasia n. 3 in B minor*

G. Tortora: Studio n. 67

G.Ph. Telemann: Fantasia n. 9 in E major*

F. De Rossi Re: Four Witches in San Diego

Alt(r)e Frequenze Piccolo Quartet

Alessandra Aitini, Fosca Briante, Anna Govetto e Daniela Vilasi

*(for solo flute, arr. for four piccolos by Luca Russo)

TUESDAY CONCERT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis


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Alt(r)e Frequenze (the name, a play on words in the Italian language: Other/High Fre-

quencies), is a piccolo quartet whose members are Daniela Vilasi, Fosca Briante, Anna

Govetto and Alessandra Aitini. The group was founded in 2015 during the Master course

in piccolo for solo and orchestral performance, which was held at the “G. Verdi” Con-

servatory in Milan, Italy by Maestro Nicola Mazzanti.

The quartet’s founding idea is to highlight the soloistic and chamber music aspects and

value of piccolo; the research in sound – a deep sound, with endless nuances – and the de-

velopment of the expressive skills of piccolo represent the fil rouge of Alt(r)e Frequenze’s

activity.

The two main goals of Alt(r)e Frequenze are, on one side, to create a new repertoire for

this group, and on the other side the re-interpretation of existing pieces under new light

and colours. Contemporary renowned composers like F. De Rossi Re, U. Bombardelli,

G.C. Taccani, U. Pedraglio have written new pieces for piccolo quartet.

In September 2015 the quartet Alt(r)e Frequenze won the Jury’s special prize in the

Chamber Music category at the “S. Gazzelloni” international competition (Roccasecca,

Italy), earning recognition from important personalities in the flute world.

In 2016 the quartet has been invited to Trame Sonore – the Chamber music festival in

Mantova, Italy, to the Galway flute Festival (Weggis, Switzerland) and to the 2016 NFA

(National Flute Association) convention in San Diego (California, U.S.A.), where three

compositions written especially for this group will have their world premiere.

In October 2018 Alt(r)e Frequenze won the Jury’s special prize in the Chamber Music

category at the “F. Cilea” international competition (Palmi, Reggio Calabria – Italy) and

in May 2019 has been invited to “Co-

mo Contemporary Festival”.

At the end 2021 Alt(r)e Frequenze will

publish its debut CD (Napi Records),

dedicated to the 12 Telemann Fanta-

sies for solo flute, arranged for four

flutes/piccolos by Luca Russo in coop-

eration with the quartet itself.


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Marta Rossi, Pamela Stahel, Nicola Mazzanti and Natalie Schwaabe

Wednesday, July 07 - 5:30 pm


Program

A. Harberg: Fever Dreams

A. De Angelis: Enigmatic Rag

D. Schnyder: Conference of the Birds

Marta Rossi, Pamela Stahel and Nicola Mazzanti, piccolos

Sara Radin, piano

ALL THESE PIECES ARE WORLD PREMIERES

A. Harberg: Hall of Ghosts

Marta Rossi, piccolo

D. Dorff: Flash!

Natalie Schwaabe, piccolo

Sara Radin, piano

F. Donatoni: Nidi


F. Poulenc: Sonata for Oboe and Piano (arr. for Piccolo)

Elégie

Scherzo

Déploration


Ferdinando Mussutto, piano

WEDNESDAY CONCERT


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Marta Rossi, born in Rome and gradu-

eted with the highest honors at Music

Conservatory “S.Cecilia”, studied with

Mario Ancillotti, Angelo Persichilli,

Raimond Guiot, Wolfgang Schulz and

for the piccolo with Nicola Mazzanti.

She regulary performs in recital or

chamber music concerts and has been

invited as guest piccolo player at interna-

tional Festivals, such as Festival “Severi-

no Gazzelloni”, several editions of “Flau-

tissimo” in Rome, “Italian Experience” at

New York Hofstra University, Italian

Cultural Festival of Mumbay, Craco

Landscape Flute Festival, NFA Annual

Flute Convention (USA).

As a solist she performed with several Orchestras (Solisti Aquilani, Orchestra di Roma e

del Lazio, Orchestra Tartini, Orchestra da Camera del Gonfalone, Orchestra del Conserva-

torio di S.Cecilia, Juni Orchestra di S. Cecilia, Chamber Orchestra Juvenalia Espoo of

Finland) in repertoire concerts, like the whole Vivaldi piccolo Concerts. She gave also

premieres for solo piccolo and orchestra by Irma Ravinale, Azio Co rghi, Luigi Marinaro

and the italian premiere of the Piccolo Concerto by Lowell Liebermann at the Auditorium

Parco della Musica in Rome.

She played in recording sessions for films soundtracks with Oscar prize winners Ennio

Morricone, Louis Bacalov and Nicola Piovani, joining them for international concerts. In

2006 she obtained the Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with

highest honors. She teaches Piccolo at the Accademia Italiana del Flauto in Rome.

Winner of orchestra auditions, she played as First Flute in Orchestra Giovanile Italiana

and Orchestra Regionale del Lazio, cooperated with Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Caglia-

ri and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and since 2002 as Piccolo and Flute

player she is a member of the Orchestra of the Rome Opera House.


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WINNERS OF INTERNATIONAL FLUTE COMPETITION SEVERINO GAZZELLONI 2019 Julie Romestant and Elena Ricci



Program

J. Donjon: 8 Études de Salon:

n. 3 Le chant du vent

n. 1 Elégie

Julie Romestant, piccolo

M. Mower: Sonata for piccolo and piano

Julie Romestant, piccolo


R. Schumann: 3 Romanzen op. 94

W.A. Mozart: Rondo in D major KV Anh 184

M. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte

L. Gyöngyösi: Piccolo Sonata

Elena Ricci, piccolo


Elena Ricci received her Bachelor and Master in 2017 in Flute at the Conservatory A.

Casella of L’Aquila with P. Rossi and a in 2019/2020 Ist and IInd level Master at the

Conservatory G. Verdi of Milan with Mazzanti. She attended Flute and Piccolo

Masterclasses with Ferreira, Verhoyen, Loi, Mazzanti, Morris, Rossi, Gudrun Hinze, Rena

WEDNESDAY CONCERT


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Urso, Beynon, Formisano, de Reede, Campitelli,

Ancillotti, Pretto, Dalsant, Taballione, Bennett.

She has collaborated as Second Flute and Piccolo

with prestigious Italian Theatres and orchestras such

as Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera Theatre

Orchestra in Florence, Carlo Felice Opera Theatre

Orchestra in Genoa, Fondazione Lirico Sinfonica

Petruzzelli Opera Theatre in Bari, Sanremo

Symphony Orchestra, Grosseto Symphony Orchestra

and Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese in L’Aquila

under the baton of De Lorenzo, Morricone, Bernàcer,

Brogli – Sacher, Vaupotic, Emilsson, Piovani,

Palumbo, Galli, Ciampa, Castriota Skanderbeg,

Windfuhr, Veleno, Marasco. She has been awarded in many National and International

Competitions such as Severino Gazzelloni International Competition, “Riviera Etrusca”

National competition in Piombino, Arts National Competition in Matera and “Premio

Cresc endo” Competition in Florence.

Julie Romestant is a french flute and piccolo

player. She began her academic studies in

France, before moving to Germany to study

with Mario Caroli in Freiburg im Breisgau’s

Musikhochschule, where she graduated in

2020. She’s currently a student of Silvia

Careddu in Strasbourg’s Conservatory, France.

She had the opportunity to take part in many

Masterclasses with renowned flutists, such as

Michel Moragues, Julien Beaudiment,

Stéphane Réty, Hyeri Yoon, Adriana Ferreira,

Virgile Aragau, Loïc Schneider, Aldo Baerten

and Sébastian Jacot. She has been a

prizewinner of several piccolo competitions,

such as the International Vatelot-Rampal

Competition in Paris (1st Prize), and the International Flute Competition Severino

Gazzelloni in Pescara, Italy (3rd Prize). She was also invited to play with several students

orchestras as well as with professional orchestras, such as the Ensemble Itinéraire, the

Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, the International Orchestra Academy Schloss-

Hundisburg, the Neue Philharmonie Berlin, the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie and the

Animato Foundation Orchestra.


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ARTISTS’ CONCERT Nicole Esposito, Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch, Natalie Schwaabe,

Pamela Stahel and Nicola Mazzanti

ORCHESTRA ACCADEMIA ITALIANA, VENEZIA - GIORGIO TORTORA, CONDUCTOR Guests: András Adorján, Luisa Sello, Antonio Galligioni

Thursday, July 08 - 9:00 pm

Basilica di S. Eufemia, Grado

Program

F.J. Haydn: Londoner Trio n. 1 in C major for two flutes and cello

Allegro

Cantabile

Presto

András Adorján and Luisa Sello, flutes

Antonio Galligioni, cello

A. Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor RV 445

Allegro

Larghetto

Allegro

Nicole Esposito, piccolo

G. de Frumerie: Pastoral suite op. 13a

Preludium

Gavotte - Musette

Saraband

Siciliano

Final

Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch, piccolo

THURSDAY CONCERT


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P.A. Genin: Fantaisie sur “Un bal masqué” op. 17

Nicola Mazzanti, piccolo

(orchestration by Todd A. Harris)

G. Donizetti: Concertino (originally for clarinet)

Andante

Allegretto

Pamela Stahel, piccolo

(originally for clarinet, transcribed for piccolo by Pamela Stahel)

A. Vivaldi: Concerto in C major for 2 flutes RV 533

Allegro molto

Largo

Vivace

Natalie Schwaabe and Pamela Stahel, piccolos

F. Chopin: Variations on a theme by Rossini op. posth


(orchestration by Wingried Grabe)


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Giorgio Tortora is graduated in classical guitar with full marks at the “G. Tartini “of

Trieste. He studied composition in Zagreb with Alois Srebotniak, and conducting with

Miros Vallisch. He has played more than 500 concerts (Festival dei Due Mondi in

Spoleto, “Settembre Musica” in Turin, “I.C.U. in Rome).

Giorgio has conducted at: “Teatro Massimo” in Palermo, “Teatro Verdi” of Trieste,

“Teatro Rosetum” of Milan, “Kras Festival” Slovenia, Munich’s “Munchen ballet”,

“Foundation of the Pietà” of Venice.

He has composed more than one hundred works

for voice and instruments, published by Berbèn,

Les Productions d’OZ (Canada), “Classical

Lugano” (Switzerland), U.T. Orpheus, Pizzicato

verlag, Chanterelle verlag (Germany), Symphonic,

Schott (Germany).

He has collaborated on film productions

(soundtracks) as “In the Mood for Love” - Cannes

2000 and “Eleven day’s” - Locarno 2012.

He is the creator and is the leader of the festival

“Musica a 4 Stelle” - Grado.

His music is performed all over the world.


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Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch, Pamela Stahel and Nicola Mazzanti

Friday, July 09 - 5:30 pm


Program

H. Beeftink: Fireflies


L. Schiavo: Three film themes


Sara Radin, piano

D. Loeb: Six Preludes - Studies on East Asian Pipes

Ti (China)

Taegum (Korea)

Donglim (Tibet)

Shinobue (Japan)

Suling (Bali)

Khêne (Laos)

Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch, piccolo

M. Lauf Jr: Echoes of Narcissus

Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch and Pamela Stahel, piccolos

Sara Radin, piano

FRIDAY CONCERT


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Su Lian Tan: Concerto for piccolo solo and chamber orchestra (piano version)

.

Tempo rubato

Presto

WORLD PREMIERE

W. Saul: Sonatina for piccolo and piano

Vivace marcato

Andante leggiero

Allegro Energico

Nicola Mazzanti, piccolo

Sara Radin, piano

WORLD PREMIERE


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Lowell Liebermann


Auditorium “B. Marin”, Via Marchesini, 34, Grado - Online guest

Lowell Liebermann is one of America’s most frequently performed and recorded living

composers. He has written over one hundred thirty works in all genres, several of which

have gone on to become standard repertoire for their instruments, such as his Sonata for

Flute and Piano and Gargoyles for piano, each of which have been recorded over twenty

times on CD. He has been commissioned by a wide array of ensembles and

instrumentalists, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Emerson Quartet and flutist Sir

James Galway. His full-length ballet Frankenstein was co-commissioned by London’s

Royal Ballet and the San Francisco Ballet and has been released on Blu-Ray and DVD.

Mr. Liebermann has written two full-length operas, both enthusiastically received at their

premieres: The Picture of Dorian Gray, the first American opera commissioned and

premiered by l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and Miss Lonelyhearts, after the novel by

Nathanael West, commissioned by the Juilliard School to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

Mr. Liebermann served as Composer-in-Residence for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for

four years, a role he also pursued with the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan; the

Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and many other organizations. He joined the

composition faculty of Mannes School of Music of the New School in 2012, where he

founded the Mannes American Composers Ensemble, devoted to performing works of

living American composers. He was

appointed head of Mannes’s Composition

Department the following year. Among his

many awards are a Charles Ives Fellowship

from the American Academy of Arts and

Letters, awards from ASCAP and BMI and

a Grammy nomination. He was the first

winner of the Van Cliburn Invitational

Composers Competition, and in 2014

became the inaugural recipient of the Virgil

Thomson Award for vocal composition.

www.lowellliebermann.com

FRIDAY INTERVIEW

http://www.lowellliebermann.com/


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Tuesday, July 06 - 3:30 pm

Workshop with Rena Urso:

“The Body Mapping for flutists”

Online guest


Workshop with all our Artists:

“The three most important things to focus for an orchestral audition”


Workshop with Janet Kinmonth:

“The piccolo maintenance”

Keefe Piccolos Boston

Online guest

WORKSHOPS


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My schedule…

Day Hour

Nicola Mazzanti

Nicole Esposito

Jocelyne Fillion-Kelch

Natalie Schwaabe

Pamela Stahel

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In case of need

Daniela Vilasi +39 393 508 1026

Nicola Mazzanti +39 335 694 2954

www.internationalpiccolofestival.com

[email protected]

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