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Biography

Viola

Amihai Grosz looks back on a very unusual career path: At first a quartet player (founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet), then and until today Principal Violist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and also a renowned soloist.
Initially, Amihai Grosz learned to play the violin, before switching to the viola at age 11. In Jerusalem, he was taught by David Chen, later by Tabea Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin as well as in Tel Aviv by Haim Taub, who had a formative influence on him. At a very early age, he received various grants and prizes and was a member of the “Young Musicians Group” of the Jerusalem Music Center, a program for outstanding young musical talents.
As a soloist, Grosz has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Tugan Sokhiev, Klaus Mäkelä, Ariel Zukermann, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Alexander Vedernikov and Lionel Bringuier. He performs internationally with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
In the world of chamber music, Amihai Grosz collaborates with artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Mitsuko Uchida, Daniel Hope & Friends, Eric le Sage, Janine Jansen & Friends, Julian Steckel, Daishin Kashimoto and David Geringas.
The highlights of the season 22/23 are concerts with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, performances with the Orchestra Del Teatro Massimo di Palermo & Omer Meir Wellber, the Filarmonica de Gran Canaria & Beatriz Fernandez and the Musikalische Akademie Mannheim & Ingo Metzmacher amongst others. In the winter of 2023 Amihai will be touring Japan extensively. Performances are planned with the NHK Symphony Orchestra & Tugan Sokhiev, play-lead with the Aichi Chamber Orchestra, as well as solo performances.
Under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle Amihai will perform the Martinu Viola Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In the upcoming summer 2023 Amihai will perform at the Verbier Festival the Sinfonia Concertante together with Janine Jansen.
As part of an important round of chamber music projects Amihai will return to perform at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Collaborations and/or tours are planned together with with Emmanuel Pahud & Anneleen Lenaerts, the Modigliani Quartett & Nathalia Milstein and Made in Berlin.
In the season of 21/22 Amihai Grosz has been appointed as Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht.
Amihai Grosz plays a Gaspar-da-Salò viola from the year 1570, which is a lifelong loan made available to him by a private collection.

Biography

Conductor

Born in Puglia in 1993, Danila graduated in conducting with top marks and honours under the guidance of Marcello Bufalini, at the Conservatorio “A. Casella” in L'Aquila, furthering her studies with Dario Lucantoni and Donato Renzetti.
She began her conducting studies at the Civica Scuola di Musica “Claudio Abbado” in Milan, where she obtained her first level diploma, later winning a scholarship for an internship with the Mannheimer Philharmoniker. She was also selected for Sian Edwards' master classes at St. Andrew's University (Scotland) and was awarded a second internship as orchestral trainer at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.
She has conducted orchestras such as: Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Metropolitana della Città di Bari (in a concert with harpist Claudia Lamanna, winner of the International Harp Contest 2022) and LaToscanini di Parma for the show 'L' Arcipelago dei suoni', at the Arena Shakespeare in Parma.
In 2019, as artistic and musical director of the project "Il Guercio di Puglia - tra parole e musica" (The Guercio of Puglia - between words and music), winner of a regional call for tenders, she realized and promoted the first opera made entirely with Apulian artists under 35 years of age, thus conducting the world premiere of the opera composed by Nicola Scardicchio for the occasion. Also in Puglia, she conducted pianist Pasquale Iannone in concert for the 5th PianoLab Piano Festival in Martina Franca.
Since 2021, she has worked as Fabio Luisi's assistant for the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, where she made her debut conducting a new production of Antonio Salieri's La Scuola de' gelosi, thus being the first woman to conduct an opera title in the Festival's history. She also worked as assistant to Maurizio Benini for Anna Bolena at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, where she will also return for Maria Stuarda. Instead, with Michele Spotti she worked with the Benevento Philharmonic Orchestra, the Festival della Valle d'Itria and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo for Don Pasquale.
Her recent and future engagements include: a symphonic concert in the season of the Benevento Philharmonic Orchestra (Haydn, Saint-Saëns and Bartók), Pergolesi's La serva padrona at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the premiere in modern times of Paisiello's Il finto spettro at the Paisiello Festival in Taranto, and her debut at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart in Elisir d'amore.
She has to her credit a collaboration with Rassegna Musicale Curci: Periodico di Cultura e Attualità Musicali, for which she has published her research on the operatic genre of Literaturoper, with the titles "Debussy e la nascita della Literaturoper" and "Chi è Lulu? From Wedeking to Berg'.

Biography

Nato a Palermo, ha interpretato ruoli principali in importanti teatri come il Teatro Massimo di Palermo, il Teatro Bellini di Catania, l’Opera di Roma, San Carlo di Napoli, l’Opera Giocosa di Savona, il Regio di Parma. Ha esordito nel 2004 al Manoel Theatre de La Valletta a Malta come Bartolo ne Le nozze di Figaro. Tra gli impegni più recenti, Don Magnifico ne La Cenerentola a Catania, Palermo, Lecce, Foggia, al San Carlo di Napoli e al Regio di Parma, Dancaire in Carmen a Lecce e Foggia, Marullo in Rigoletto a Lecce, Don Alvaro ne Il viaggio a Reims all’Opera di Kiel, Il Pinocchio malvisto dal gatto e la volpe di Lucio Gregoretti per il Teatro Massimo di Palermo, il ruolo del titolo in Don Pasquale al Teatro dell’Opera di Maribor e Don Bartolo nel Barbiere di Siviglia a Maribor, al Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa di Savona e a Modena. Ha collaborato con importanti direttori d’orchestra e registi come Will Humburg, Costantin Trinks, Massimo Stefanelli, Andrea Sanguineti, Dario Fo, Emma Dante, Beppe De Tommasi, Gabriele Rech, Vincenzo Pirrotta.

Biography

Conductor

Winner of the prestigious Turkish "Altin Objectif" award, 2021 - conductor, musician, artistic and musical director, and cultural entrepreneur, Tom Cohen is internationally recognised for fusing musical styles from East and West to create Levant Music - a new musical language.
Classically trained and steeped in the music of North Africa and Arab countries, Cohen combines Western musicians and Arabic instrument virtuosi to bring Levant Music to orchestras and ensembles as diverse as The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra and the orchestras he’s founded in Israel, Morocco, Belgium and Canada.
As the founder, arranger, chief conductor and musical director of The Jerusalem Orchestra East & West he has presented the orchestra not only in its home city of Jerusalem but also across the Middle East. Cohen also founded the Symphonyat orchestra in Morocco which combines Jewish and Muslim players to huge success.
Resident in Brussels, Cohen’s numerous European activities include being Music Director of MED Orchestra which he founded to play Levant Music and regular appearances with El Gusto, an orchestra of Algerian musicians in France he has toured extensively to venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Much in demand as an artistic director and programmer, Cohen is artistic director of Arabesque, Akko’s international Arabic music festival held every August.
As well as creating arrangements for his various orchestras, Cohen is also a composer of film and TV music and has worked on some of the most successful tv shows in Israel.

Biography

Piano

Alessandro Boeri si è diplomato presso il Conservatorio di Torino in pianoforte, direzione d’orche- stra e come maestro collaboratore, con il massimo dei voti e la lode, e in direzione d’orchestra a Parma. Ha frequentato masterclass e seminari presso il Conservatorio di Torino e l’Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo, e si è esibito per le stagioni concertistiche del Conservatorio (come pianista e come direttore) e per Torinomusica, Unione musicale, MITO. Ha partecipato alla trasmissione Nes- sundorma su Rai5. Nel 2018 è fra i maestri collaboratori selezionati da Riccardo Muti come allievi effettivi dell’Italian Opera Academy per Macbeth. Nello stesso anno ha iniziato a collaborare con il Teatro Regio di Torino come maestro collaboratore. Nel 2019 è stato semifinalista al Concorso Internazionale di Direzione d’Orchestra di Bordighera. Dal 2019 al 2021 è stato coinvolto in nume- rose produzioni della stagione dell’Impresa Lirica F. Tamagno - Opera OFF come pianista e maestro concertatore delle opere in cartellone (La voix humaine, La traviata, Carmen, Il barbiere di Siviglia e altre). Nel 2021 ha iniziato la collaborazione con il Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino e con il Teatro Massimo di Palermo.

Biography

Coreographer

Born in New York, son of Léonide Massine, Lorca Massine has studied and collaborated with the greatest choreographers of our time: Balanchine, Béjart, and Léonide Massine.

He has inherited his father's penchant for story ballets and combined this with his unusual ability of illustrating contemporary themes in dance using the classical idiom.
He has choreographed more than fifty ballets and musical productions. The original version

of Zorba, which premiered at the Arena of Verona, has been seen in more than thirty five countries by over three million enthusiastic spectators. Massine's undertaking of the

APASSIONATA-Ovations Tour, an equine choreographic extravaganza, set new standards!

His works have been in the repertoires of internationally acclaimed companies such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Béjart's Ballet of the Twentieth Century, and the Paris Opera Ballet, and have been performed on the stages of international opera houses from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York to Teatro alla Scala

(Milan), Teatro la Fenice (Venice),Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Teatro dell'Opera (Rome), Teatro Carlo San Felice (Genoa), Teatro Massimo (Palermo), the Royal Opera House at Covent

Garden (London), and the Arena di Verona.

Lorca Massine is also the heir to Léonide Massine's vast heritage. His stagings of his father's ballets have been performed at the Paris Opera, American Ballet Theater, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Royal Winnepeg Ballet, the Boston Ballet, Bavarian State Ballet, Vienna State Ballet, and in 2005 three works of Léonide Massine

entered the repertoire of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Biography

Chitarra

Nato a Pesaro, Eugenio Della Chiara si diploma all’età di diciannove anni con il massimo dei voti e la lode nel conservatorio della sua città sotto la guida di Giuseppe Ficara. Tra i suoi maestri vi sono Andrea Dieci e Oscar Ghiglia, con cui si perfeziona all’Accademia Chigiana di Siena.
Tra i premi ricevuti si segnalano - primo musicista a conseguire questo riconoscimento più di una volta - le due borse di studio della Fondazione Rossini ottenute nel 2008 e nel 2010. Parallelamente agli studi musicali completa la sua formazione umanistica presso l’Università Cattolica di Milano, laureandosi in Lettere Classiche e in seguito in Filologia Moderna. La sua attività concertistica lo ha portato a suonare in Giappone, Austria, Germania, Ungheria, Turchia, Spagna, Norvegia, Danimarca e Irlanda; in Italia ha tenuto recital solistici per alcune tra le maggiori istituzioni musicali del Paese, tra cui la Società del Quartetto di Milano, la Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini di Napoli, il Festival di Martina Franca e della Valle d’Itria, la Società dei Concerti di Parma, il Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro e l’Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.

Ha inciso tre album per DECCA: “Schubert - A portrait on guitar”, registrato con strumenti costruiti a Vienna tra 1815 e 1840, “Guitarra Clásica”, antologia di trascrizioni da Haydn, Mozart e Beethoven, e “Paganini Live”, registrato dal vivo con Piercarlo Sacco. Nel 2022 è uscito il suo primo LP in vinile - “Eugenio Della Chiara plays” - prodotto dal CIDIM e pubblicato da Stradivarius, mentre nel 2024 è prevista l’uscita per Naxos di un CD dedicato alle opere per chitarra di Gaspar Cassadó e Frederic Mompou.

Appassionato camerista, suona in duo con il violinista Piercarlo Sacco, con il chitarrista Andrea Dieci e con il pianista Alberto Chines. Il suo interesse per la vocalità e per il teatro musicale lo porta a frequenti collaborazioni con cantanti lirici: su tutti il mezzosoprano Teresa Iervolino e i tenori Juan Francisco Gatell e Mert Süngü. Insieme ad Alessio Boni ha portato in scena “Tutto il resto è silenzio”, lettura dell’Amleto di Shakespeare accompagnata da musiche inglesi del Seicento.

Compositori appartenenti a diverse generazioni - tra cui Orazio Sciortino, Carlo Galante, Roberto Tagliamacco e Paolo Ugoletti - gli hanno dedicato oltre una ventina di lavori solistici e da camera. Ha al suo attivo varie registrazioni in prima assoluta, tra le quali spicca quella della Sonata per chitarra composta da Luciano Chailly nel 1976.

Dal 2015 è direttore artistico di “MU.N - Music Notes in Pesaro”, stagione di musica da camera orga- nizzata dall’Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali. Docente nei conservatori italiani dal 2017, ha insegnato a Latina, Modena, Lecce, Genova e Bergamo: dal 2022 è in servizio presso il Conservatorio “G. Tartini” di Trieste.

Biography

Soprano

Soprano greco, è nata ad Atene. Ha studiato al Dipartimento di Media e Cultura dell’U- niversità Panteion di Atene. Ha poi completato la formazione scenica alla Scuola di Teatro di G. Kimoulis, e vocale alla Nikos Skalkottas Conservatory. Dal 2007 collabora con l’Opera Nazionale Greca ad Atene. Nel 2011 ha continuato gli studi presso l’Opera Studio del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova e presso l’Accademia del Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago. Ha ottenuto premi e riconoscimenti in molti concorsi lirici internazionali in Italia e Francia. Nei teatri italiani ha eseguito ruoli da solista in opere quali La Cene- rentola, Il corsaro, Don Giovanni, Pagliacci, Tosca, Suor Angelica, Il tabarro, Il trovatore e in molte opere greche. Si è esibita in Italia, Belgio, Svizzera e Austria. Dal 2016 si è stabilita ad Atene, dove collabora con lo Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre e si esibisce anche come artista jazz con il suo quartetto.

Biography

Mandolin

Renowned worldwide for his musical integrity and effortless brilliance, Israeli mandolin player Jacob Reuven is one of the most sought-after virtuosos of his instrument. Reuven's broad musical horizons encompass everything from baroque to contemporary music, bringing an exuberance matched with uncompromising musical standards to all he does.
Studying under the guidance of Prof. Simha Nathanson at the Beer Sheva Music Conservatory, and later Prof. Motti Smidt at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Reuven mastered the interpretations of repertoire for solo violin, consequently becoming the first mandolin player to ever perform violin repertoire on a mandolin with an Israeli orchestra.
His precision and technical mastery, matched by his transcendental performances, have brought Reuven a worldwide following and recognition. He has performed as a soloist at various prestigious international festivals including Dresden Music Festival, Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, and Festival Mandolines de Lunel, and he has played under the baton of conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Antonio Pappano, Mendi Rodan and Zsolt Nagy. Nationally, Reuven has performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Israeli Sinfonietta, among others.
A highly regarded mandolin pedagogue, Reuven is a mandolin teacher at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, He plays a custom-made mandolin by Israeli luthier Arik Kerman, and is a founder of the award-winning Kerman Mandolin Quartet ,IMS and the 16 Strings duo.