Overtures, arias and scenes from European operas
Free ticket registration http://bit.ly/XKREQfGiuseppe Bruno, piano
Giuseppe Bruno has master degree in composition, in piano and
conducting, respectively with Prof. Piero Luigi Zangelmi in Reggio
Emilia Conservatory, Prof. Alessandro Specchi in Firenze Cherubini
Conservatory and Prof. Gianluigi Gelmetti and Gianpiero Taverna in Milan
Verdi Conservatory. He had also attended piano master-class of Paolo
Bordoni, conducting master-class of Leopold Hager and Franco Ferrara, as
well as composition seminar at IRCAM.
He had performed as a pianist for several years in many
different chamber ensembles as well as a brilliant soloist in most of
Italian towns. He has played with many important orchestras in Italy,
USA, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine,
Spain, Austria and Germany in a repertory that goes from Mozart to
Dallapiccola.
From 1987 to 1992, he participated in the “Due Mondi” festival
in Spoleto Italy and in 1988, he also attended the Charleston festival
in the USA. In 1991, Maestro Bruno received 2nd Prize at International
Piano Contest in Rome and in 1992, he received 3rd Prize in a duo with
violin player Alberto Bologni at the “Viotti” in Vercelli, Italy.
He recorded for Nuova Fonit Cetra, Diapason, SAM, Bongiovanni,
Ars publica, Ars Musici, as well as for RAI, Swiss French and Italian
radio and for WDR in Cologne.
He collaborated with conductors including Alkis Baltas, Spiros
Argiris, Franz Lamprecht, Corneliu Dumbraveanu, violinist Sashko
Gawriloff, singers Gail Gilmore and Victor von Halem, and with the Octet
of Berlin Philharmonic. He is currently a member of the Trio Petrarca.
In the past few years, he has been acknowledged as a highly regarded
conductor in Italy and abroad.
Maestro Bruno is at present the director of the Giacomo Puccini Conservatory, in La Spezia, Italy.
Paolo Valcepina, piano
Born in 1983, Paolo Valcepina is a brilliant Italian virtuoso.
He took his master degree in piano cum laude under Ottavio Minola in
Milan, Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi; he had attended
master-class in Luxembourg with Dana Protopopescu, in Milan with Paul
Badura-Skoda, in Santa Margherita Ligure with Irene Veneziano, in Seveso
Marziali Academy and in Florence with Bruno Canino.
Paolo Valcepina was the winners of several piano competitions:
In 1999, he placed second at first edition of Camillo Togni National
Contest and won 6th International Competition for Young Musicians in
Varenna; In 2000, he won 6th competition City of Giussano and obtained
second prize at 7th Lario in Musica Competition; In 2004, he placed
second at 9th City of Racconigi International Competition and 1st at
City of Pesaro National Piano Reward; in 2005, Paolo Valcepina won third
prize at famous Premio Venezia, a competition taking place every year
at Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice reserved to best Italian pianists.
Paolo Valcepina has appeared as a soloist in prestigious venues
and festivals worldwide: Gotischer Saal in Salzburg, Triennale dell’
Arte Palace in Milan, Auditorium al Duomo in Florence, Teatre Armengol
in Bellpuig, concert season in L’Alpe d’Huez, Amici della Musica season
in Sardinia, Institut Français de Florence, Music University in
Luxembourg, Villa Bernocchi on Lake Maggiore, Al Duomo concert hall in
Florence, Poschiavo in Switzerland among many others.
Interested in new musical languages, Paolo Valcepina is also a
composer; he studied composition in Milan Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory,
under Massimo Bertola.
In some of his concerts, he is used to present newly written
compositions. In the year of 2007 and 2008, he was the pianist of a
contemporary exhibition called “In Forme Armoniche”, in which a series
of 12 small piano pieces were inspired to 12 wooden sculptures by
figurative artist Lux Bradanini; In 2008, he played piano in the project
called “Giorno d’Ira”, a secular cantata written in memory of the
victims of terrorism.
Overtures, arias and scenes from European operas
Bruno-Valcepina piano duet
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
from
Die Zauberflöte:
· Overture
· Aria of the Queen of the night
transcription: Alexander von Zemlinsky
Georges
Bizet
Fantasy
on Carmen themes
transcription: Otto Singer
Camille
Saint-Saëns
from
Samson et Dalila:
· Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix
transcription: Paul Dukas
Gioacchino
Rossini
from
Il barbiere di Siviglia:
· Largo al factotum
transcription: Arnold Schoenberg
Richard
Strauss
from
Guntram:
· Prelude to act II
transcription: Otto Singer
Richard
Wagner
from
Tannhäuser:
· Pilgrim’s chorus
transcription: Fritz Spindler
Giacomo
Puccini
from
Turandot:
· Nessun dorma
transcription: Carlotta Ferrari
Gioacchino
Rossini
from
Guglielmo Tell:
· Overture
transcription:
Louis Moreau Gottschalk