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CURRICULA
GIOVANNI ACCIAI
Giovanni Acciai was born in 1946. He teaches musical history and early
music semiography at the Conservatory "G. Verdi" Milan. He studied organ,
composition and choir conducting and got a specialisation in music paleography
and philology at Pavia University. He is director of the didactic magazine
of choir music "La Cartellina".
He has published several articles and reviews on early music, musical
essays and critics. He was conductor of the "Corale universitaria di Torino",
of the "Coro del Teatro comunale di Bologna", of the Chamber choir of
the Italian Radio and of the "Polyphoniae studium".
At present Giovanni Acciai conducts the "Solisti del madrigale" and the
"Collegium vocale nova ars cantandi". The three-year masterclasses "R.
Goitre" for choir conducting and for the interpretation of early vocal
music were created on his initiative.
He collaborates with the RAI, the "Fondazione G. Rossini" in Pesaro, the
"Fondazione G. d'Arezzo" in Arezzo and with the "Istituto Cherubini" in
Rome. He is member of the artistic commission of FENIARCO and member of
the jury in the most important national and international choir contests
(Arezzo, Budapest, Gorizia, Tours, Vittorio Veneto, Trento, Milano, Zwickau
a.o.) as well as lecturer. He also belongs to the artistic committee of
the Riva del Garda competitions.
MICHELANGELO GABBRIELLI
Gabbrielli took a diploma in Choral Music and Choir Conducting, Organ and
Organ Composition at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.
He took diplomas in Vocal Polyphonic Composition and Composition at the
Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. At the same conservatory he also attended
the Higher Course in Choir Conducting and he took his diploma with the maximum
mark, cum laude, in Musicology.
He founded and for several years conducted the Carthusia Florentiae choir
devoted to the study and interpretation of Gregorian chant, at the Florence
Chartreuse where he has also been an organist.
He was the organist and instructor of the choir at the San Rufino musical
Chapel at Assisi Cathedral, with which he performed at numerous concerts
in Italy and abroad; he has conducted the Octopus vocal octet in Milan and,
in the same city, he cooperated, as the guest conductor, with some choral
groups. Currently he is the instructor and replacement conductor of the
Musica laudantes choir at Cesano Boscone (Milan) with which he has intense
concert activity, and he also work with instrumental groups like Il Giardino
Armonico, Musica Rara, the Bergamo orchestra and the Philharmonic of the
Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He has been the conductor of the Scuola
di Canto Medievale Aldo Roscio vocal-instrumental group and recently he
founded the Quatuor vocum vocal quartet.
He has written various works of a historiographic character and critical
revisions of early music, some of which have been published while others
are being printed. He is also active as a composer, with publications of
choral and instrumental music and some recordings. His compositions are
published by EMA, Pentaflowers and Cappella Musicala San Rufino in Assisi;
he has recorded for Pentaflowers and Sarx Records.
He works with some musical journals as an essayist and critic (Hortus Musicus,
a periodical for which he is also a member of the editorial board committee,
and Rivista Italiana di Musicologia) and he has worked with La Cartellina,
Chorus and the journal Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra.
BRUNO RAFFAELE FOTI
Born in 1959, he took a diploma in Organ and Organ Composition and attended
the new composition teaching courses at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory
in Milan. He did brilliantly well in long-term projects directed by Giovanni
Acciai (Bobbio, Piacenza and Lecco, in the years 1984-1986), becoming
his replacement teacher in the RAI Chamber Choir in Rome in the years
1990-1992. Since then he has had intense artistic, journalistic and teaching
activity in the field of the choral music.
He has done numerous concerts internationally, and works regularly for
the teaching and choral song journal La Cartellina, published by
Edizioni Musicali Europee in Milan, and was previously a teacher of choir
conducting at the Como Conservatory.
He systematically works in some of the most significant courses in the
sector and he is often called on to be a member of commissions doing auditions
for contests and national choir festivals. In the years 1994-1996 he was
the co-conductor of the Milan Chamber Choir and a teacher with the Civic
Choirs in Milan.
The founder and director of the Almagesto chamber group, a professional
vocal and instrumental ensemble working above all with the late Renaissance
and Baroque repertoire, he has participated in very prestigious artistic
events like “Musica nel nostro tempo” (Milan, 1992), the Cremona International
Festival of Early Music (in 1993 and 1994), “Musica e poesia a San Maurizio”
(Milan, 1993-1994 cycle), the “Autunno musicale di Como” (1994) and “Brescia
Aperta” (1995), and he took part in the integral recording of the “Selva
morale e spirituale” of Claudio Monteverdi published by the magazine Amadeus
(4 CD) and directed by Roberto Gini.
MARIA
LUISA SÁNCHEZ CARBONE
Luisa Sánchez Carbone studied music and took her diploma at the
G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin in Piano, Song, Pedagogy and Teaching of
Music and also took a degree in Letters and Philosophy with a thesis in
History of Music at the University of Turin.
She began her intense musical career as a pianist. Subsequently all her
concert activity was as a solo singer with a highly versatile stylistic
approach to a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to contemporary composers,
and from opera to recitalist roles, privileging 18th-century
and 19th-century works, the lied, and sacred and oratorial
music.
A guest singer at many theatrical institutions, festivals and concert
seasons in Europe and in America, in Italy she has worked with the Rai
symphony orchestra, with the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro Carlo Felice
in Genoa, the “Asti Teatro” Festival, the Teatro Toselli in
Cuneo, Unione Musicale in Turin, the “Musica Rara” association
in Milan, the Accademia di musica antica San Giovannino in Alessandria,
the “Lodoviciano” Festival of Early Music at Viadana (Mantua),
the “Città di Avellino” International Festival of Vocal
and Instrumental Music, the international “Fabbrica del Canto”
Festival at Legnano (Milan), and the “Voci d’Europa”
International Festival at Porto Torres (Sassari).
With the Sarx recording company in Milan, she did the first world recording
of the Stabat Mater by Pasquale Cafaro, conducted by Giovanni Acciai,
with whom she perfected her studies of Renaissance and Baroque vocal music,
and with the Tactus recording company in Bologna she did the first world
recording of Vespro Breve and Miserere by Francesco Durante
on the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death
of the Neapolitan composer.
Alongside her concert activity she has intense activity as a teacher of
voice technique and study for singers and choir conductors, at important
institutions like the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan, the Faculty of Sciences
of Formation at the University of Trieste and the Santa Cecilia Diocesan
School of Music in Brescia, where she is currently holding a course in
Renaissance and Baroque Vocality and opera singing.
She is on the editorial board of the Milan journal of choral music and
teaching La Cartella musicale, and runs its section on Vocal Practice.
She has recently published an essay on the art of song entitled Vox
arcana. Teoria e pratica della voce with Rugginenti in Milan.
GIACOMO
BAROFFIO
He was born in 1940 in Novara where he studied violin (with Giulio Riccardi)
and harmony (with Felice Fasola). In Germany he was an alumnus of Bruno
Stäblein, Marius Schneider and Karl Gustav Fellerer, and he studied
medieval disciplines (in particular musicology, liturgy, philosophy, and
history of art) and theological ones. He graduated in Cologne in 1964
with a thesis on Ambrosian song. He subsequently continued his theological
studies in Rome and his spiritual experience in a monastic sphere. In
the 1970s he taught Sacramental Theology in Genoa (Episcopalian Seminar),
and History of Liturgy and Methodology in Padua (Institute of Pastoral
Liturgy); subsequently he taught Gregorian Chant in Rome (Pontifical Institute
of Sacred Music: 1982-1986, 1988-1995), Liturgical Bibliology at Cassino
(University: 1992-1998), History of Medieval Music and Liturgy at Cremona
(University of Pavia, Faculty of Musicology: contract teacher from 1995
to 2000, associate professor since 2000-2001), Medieval Musical Palaeography
in Milan (Sacro Cuore Catholic University: since 1996) and History of
Medieval Music at Portogruaro (University of Trieste: 1999-2001).
On Gregorian chant, ancient Roman chant, Ambrosian chant and medieval
liturgical sources he conducts academic research, and holds university
and other seminars in Italy and abroad (Burgos, Cyprus, Beirut, Jerusalem,
Houston, London, Madrid, Malta, Paris, Prague, Stockholm, Tilburg, Trondheim,
Zurich, etc.).
He carries out research on particular collections of liturgical manuscripts.
He publishes articles on liturgy, its medieval sources and its music.
He conducts Gregorian choirs (Kantores, Septenarius...) and sings as a
soloist.
He is the editor of the International Journal of Sacred Music (LIM - Lucca),
a member of the editorial board of Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi (Bärenreiter
- Kassel), an adviser on Medieval Music (Florence), an adviser of the
Committee for the Ambrosian rite (Diocese of Milan), and the artistic
director of the “Divini incanti” festival (Nonantola). He
planned the 2000 Guidonian exhibitions (Arezzo and Pomposa) for which
he wrote the catalogue. He has done some recordings.
GÁBOR
HOLLERUNG
He was born in 1954 in Budapest. He studied choral and orchestral conducting
at the Liszt Academy of Music and later attended the masterclasses of
László Somogyi, Eric Ericson and Kurt Masur.
He is the choral director of the Budapest Academic Choral Society.
He has enjoyed a unique series of successes during the past 15 years as
his choir was the winner of all reputed European choir competitions. The
Grand Prize at the Béla Bartók International Choir Competition
in Debrecen and the title "Choir of the World" in Llangollen
were awarded to his choir.
Since 1989 Gábor Hollerung is chief conductor of the Dohnányi
Symphony Orchestra Budafok, the youngest Hungarian professional symphony
orchestra with which he has toured in numerous European countries.
In 1995 he held a conducting class at the IFCM European Symposium.
In 1996 he was invited with his choir to the IFCM 4th World Symposium
on Choral Music in Sydney. He is sought after as guest conductor and musical
advisor throughout Europe, he regularly holds courses for choral conductors
and has served as an adjudicator at many international choir competitions.
He is one of the artistic directors of INTERKULTUR Foundation and of the
MUSICA MUNDI festival series as well as one of the artistic directors
of the 1st Choir Olympics 2000 in Linz.
He is also president of the Hungarian Choir Competitions and Festivals
founded in 1998.
MARCO
ROSSI
Marco Rossi after graduating in law at the Università Federico
II di Napoli, he began a career as a lawyer in one of the foremost legal
studios in Naples.
He gained valuable experience in entrepreneurial skills during twelve
years in the construction sector in Naples.
Research carried out into management of non profit-making organisms stood
him in good stead when, in 1997, he joined the specialist in history of
the theatre Federica Castaldo, the musical director Antonio Florio and
the musicologist Dinko Fabris in founding the Associazione “Centro
di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini“.
Dedicating himself full-time to the administration of this new enterprise,
he has helped to make the Centro di Musica Antica one of the leading concert
organizations in Italy.
He has recently been appointed the Association’s President and taken
on the role of managing director of the Baroque orchestra “Cappella
della Pietà de’ Turchini“.
GIOVANNI
SCALICI
Pianist,
organist, choirmaster, he pursued his post-graduate studies in choral
practice and direction, Renaissance and baroque performance practice,
Guidonian solmization (Kodaly method) with G. Mazzucato and G. Acciai;
vocal technique with L. Manfrecola, G.M. Rossi and A. Conrado; palaeography
and semiology of the Gregorian chant with A. Turco; children’s vocalism
with S. Korn.
Graduate of the three-year liturgical-musical specialization course (CO.PER.LI.M.)
C.E.I. in Rome, with a musicological thesis.
He was director of the SCU.SPE.T chorus in Naples and of the G.B. Pergolesi
chorus in Palermo.
He directs the Cum Iubilo choir and the Cum Iubilo women’s vocal
group, with which his concert schedule is intense and the vocal and instrumental
ensemble Claustrum Musicae, which made its debut within the Organ Festival
2005 in San Martino delle Scale (Palermo) with the first modern-day performance
of the sacred motets by A. Ferraro.
He is member of the sacred music committee of the Archdiocese of Monreale
and, since 2005, member of the artistic committee of the Regional Association
of Sicilian Choruses A.R.S. Cori and as a director, he recorded the first
volume of the sacred works of I. Sgarlata on behalf of the Institute of
Religious Sciences of Monreale. Highly regarded teacher, his activities
include seminars, master classes, courses and workshops in vocal technique,
choral teaching and conducting at musical institutions and associations,
choral groups, public and private schools.
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