Curricula Campus delle Arti 2015

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Claudio Montafia
25 – 29 JULY 2015
FLUTE
Claudio Montafia graduated with honours at the Conservatoire “
G. Verdi “ in Turin with A. Evangelisti. After attending Dartington
Hall and Sion courses he obtained the “Diploma Superiore” with
honours and “special mention” with P.L.Graf, and later
specialized with James Galway for many years getting the
honour to be one of his students. Winner of numbers of
contests (Manta ,Stresa, Rassegna Givani Interpreti RAI1 and Rai
Sinfony Orchestra in Turin and Angelicum Orchestra in Milan) he
recorded for Fonit-Cetra ,Tactus ,Rainbow, Denon and recorder
for many national and international radio / television
broadcasting. He performed as a soloist or in chamber groups all
over the world for international music festivals such as Evian,
Zagreb, Plovdiv , Montreaux, Settembre Musica Lancut, Frankfurt . He holds master classes
and he’s often guest as jury member in many national and international competitions. He
also worked as principal flute with Rai Orchestra and Teatro Regio Orchestra in Turin,
Orchestra Internazionale D’Italia , Teatro Lirico Orchestra in Cagliari , Turin’s Chamber
Orchestra , Padova’s Chamber Orchestra , I Solisti Veneti , Antidogma Musica , Camerata
Casella , Musica Insieme di Cremona. He performed with musicians such as L. Laskine . R.V.
La Croix. W.Mikulca. W.Mendelshon ,D. Renzetti , A. Cigoli , A. Sacchetti, Salzburg Soloist
and many others. He’s flute Professor at the Pollini Conservatoire in Padova and principal
flute in the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta.
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Marcello Tonolo
CAMPUS DELLE ARTI 2015
27 JULY - 3 AUGUST
JAZZ/PIANO JAZZ/JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Marcello Tonolo, piano b. 1955 Mirano (Venice) He has
collaborated with some of the best Italian musicians:
Gianni Cazzola, Massimo Urbani, Larry Nocella, Giovanni
Tommaso, Marco Tamburini, Piero Odorici, Maurizio
Caldura, Enrico Rava, Pietro Tonolo, Roberto Gatto,
Maurizio Giammarco, Giampaolo Casati, Gianni Basso,
Furio Di Castri, Riccardo Del Fra, Piero Leveratto, Sandro
Gibellini, Luigi Bonafede, Paolo Pellegatti, Edy Busnello,
Fulvio Sisti, Flavio Boltro, Tiziana Ghiglioni and Fabrizio
Bosso. Tonolo has also worked with many American
musicians including Chet Baker, Kenny Clarke, Al Cohn,
Lee Konitz, Pepper Adams, Steve Grossman, Sal Nistico,
Eliot Zigmund, Cameron Brown, Billy Hart, Gary Bartz,
Robert Davis, Ruud Brink, Bobby Watson, Robin
Kenyatta, Ray Mantilla, Jim Snidero, Gary Smulyan, Valery Ponomarev, and Ben
Riley.Marcello has performed in Europe and the United States, been featured on radio and
television programs, and headlined the most important Italian festivals. Recording credits
include dates with Bob Porcelli, Steve Lacy, Curtis Fuller, Paul Jeffrey, Eddie Henderson, Joe
Lovano, Slide Hampton, Rachel Gould, Keith Copeland, Sam Most, Billy Hart and Cameron
Brown, Chris Cheek.
As a leader he has recorded six albums:
Marcello Tonolo Trio
DOC (1986)
On the Wings (1999)
Lazy Afternoon (2010)
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Second Takes (2012)
Music On Poetry (quintet);
Days
Seed Journey
Thelonious Monk Big Band (director and arranger)
Night Over (2008)
Marcello Tonolo
The Way I am (2014)
Marcello Tonolo Quintet (feat. Chris Cheek)
Crazeology (2014)
Since 1988 Tonolo has been the director of the Thelonious Monk Music School in Dolo
(Venice), affiliated with the Department of Jazz Studies at Duke University (North Carolina,
USA). Tonolo won the 10th International Barga Jazz contest in 1997, under the
Arrangement for Jazz Orchestra category. Presently, Tonolo teaches jazz at the
Conservatorio Pollini di Padova.
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Massimo Pastore
CAMPUS DELLE ARTI 2015
27 JULY - 2 AUGUST
PERCUSSION
Born in 1959, Massimo Pastore is a percussionist in the
greater meaning. Graduated with full marks at Ferrara’s
Music Conservatorium, specialized on Percussion at Jutland's Academy (Denmark) with Gert Mortensen and Einar
Nielsen, he is an internationally qualified performer since
1986, having played in many European countries with a
repertory ranging from Baroque Music to Contemporary
Classical Music.Since 1992 teaches percussion instruments at
Music Conservatorium of Padua and leads the Art Percussion
Ensemble from 1997. Since 1989 he leads the “Nuovo
Gruppo Italiano di Percussioni”, with whom he has played a
lot of concerts with Laslo Heltay, Thomas Dausgaard, Antonio
Ballista, Sergio Balestracci, Mario Brunello playing composers
Ennio Morricone, Giovanni Bonato, Vladimir Mendelssohn.
From 1991 was been teacher and concert player at several Festivals like International
Summer Festival of Portogruaro;, “Musical Holidays” at Sappada, “Musical Courses for
Percussion and Wind Instruments” at Spilimbergo and Udine. Recently teaches also at
Campus Musicale delle Arti of Bassano del Grappa. Furtherly was been guest percussion
teacher at University of Macedonia (Greece), at Music Academy at Krakow (Poland), was
been invited at International Percussion Festival at Royal Academy of Music (2008) in
Copenhagen and hold masterclasses at Conservatorio Superior de Musica of Valencia, at
“Janacek” Akademy at Brno (CZ), at European Community Project for percussion ASTAPER
at Krakow (Poland). He teaches academic courses of music-therapy in collaboration with
Padua University. His solistic repertoire and recording includes music of Keiko Abe, John
Beck, Giovanni Bonato, Klaus Peter Bruckman, Paul Creston, Gordon Jacob, Askell Masson,
Minoru Miki, Alfred Reed, Ney Rosauro, Yoshioka Takayoshi, Tsuneya Tanabe, Yannis
Xenakis. He recorded a solo CD “Alone Together” (2010). As Orchestra’s Conductor worked
at Porsche Jazz Festival of Padova with Gianni Basso, Marco Tamburini and Massimo
Colombo Trio. He conducted Edgar Varese’s “Ionisation”.
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Cecilia Franchini
CAMPUS DELLE ARTI 2015
27 JULY - 2 AUGUST
CHAMBER MUSIC
Cecilia Franchini graduated with honors in piano at just 17
years of age at the Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padova.
Further studies with V. Pavarana, A. Lonquich (Scuola di Alto
Perfezionamento of Saluzzo) and in 1996 she obtained a
Konzert Diplom at the Musik-Akadamie der Stadt in Basilea
under the teaching of P.Efler. She has mastered at the
Scuola Superiore di Musica da Camera ‘Trio di Trieste’, and
subsequently with P.Masi at the Accademia Pianistica of
Imola, receiving a special mention of merit. Chamber music
has always been a central part of her musical life, initially in
piano trio and in duo with cello with her brothers and
subsequently with wind instruments and voice. Invited to
perform in Italy and abroad, she has participated in festivals
in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Poland and
South-America and has recorded for the National Television, Radio Vaticana and private
radio broadcasts.Her interest and openness towards other cultural environments lead her
to found in Venice the Simultaneo Ensemble, a contemporary chamber music laboratory
created in 2003 for the study, performance and appraisal of this particular Venetian, Italian
and international repertoire. Simultaneo Ensemble premiered at Saltzburg Mozarteum and
carried out different projects, monographs from Messiaen (2005), Dalla Vecchia (2010),
''Note Venete'' (2011), Debussy (2012), Britten, Hindemith and Poulenc (2013), ''In principio
era il Lied'' (2014), to ''Le metamorfosi della Musica Russa'' (2015). Nowadays the
Simultaneo Ensemble projects merged under the patronage of the CCVEN (Consorzio tra i
Conservatori del Veneto) involving teachers and students from the seven Academies.
Actually she plays with her brother Raffaele, solo cello at the Niederrheinischen Sinfoniker
of Germany, as Duo Franchini, focusing on the research of Italian repertoire for
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cello and piano. She has been professor of Chamber Music at the Conservatorio ‘B.
Marcello’ in Venice since 1996 and at the moment is teaching at the Conservatorio ‘C.
Pollini’ in Padova. She was president of ‘Music of the Body’ until 2011, an association of
bodily expression founded with S. Martinet and her pupils, to promote and develop the
method based on Dalcroze studies, addressed to musicians but also to teachers and artists.
In 2010 she graduated with honors in a postgraduate programme in Music Therapy at
Verona Conservatory.
Luciano Borin
25 JULY - 3 AUGUST
VOCAL FUNCTIONAL METHOD
ROHMERT METHOD
Luciano Borin graduated in Piano, Choral Music and Choir
Conducting (C. Battel) and Composition (W. Dalla Vecchia) at the
Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padova. Further studies in Choir
Conducting with J. Casas, P. Eidenbenz and Orchestra (Accademia
Musicale Pescarese), meanwhile studying Philosophy at Venice
University. He is a certified teacher at the Lichtenberger® Institut
für angewandte Stimmphysiologie and is constantly in contact
with Gisela Rohmert. His vocal and instrumental compositions
were awarded in national and international competitions and
performed in important Festivals, they have also been recorded
for RAI. He played with Viotti Chamber Orchestra (recording 2 CDs for DYNAMIC) and with
Gruppo Ricerca NOVO CONCENTO. Active as vocal–instrumental ensembles conductor and
correpetitor and improvising pianist, he is professor of Music Pedagogy and tutor for the
Academical Courses at the Padova Conservatory. Author of didactic-pedagogical
publications he holds different courses addressed to teachers, theatrical and musical
associations. He is NOVO CONCENTO artistic director in Conegliano so far as NOVA CANTICA
Vocal Studies Centre artistic director in Belluno.
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Maria Cristina Fogagnolo
25 JULY
2 AUGUST
HARP
Maria Cristina Fogagnolo, harpist, professor of
Harp at the Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padova.
Graduated in Harp with full marks under the
guidance of Caterina Greselin at Rovigo
Conservatory. Further studies with Pierre Jamet,
president of the Association Internationale des
Harpistes and of the Academie Internationale de
Gargilesse. She obtained a scholarship for the Paris
Ecole Normale, where she mastered the solo and
chamber French repertoire with Fabrice Pierre.
She has played for more than ten years in harp
duo with her sister Maria Rosa, focusing on the
research of the specific harp duo repertoire. Besides the concert activity she performed
with different Orchestras and Theatres (Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro La Fenice di
Venezia, Teatro Filarmonico e Arena di Verona...) under the direction of international
conductors: Peter Maag, Donato Renzetti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Riccardo Chailly, Michel
Plasson, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Eliahu Inbal.