TEACHERS CURRICULA

GLORIA BANDITELLI [Song]

A mezzo-soprano from Assisi, after getting her singing diploma at the Conservatory of Perugia, went on to win in 1979 the competition at the Teatro Sperimentale of Spoleto, debuting in Rossini’s Cinderella and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She has sung in the major Italian lyric theatres such as La Scala (Nozze di Figaro, Otello, Oberon, Il Turco in Italia, La Fiaba dello

Zar Saltan, La Pietra del Paragone, L’occasione fa il ladro, Sonnambula, Manon); La Fenice (Lucrezia Borgia, Orfeo, Le Portrait de Manon); Teatro Comunale of Bologna (Eugenio Onegin, La Molinara, Mosè, Linda di Chamounix); Teatro Comunale of Firenze (Gianni Schicchi, Jonufa, Assedio di Corinto); Opera of Roma (Conte Ory, Prova d’Orchestra), under the direction of Maestros Abbado, Muti, Kleiber, Maazel, Gavazzeni, Delman, Gatti, etc. Specialising in Baroque repertory, she took part in operas and concerts at the Opera, at the Theatre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel in Paris, at the Concertgebouw and Opera of Amsterdam, at Frankfurt Opera, at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatro Reyal of Madrid, at the Colon of Buenos Aires, at the theatres of Athens, Bordeaux, Houston, Montpellier, Baden-Baden, Vienna, Montecarlo, Innsbruck and others, working with conductors such as Jacobs, Leonhardt, Savall, Garrido, Biondi, Alessandrini, Gatti, Florio, Scimone and Dantone. She participated in the festivals of Salzburg, Edimburg, Aix-en-Provence, Pesaro, Ravenna, Beaune, Utrecht, Köln, Gottingen, Lugano, Losanna and others. She has recorded for the RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Radio France, the German WDR, the Austrian ORF, the BBC, Radio Nederland. She has also recorded for Emi, Decca, Harmonia Mundi, Denon, Columbia, Nuova Era, Hungaroton, Naxos, Opus 111, Tactus, Astrèe, Ricordi, Antea, Stradivarius, Bongiovanni, Arts, Glossa, K617, Nightingale.

LAURA PONTECORVO [Flute]

She studied with M. Hantai, M. Eckstein and P. L. Graf. Since 1998, she has been playing as first flute with Concerto Italiano and collaborating continuously with various ensembles such as the Accademia Bizantina, La Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini, Divino Sospiro, Europa Galante, Italian Baroque Orchestra, L'Arte dell'arco and

smaller groups of chamber music playing baroque and classical flute. She has performed at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Gotham Early Music Foundation at the Lincoln Center of New York, the Kioi Hall in Tokyo, La Folle Journee in Tokyo, Theatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal in Santiago del Cile and in Rio de Janeiro, Sociedad de Cultura Artistica of Sao Paulo, the ORF Radio Festival in Wien, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Concertos Portugal Telecom in Lisbon, Early Music Lufthansa Festival in London, Flemish Festival, Bath Festival, Beaune Festival and many others all around the world. She has performed as a soloist in Japan, the United States, the Nederlands, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium. With the Quartetto Raro, with whom she recently recorded for Inedita, F. Ries Flute quartets, she performs flute and strings repertoires of 18th and 19th century with original instruments. She recorded for Opus 111, Naïve, Stradivarius, Dynamic and Amadeus. She teaches chamber music and baroque flute at the Cosenza State Conservatory and baroque flute at the Briccialdi Institute in Terni.

EVANGELINA MASCARDI [Lute]

Was born 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lives in Italy. She studied guitar at the Escuela Nacional de Musica J. P. Esnaola with Gabriel Schebor and Silvia Fernandez. In 1997 she started studying lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) with Hopkinson Smith and in 2001 she obtained her Solisten Diplom. She also obtained a diploma in lute from the

Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia. She has performed as a soloist in numerous festivals such as Fringe Barcelona, Basler Lauten Abende, Luth at Theorbe Geneve, Early Music London, Concentus Brno, Orpheum Zurich etc. Her first Solo-Cd recorded in 2004 by ORF Austria, containing music by J. S. Bach and S. L. Weiss won the Diapason d’Or. As a continuo-player she has worked with the Venice Baroque Orchestra (dir. Andrea Marcon), the Ensemble 415 (dir. Chiara Banchini), the Zefiro (dir. Alfredo Bernardini), the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra (dir. Sir John Eliot Gardiner), the Les Concert des Nations (dir. Jordi Savall). She has recorded more than 20 cds with Archiv, Alpha, Ambroise, ORF, Naive, Zig Zag Territoires, Sony Classical. She has performed baroque operas in many theatres throughout Europe and America, for example Champs-Élysées Paris, Brooklyn Academy of Music New York, Carnegie Hall New York, Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, Tokyo Opera Hall, Teatro La Fenice, Theatre de Bordeaux, Frankfurter Opera, Theater Basel, Opera National de Paris etc.

RICCARDO MINASI [Violin]

Was born in Rome in 1978. He has regularly performed as a soloist and as a leader with Accademia Bizantina, Il Giardino Armonico, Le Concert des Nations, Concerto Italiano, La Risonanza, Al Ayre Español, Elyma, La Sfera Armoniosa of Amsterdam, Zefiro, Assemblée des Honnêtes Curieux, Musica Aeterna of Bratislava, Collegium 1704 of Prague, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Ente

Lirico of Cagliari, Orchestra Sinfonica di S. Remo and has also worked with Concerto Vocale of R. Jacobs, Ensemble 415 of C. Banchini, K.& M. Labèque and with the lutenist L. Pianca. From 2006 he plays with the Accademia Ottoboni of Rome. He regularly conducts the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Harmony of Nations Orchestra. He has taught at the Conservatory V. Bellini in Palermo, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Kuks Residence in Prague, the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the Longy School of Music in Cambridge and the University of Taipei (Taiwan). In September 2006 he was invited by the Amici della Musica di Firenze to conduct the first concert of the new orchestra Camerata Strumentale Fiesolana, which was founded in Fiesole by Piero Farulli's School of Music.

ANDREA FOSSÁ [Violoncello]

Born in Rome, began by studying the cello with Giorgio Schultis. He continued studying at the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome with Giorgio Ravenna and Franco Tamponi. He took a specialist course at the music school of Fiesole, attending the lessons of Piero Farulli, Dario de Rose, Renato Zanettovich and Roberto Michelucci.

He obtained his diploma at the Conservatorio L. Cherubini in Florence. He played with the Italian Youth Orchestra, with whom he participated in concerts and tours all over Italy. He specialised in the practise of pre-romance music on instruments of the era, attending seminars and master classes with Anner Bjlsma and Hidemi Suzuki and then at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he took the three year specialist course for cello (Cristophe Coin) and chamber music (Jesper Christensen). A prize winner at the international chamber music competitions in Capri and Stresa, he has twenty years concert experience and regularly performs chamber music and as a soloist he has played at the most prestigious venues and the most important European and World festivals. He has been part of several early music groups, collaborating with among others Leonardht, Koopman, Malgoire, Garrido, De Marchi, Gatti, Alessandrini, Banchini, Schmidt-Gaden, etc. He has recorded for Harmonia Mundi (Concerti Grossi di Corelli with Banchini and Gatti.), Accord (Cantate Italiane of Haendel with Khier and Scholl), K 617 (Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Il Vespro della Beata Vergine of Monteverdi and Latin American baroque music with Garrido), Symphonia (Cane and Able by Pasquini, Messa Sopra la Monica by Frescobaldi with De Marchi and Madrigals of Gesualdo of Venosa with Curtis), Capriccio (a selection of sonatas by Angelo Ragazzi, sonatas and concerts of the Neopolitan Violin School, sonatas of the Roman Violin School with Christoph Timpe), Naxos (Orpheus by Monteverdi with Sergio Vartolo), Tactus (cantatas by G.M. Bononcini and A. Scarlatti with Miatello and. Morini), Nuova Era (cantatas and masses by G. Carissimi). He has also recorded for Bongiovanni, Pentaphon, Agorà, Dynamic, as well as recording for various European radio networks. He has a wide didactic experience, has taught cello at the Scuola Comunale di Orvieto and is at present teaching the same course at the Scuola Popolare di Musica at Testaccio in Rome. In 1997 and 1998 he was invited by Malgoire to be an Assistant in the courses at the Centre de la Voix at the Abbey of Royaumont. In 2000 he was asked to hold courses for Baroque cello and group music for early instruments at the Dipartimento di Musica Antica at the Conservatory of Palermo.

ADRIANO FALCIONI [Organ]

Was born in Terni (Italy) in 1975. His musical education started in Perugia: piano and organ with Wijnand Van de Pol and then Organ Konzertdiplom in Freiburg Musikhochschule (Germany) with Klemens Schnorr. He studied the organ in Paris with Marie Claire Alain and in London with Nicolas Kynaston. He also took Organ

courses and master classes at the Haarlem Organ Academy, Göteborg University, Zurich and Pistoia Academies with Winsemius, Chapelet, Leonhardt, Tagliavini, Lohmann, Van Oortmerssen and Guillou. He was finalist and prize winner of eight International Organ Competitions. He holds concerts every year at many important festivals all over Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Poland. He has performed the complete works of Bach, Franck, Liszt, Duruflè, Mendelssohn and Reger’s fantasias. He is Artistic Director of the Orte International Organ Festival, on one of the most important historical instruments of Italy. (www.cittadiorte.it)