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Jakub is a young pianist of excellence and great experience.
Festival: Music Biennale (Venezia), musical evenings (Milano), New Consonanza (Roma), Liepaja Music Festival (Latvia), Cluj Musical Autumn (Romania), Prishtina Music Festival (Kosovo), Poznan Musical Spring (Poland);
Recital: Quirinale (Roma), Theaters La Fenice (Venezia), Region (Parma), A. Bonci (Cesena), Warsaw Philharmonic (Poland), Lviv (Ukraine), Bucharest (Romania), Kulturcasino (Bern), St. Georg's Hall in Liverpool (UK);
do you study: San Francisco Conservatory, BUA, the Academy of Music "F. Chopin "in Warsaw.
Discography: Sandor Veress - Klavierwerke (Musiques Suisses MGB 6252), Polish Songs (prior act 0337), Polish Music for Cello and Piano (DUKE 1155), Gino Gorini – Works for Strings and Piano (touch 910702);
Biography
He starts very young to study violin with Emilio Cristinelli, tenor and orchestra at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , student in turn of Joseph Priests, and after entering the Venice Conservatory in Renato Zanettovich's class, he is called to take part in the study and concert activities of the "Little Symphonia", string orchestra conducted by Sirio Piovesan.
Soon after, following the meeting with the composer Claudio Ambrosini, joins the "Ex Novo Ensemble" in Venice, chamber group specialized in the repertoire of the '900 and contemporary. Scientific high school diploma, he attended for two years the orchestra qualification course at the Fiesole School of Music where he met Piero Farulli, with which he will continue his studies at the Chigiana Academy of Siena as the first violin of the "Malipiero" quartet, after obtaining a degree in violin with honors under the guidance of Renato Zanettovich.
The study of the violin repertoire continues at the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo and at the Music School of Fiesole for nine years with Stefan Gheorghiu.
He has also participated in masterclasses with Franco Gulli, and Henryk Szering in Siena and Nathan Milstein in Zurich.
He was awarded first place at the 9th "A.Curci" International Violin Competition in Naples, during which he played the concerto by Ludwig Van Beethoven violin live on radio.
Sounds steadily for more than 30 years with the Ex Novo Ensemble of Venice with which he has made numerous recordings with monographic programs of L.. Berio, F.Busoni, E.Casale, G.Donizetti, B.Maderna, G.F.Malipiero, G. Martucci, O. Respighi, G.Rossini, G.Sgambati, A.Schoenberg, C.Togni, E.Wolf-Ferrari, as well as works by A. Casella, I.Pizzetti and N.Rota for labels
AS disc, Arts, ASV, Edip, Dynamic, Giulia records, Remember, Stradivarius.
In duo with the pianist Stefano Gibellato he conducted a concert activity culminating in the recording of the 3 sonatas and 3 Morceaux de salon Anton Rubinstein for New Era.
After working as a duo with pianist Anna Lazzarini, director of the "E. Wolf-Ferrari" music school in Venice.
He is a member of the complex "The Italian Philharmonic Soloists" with whom he records for "Decca" and "Denon" and performs tours throughout the world.
In terms philological, as a baroque violinist he has been busy for almost 20 years with the ensemble "L’Arte dell'Arco" ,Among the many performances stands out the complete recording of concertos by G. Tartini violin.
He teaches violin and is currently a teacher at the Adria music conservatory.
www.alessandrodrago.it
Alessandro Drago was musically formed, the Maestro School. G.Agosti, under whose guidance he graduated from the conservatory 'S. Cecilia 'in Rome.
following, the precious encounter with Maestro. F. Zadar, which Drago was also assistant for three years in Lausanne (Switzerland), It puts him in contact with one of the most important international piano schools, that of V. Scaramuzza, teacher, among others, Martha Argerich, B. Leonardo Gelber, D. Bremboim.
Of fundamental importance for his artistic refinement was the attendance of the seminars of "Phenomenology of Music", at the University of Mainz (Germany), led by the great conductor Sergiu Celibidache.
After its premiere in Rome in 1982 during the Festival "Spring in Rome" with international pianists as Magaloff, yellow, Lonquich, Firckusny, Demus e Zadar, A. Drago has performed, with success, regularly in Italy and abroad.
He played, solo, in various concert halls and festivals in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Argentina, Japan, Russia, as well as the Philharmonic Society of Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia), Tbilisi (Georgia).
In Russia also she gave recitals at the Moscow Conservatory, e, with the orchestra, in the great hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
A. Dragon has recorded for major broadcasters (Radio Argentina, Russian and German Bayerische Rundfunk) and he participated in radio broadcasts of RAI and Radio Vaticana.
From the '90s, He has joined the activity solo intense artistic collaboration with the quartet Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg arches, as well as with German clarinettist Klaus Hampl, violist Alexei Popov and Russian cellists Luca Fiorentini and Francesco Sorrentino.
A. Drago has performed on several occasions in Salzburg, in recitals and as a duo with cellist Robert Choi and violinist Luz Leskowitz.
For many years he devoted himself with great passion to the training and education of young musicians, in Italy and abroad, also held courses and introductory seminars to the "Phenomenology of Music" at musical associations, the University of Sassari, and in some music academies with whom he taught.
Currently A. Dragon is professor of piano at the Conservatory of Foggia.
www.atelierlazzaro.com
As pupil of internationally rewarded masters restorers such as Hans J. Nebel and Vahkn Nigogosian – both pupils of S. F. Sacconi at Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. in New York - Horacio Piniero (Director of Jaque Français Workshop in New York, U.S.A.), Kenneth Meyer and Yung Ching, Giovanni Lazzaro is constantly devoted to spread his deep willingness and experience accrued on restoration and set-up on important, ancient instruments through his vision of Liuthery, that he translates into his elitist production of fully hand-made creations.
After attending the International Violin Making School of Cremona graduating with full marks in 1985, he refined his knowledge working as apprentice during his studies at Riccardo Bergonzi workshop (Cremona, Italy) before, after, as external workshops at Giancarlo Korea (Modena, Italy) and finally collaborating with Igor Moroder (Verona, Italy): mentors that he will never stop to thanks.
www.cembalo.it
Marco Vincenzi, organist and harpsichordist Verona, he graduated in 1984 with honors in Organ and Composition at the Conservatory of Verona under the guidance of Umberto Forni and M.o 1989 with honors in harpsichord at the Conservatory of Mantua under the guidance of Sergio M.o Vartolo. He has attended various courses of interpretation and improvement with the most important musicians: C. Tilney, T. Koopman for harpsichord music; J.L.G. Uriol, L.F. Tagliavini, W. Van De Pol for the repertoire ancient and baroque organ, J. Langlais for organ repertoire romantic and contemporary French.
Interested in the practice of Gregorian chant, He followed in Cremona, under the guide of L. Agustoni e M.C. Billecocq, an in-depth course on this repertoire, its use and philological interpretation. He carries out intense concert activity both as a soloist and as a conductor and conductor in various baroque chamber ensembles, participating in major events (Ente Rocca di Spoleto, Lodoviciano Festival in Viadana, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Fondazione Levi, Early Music Festival in Trento, Festival Monteverdi of Cremona, Bologna Ancient Bodies, Ente Lirico Arena di Verona…).
He has performed throughout Italy and in various European countries, al “Baroque Music Festival” in Estonia, the Cervantino Festival in Mexico, Russia and the United States. Active in research, has always worked in the field of finding musical works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with historical and musicological editions and publications, including in this also a specific interest in the organological aspect of musical practice, actively participating in the recovery of early keyboard instruments such as pianos and organs (“pianos”) and promoting the right repertoire to each specific tool.
He has received accolades from critics and audiences everywhere, both for his executive technique and for his interpretative and expressive skills.. He has participated in television recordings (RAI and other local broadcasters), has to his credit recordings, both in training both as organ and harpsichord. He also participated in a documentary film (an Italian-French co-production) ARTE France: “Of love and war”, or the Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda by Monteverdi, directed di Ilinca Gheorghiu (Here's an excerpt from youtube.com). With his ensemble "MusicalIncanti" in 2009 he was the winner of the special record award of the Masi Foundation, as part of the Zinetti competition, for the Venetian civilization. He is an organist on the historic organ “De Lorenzi” Parish of Pescantina (VR). He has taught at the Conservatories of Music of Sassari, Adria, Rovigo, Power and Venice. Winner of the chair, he is currently professor of Harpsichord at the “E.F. Dall’Abaco "in Verona.