ARTISTS
ANTONELLA SELVAGGIO, SOPRANO
She is a pupil of Anna De Martini and Giuliana Valente and a lover of ancient music. She has sung with various groups of sacred and secular music, combining her passion for psychology with her psycho-pedagogical studies to research those tools that can awaken her deeper self making it capable of looking inside and giving new answers to the world. She found one of these tools in the so called "bel canto" which, when reaching the right vibration, can bring the listener to a feeling of love for beauty, goodness and justice.
SELENE DI DOMENICANTONIO, SOPRANO
She trained with big names in the modern Italian and international music scene and graduated in artistic and performing arts. Moving from Rai participations to theatrical performances, she ranges from electronic minimal pop, with original EPs like "My Life" and "Your Future Day", to the theater of traditional Roman music, cultivating soul and jazz sounds, until meeting the passion for Holy music.
SILVIA RUFFO, MEZZOSOPRANO
She completed her studies at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna, and immediately began an intense concert activity. She is stable chorus artist at the Arena di Verona Foundation, where she has been part of the choir in 510 performances for Aida alone. She recently participated in the creation of a CD with music by M. Zuccante on texts by the philosopher E. Severino. She continues to perform solo activities preferring the sacred and Lieder repertoire, having sung in many Mozart productions, Requiem KV626; Rossini, Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater; Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, Brahams Alto Rhapsodie, and numerous Lieder by Mahler.
MIRKO FAVA, TENOR, CLARINET, RECORDER
Multi-instrumentalist, Mirko Fava achieves second-level academic qualifications in clarinet and vocal chamber music. In Konya he devoted himself to the study of the ney and the Mevlevi repertoire. He performs in prestigious Italian and European theaters with the ethnic music group Sari Gull. He specializes in the Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoire and in the Lieder repertoire. He is part of the vocal ensemble Schola Gregoriana Assisiensis, specialized in Gregorian music and medieval polyphony, with which he participated in several international Gregorian festivals. He is co-artistic director of the San Biagio Festival.
GABRIELE LOMBARDI, BASS
He graduated from the University of Bologna in Disciplines of the Arts, Music and Performing Arts. He graduated in singing at the ‘G.B. Martini' conservatory of Bologna and undertook an intense concert and opera activity as a soloist and as a choir artist. Since 2001 he has been a stable choir artist at the Arena di Verona Foundation, thanks to which a solid professional experience is formed with more than 1200 active performances. He continues to perform activities as a soloist, preferring Mozart and Rossini roles and also covering roles as stage and soloist in Verona Arena productions.
FLAVIA DI TOMASSO, VIOLIN
Concertist, graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome and perfected with Domenico Nordio, she is a promoter of important cultural projects through the Luogo Arte Accademia Musicale association, of which she is the creator. She is artistic director of the "Capriccio Italiano Festival" season in Piazza Navona, Rome. Recently, she has directed the Musica Nova composition prize, of which Maestro Ennio Morricone is president.
MARIA CRISTINA OTTAVI, VIOLIN
She graduated from the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. Since a very young age she alternates orchestral activity and chamber music with the teaching of Violin and Music in State Schools. She has collaborated in numerous instrumental formations of different genres, from classical music, to popular music, to Pop and singer/songwriter's work, combining her musical research with other artistic languages such as theater and body expression. Moved by curosity and passion, she cultivates ensemble music and choral singing, both as a performer and a privileged activity with her students.
CECILIA IACOMINI: VIOLIN, VIOLA
She graduated in violin, viola and chamber music. She has collaborated with several orchestras of Italian opera foundations: Cagliari Opera House, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Massimo “V. Bellini "of Catania, Teatro di San Carlo, Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, under the direction of G. Kuhn, D. Renzetti, H. Soudant, J. Conlon, Y. Temirkanov, J. Lopez- Cobos. She is a member of numerous chamber groups including the "Place of Art Ensemble". She taught in the "Italian Youth Orchestra and Choir System", inspired by the Venezuelan "Abreu System”.
LORENZO SBARAGLIA, VIOLA
He graduated in Viola, Violin and Jazz Music at the "A. Casella" Conservatory of L'Aquila and then specialized with internationally renowned musicians including Danilo Rossi and Bruno Giuranna. His collaborations with Italian and foreign orchestras have been numerous but his greatest artistic activity is in chamber music, collaborating with various ensembles that express themselves in classical, contemporary and modern repertoires, in concerts both in Italy and abroad and in various recordings. He holds the role of artistic director for the concert exhibitions "Piazzette in Musica Festival" and "Altacustica musica in montagna" in Subiaco and as a representative of the musical association "Centro Musica Subiaco”.
MARIA ANTONIETTA PUGGIONI, CELLO
A cellist and music therapist, she completed her studies at the Civic Music School of Milan. She plays in various chamber music groups (Ensemble Corelli, Quartetto Mozart, Quartetto A Voce Sola, Trio Rheinberger, Ensemble Sacri Concenti, Ensemble Seicento Italiano, Trio Artemisia); collaborates with the Chamber Choir Cappella Mauriziana in Milan, the Civic Choirs of Milan; she is a member of the A. Galassi Chamber Orchestra of Lugano. She teaches cello at the G. Zelioli Civic School in Lecco.
VALERIO MOLA, DOUBLE BASS
He graduated in double bass at the "Nicola Sala" Conservatory of Benevento, under the guidance of maestro Rino Zurzolo. He toured Europe playing in numerous and important classical and baroque music festivals, including the Ravello Festival, the Festival de Sylvanes and the Oude Muziek festival in Utrecht. He passionately combines concert activity with that of teacher in musical high schools.
MARIANNE GUBRI, HARP
Concert artist, graduated in Tours in France in Civilization of the Renaissance and graduated in ancient harps, she dedicates herself to the interpretation of new repertoires creating shows for international festivals. She has participated in more than 10 recordings. She holds solo concerts all over the world and is the director of the Bologna Harp Festival. An IHTP graduate from San Diego, she develops research projects in music therapy for Hospitals, Universities and Conservatories.
LOREDANA BERLANTINI, FLUTE
Graduated in flute and saxophone, graduated in Music Disciplines, she collaborated as a saxophonist for the realization of the works "Studies for the intonation of the sea" and "The mouth, the feet, the sound" by Salvatore Sciarrino and the relative engraving for the 'Stradivarius' label. Her passion and love for teaching has brought many of her students to great results in international saxophone competitions.
IDA GIANOLLA, OBOE AND ENGLISH HORN
She graduated in oboe, with full marks, at the Music Conservatory of Latina. Since 2003 she has been conducting orchestral work on a professional level, collaborating as a first, second and third oboe and English horn with the Santa Cecilia National Orchestra, the Rome Arts Academy Symphony Orchestra, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra Foundation, the World Youth Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra ... She graduated with the highest of votes and honors from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Rome Tor Vergata in the History of Science and Techniques of Music and Entertainment.
MARCO MANCINI, BARITONE SAX
Saxophonist, composer, born in 1998, he graduated in Music with the highest honors at the "Niccolò Piccinni" Conservatory in Bari. In 2012 he won the 1st Catati FIATI Award at the "International Tournament of Music” (TIM) in Paris. He was the winner of the 1st Prize in the "17th International Music Competition for Young Performers Città di Chieri" in which he performed an unpublished Concert by the composer Andrea Damiano Cotti with the "Sinfonietta Città di Chieri" Orchestra.
EMANUELE COLUCCIA, WOODWINDS, PERCUSSION
Multi-instrumentalist, arranger, composer, conductor, teacher, researcher, with a jazz background, he has played professionally in Europe and the United States since 1989. He has performed at the Lincoln Center in NY, at the German Consulate, at Princeton University. His name appears in the credits of dozens of record productions and more than 300 titles and in the program of hundreds of concerts on European stages and theaters.
ANNA VILLANI, PORTATIVE ORGAN, FRAME DRUM
She received her piano diploma at the Conservatory of Salerno, then deepened her studies in composition at the same conservatory. In 2006 she graduated brilliantly at a two-year Master's Degree in Execution and Piano Teaching at the Venice Conservatory. She has activated multiple musical projects at the Institutes of the district of Nocera Umbra and of Assisi. She is particularly active in cultural promotion and is co-artistic director of the San Biagio Festival, an event aimed at enhancing young talents.
DOMENICO MONACO, PORTATIVE ORGAN AND PERCUSSION
Refined and nationally respected pianist, winner of prizes in International Piano Competitions such as "E. Pozzoli" of Seregno, "A. Speranza" of Taranto, "L. Gante" of Pordenone, he has recorded in the world premiere for "Brilliant Classics" is the integral for 4-hands piano by M. Moszkowsky and the live Concerto Kv 595 by WA Mozart recorded live for RAI radio 3.
PAOLO ANDRIOTTI, CONDUCTOR, CELLO
Concert player, co-founder of the group, he was the first cello of the Messina Theater and a professor at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He has collaborated with some of the most significant Italian orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2018 he was invited by the Patrizio Paoletti Foundation as a speaker, in the "art" category, to the great "21 Minutes the Knowledge of Excellence" convention to talk about the experience and art of "listening".