Luca Schieppati
Luca Schieppati was born in Milan (1964). He started his piano studies very early and won contests even as a child. Luca studied at the Milan Conservatory under tutelage of Paolo Bordoni, he graduated with the highest mark and honors degree. Later he continued his studied in Rome and Paris with Aldo Ciccolini. Luca has won and been a finalist in many national and international competitions (Stresa, Milan, Rome, Monza, etc). He has given recitals in many essential music centers in Italy and at noted music events, such as Serate Musicali in Milan, Societa dei Concerti (Milan), Societa del Quartetto (Bergamo), Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Bibiena in Mantova, Teatro Salieri in Legnago (Verona), Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia and the Museum of La Scala Theatre in Milan. Luca Schieppati is also enchanted with performing early music on appropriate instruments and ensuing original sound. He has repeatedly performed at the concerts in Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, playing Chopin and Mozart on pianos by Pleyel and Walter firms in Giulini collection. In addition he has also premiered many works of contemporary composers. Luca has worked together with conductors Carlo Boccadoro, Carlo Goldstein, Daniele Agiman, Aldo Sisillo, Alberto Veronesi, Flavio Emilio Scogna, Andrea Raffanini, Anton Marek, Daniel Pacitti. As soloist he has cooperated witn many famous orchestras: Zagabria RTV, Romanian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Guido Cantelli and Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan and ensemble En Blanc et Noir in Venice. As chamber musician he has been member of numerous ensembles of international significance. Noteworthy is Luca’s joint work with violinists Piercarlo Sacco, Giulio Franzetti, Crtomir Siskovic, Stefano Montanari, Alexandr Trostyansky, Anna Minella; cellists Luca Fiorentini and Rustam Komatchkov and pianists such as Sofya Gulyak, Cristiano Burato, Francesco Libetta, Antti Siirala, Corrado Greco, Natalia Katyukova. He has also collaborated with singers, both stars as Luciana Serra, Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni, as well as with promising young singers. With the mezzosoprano Külli Tomingas he form the stable Duo “Original & Copy”, which has given numerous recitals of opera arias and solo piano transcriptions, the noteworthy concert venues being Museo del Teatro alla Scala and Palazzo Visconti in Milan, Sala Tallone on the island of San Giulio, Teatro Alfieri in Turin, Villa Medici-Giulini in Briosco, in addition also the Oistrakh festival in Parnu,Sorrento’s music festival , Palazzo Ducale of Lucca, SpazioTeatro 89 in Milan,Villa d’Este of Tivoli and Villa Malfitano in Palermo.Luca’s concert-lectures are highly appreciated. He is full professor at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milano.
Emanuele Delucchi
Emanuele Delucchi (1987), Ligurian by birth, lives and works in Milan. He studied with Canzio Bucciarelli [Genoa], Riccardo Risaliti [Imola] and Davide Cabassi [Bolzano] and graduated in piano and composition. He gives solo recitals, with orchestra and in chamber groups in Italy (MiTo festival, GOG season, Sagra Malatestiana etc) and abroad, he composes, teaches and gives lessons on the history of music: his artistic activity has deserved the attention of italian critics (Chierici, Ciammarughi, Foletto…) and foreign ones (Nicholas, Distler…). He has released records with the labels Toccata (Alkan/Vianna da Motta, with Vincenzo Maltempo), Piano Classics (Godowsky, D’Albert, Czerny, Stravinsky), Dynamic (Beethoven/Drouet, with Fabio De Rosa) and DaVinci (Ljapunov) and he made one of the very few complete recordings of Leopold Godowsky’s Studien, welcomed with enthusiasm by specialized critics (“Record of the Month” on ClassicVoice, Gramophone, Piano news etc). He is the first Italian to have performed and recorded the Concerto for solo piano by Ch.-V. Alkan (Lecce, 2009) and he gave the first performance in modern times of op. 856 by Czerny (Milan, 2017). The peculiarities of his recitals are 1. heterogeneous programs that include rarer music (especially from Renaissance, Baroque and late-Romantic literature) 2. listening guides 3. contaminations with literature and philosophy. Since 2015 he has been teaching piano and music history at the “Cluster Music School” in Milan, while since December 2022 he has been teaching piano at the “Francesco Venezze” Conservatory in Rovigo.
In February 2020 in Padua he was awarded the “Arrigo Boito” Award for his artistic activity. His compositions are published by Map of Milan and by Da Vinci Publishing of Osaka; in 2021 his Sonata before Dante’s writing was performed by Francesco Libetta on the occasion of Dante’s 7th centenary, at the University of Salento.
Alberto Ferro
Nato a Gela nel 1996, Alberto Ferro ha conseguito il Diploma accademico di secondo livello (2018) con il massimo dei voti e la lode presso il Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Vincenzo Bellini” di Catania, sotto la guida del maestro Epifanio Comis. Ha inoltre frequentato numerosi corsi di perfezionamento con pianisti di fama internazionale, quali Leslie Howard, Elisso Virsaladze, Joaquín Achúcarro, Richard Goode, Boris Berezovsky, Jörg Demus e Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Tra i numerosi premi vinti in concorsi nazionali ed internazionali spiccano: il 1° premio e il premio del pubblico al “Telekom – Beethoven” di Bonn (2017); il 2° premio, il premio della critica e il premio speciale Haydn al “Ferruccio Busoni” di Bolzano (2015); il 6° premio e il premio del pubblico al “Regina Elisabetta” di Bruxelles (2016); il 2° premio al “Premio Jaén” (2022); il 1° premio al “Premio Venezia” (2015); il premio come finalista all'”Arthur Rubinstein” di Tel Aviv (2023); il premio come finalista e il premio Children’s Corner al “Clara Haskil” di Vevey (2017).
Ha tenuto concerti per importanti associazioni e festival italiani ed europei, quali il Copenhagen Summer Festival, l’Unione Musicale di Torino, il Bologna Festival, il Ravello Festival, gli Amici della Musica di Firenze, la Società dei Concerti e la Società del Quartetto di Milano, il Tiroler Festspiele Erl, il Kissinger Sommer, il Beethovenfest, il Piano aux Jacobins, il Gent Festival van Vlaanderen.
Si è esibito in prestigiose sale da concerto (Conservatorio statale “P. I. Čajkovskij” di Mosca, Universität der Künste di Berlino, Ateneo rumeno di Bucarest, Filarmonica di Varsavia, Palau de la Música Catalana di Barcellona, Herkulessaal di Monaco di Baviera, Bozar, Flagey e Conservatorio Reale di Bruxelles, Zadužbina Ilije M. Kolarca di Belgrado, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Liederhalle di Stoccarda, Gewandhaus di Lipsia, Meistersingerhalle di Norimberga, Auditorium Charles Bronfman di Tel Aviv, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle di Bielefeld, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini di Catania, Teatro Nazionale dell’Opera e del Balletto di Costanza, Musikhuset di Aarhus, Kurhaus di Wiesbaden, Teatro La Fenice e Teatro Malibran di Venezia, Sala Filarmonica di Liegi, Filarmonica di Lussemburgo, Concertgebouw di Bruges, LAC di Lugano, Regentenbau di Bad Kissingen, Festspielhaus di Erl), sia in recital solistici, sia con orchestre sinfoniche e cameristiche (Orchestra Filarmonica d’Israele, Orchestra Nazionale del Belgio, Orchestra Filarmonica di Malaga, Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice, Orchestra Sinfonica di Anversa, Orchestra Sinfonica di Aarhus, Orchestra Classica Filarmonica di Bonn, Orchestra Reale da Camera della Vallonia, Orchestra da Camera di Losanna), sotto la guida, tra gli altri, di Arvo Volmer, Dirk Kaftan, Heribert Beissel, Günter Neuhold, Paul Meyer, Thierry Fischer, Marin Alsop, Christian Zacharias.
Nel 2016 e nel 2017 ha ricevuto la Medaglia della Camera dei Deputati, conferitagli dall’ex Presidente della Camera, On. Laura Boldrini, in occasione della Festa Europea della Musica, come riconoscimento al suo talento artistico, e per i successi riportati nel corso degli ultimi anni in prestigiose competizioni pianistiche internazionali. Nel marzo del 2017 ha tenuto un recital presso la Cappella Paolina del Palazzo del Quirinale, nella rassegna “I Concerti del Quirinale” in diretta su Rai Radio 3, ricevendo tanti apprezzamenti dal Presidente della Repubblica Italiana Sergio Mattarella.
Molte sue registrazioni sono state trasmesse da emittenti radiotelevisive nazionali (Rai 3, Rai 5, Rai Radio 1, Rai Radio 3, Rai Südtirol, Radio Popolare, Venice Classic Radio) e internazionali (RTBF, VRT, Musiq’3, Klara, ORF III, MDR Kultur, RTS, arte, Deutsche Welle). Inoltre, sono stati pubblicati tanti articoli su di lui da importanti riviste musicali, tra cui Suonare News, Amadeus, Crescendo, Andante e Pizzicato.
Ha pubblicato incisioni solistiche e cameristiche per importanti etichette discografiche, tra cui Brilliant, Warner, Da Vinci e Muso. Attualmente è docente di pianoforte presso il Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Antonio Vivaldi” di Alessandria.
Ivana Francisci
Graduated in Piano, Harpsichord and Composition at the Conservatory of Pescara and L’Aquila (Italy), at the Ecòle International de Piano in Lausanne (France) and at the Conservatoire Superieur de Musique in Geneva (Switzerland). She performed in five continents all over the world: Royal Academy of Music in London, Rai in Rome, St. Martin in the Fields, Blackheat, AGIMUS, Italian Cultural Institute in London, Oxford University, Ottawa University, Palacios das Arts Belo Horizonte, Royal University of Melbourne, Istituto Dell’Orefice and Teatro S.Carlo of Naples, Wiener Summer Festival, Heilingekreutzer, Ravello Festival, Albacete Summer Concert, Illinois State University, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Museo del ‘900 in Milan, Hailuodon Musiikkpaivat in Finland.He recently carried out a concert tour in South Korea with a complete performance of La Bohème, in collaboration with the Korean television broadcaster CBS, in the most important national theaters: Seoul (Lotte Concert Hall), Busan (Ha Neul Yeon Theater of the Busan Film Center), Pohang (Hyoja Art Hall) and Gangwon (Baeckriung Art Center) and in the Greek National Opera in Athens. He has accompanied on the piano illustrious musicians such as Vincenzo Mariozzi, Bruno Incagnoli, Antony Pay, Maxence Larrieu, Angelo Persichilli, Susanna Rigacci (with whom he has continued a partnership for about ten years), Gabriel Suovanen and Norma Fantini and has also participated in broadcasts radio broadcasts of Rai (Radiotre “La Barcaccia”) as a pianist with great masters such as Fiorenza Cossotto, Paolo Coni, Giuseppe Taddei and Silvano Carroli and for the concerts at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, broadcast live on Rai RadioTre and on Euradio. As a composer she has created symphonic works for orchestra, for solo piano and chamber music compositions.
Numerous recordings. Master collaborator of the Marrucino Theater in Chieti from 2005 to 2011 and for the same role in the GO Abruzzo Festival from 2015 to today. She is the founder and president of Euregio Klassika, a cultural association in Trento. Conservatory teacher for almost twenty years, he is currently in charge of Score Reading at the Bonporti Conservatory in Trento.
Stefania Santangelo
Stefania Santangelo completed her musical studies at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, graduating in piano with full marks and honours.
She perfected and expanded her artistic training with musicians such as Bruno Mezzena, Paolo Bordoni, Piero Rattalino and, for chamber music, Salvatore Accardo, who said about her: “Stefania has an amazing absolutely stunning technique, her sound is very noble, powerful and emotional, her musicality is pure and imaginative.”
She made her debut at the age of ten, playing with the “Nova Musicorum Arcadia” Orchestra of Milan, a debut that already allowed her to begin a leading concert activity.
She participated in the main national piano competitions, winning nine absolute first prizes. She also won the second prize at the “Arcangelo Speranza” competition in Taranto and semi-finalist at the Busoni in Bolzano.
She has played in Italy, France, England, the Czech Republic, Romania, Spain, Mexico and the United States.
He also collaborated, as a soloist, with the Pescara Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestras of the Province of Bari and Lecce, the Proarte Marche Orchestra, the Brescia Chamber Orchestra, the Bucharest State Radio Orchestra, the “Silvestre Revueltas” Philharmonic Orchestra of Queretaro (Mexico), performing, among others, the two Chopin concertos and the second and third Rachmaninov concertos. She participated in radio and television broadcasts: her performances of Rachmaninov’s second Sonata and the 12 Etudes op. 10 by Chopin have been broadcasted several times by Rai.
She recorded the three Brahms violin sonatas with Laura Gorna and the Brahms Paganini piano variations for Dynamic.
She was President from 2014 to 2022 of the Pescarese Music Academy, a school of excellence founded in 1978 by her father, Elio Santangelo.
Actually Stefania is a teacher as Piano professor at the “Nino Rota” Conservatory in Monopoli.
