L’Associazione Corale Goriziana C.A. Seghizzi è lieta di presentare la giuria del 20° Concorso Internazionale di Canto Cameristico “Seghizzi”.
Artistic Director and President of the Jury
Eddi de Nadai
Formerly Maestro Collaborator at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Staatsoper in Hannover, Verdi in Trieste, Lyric Experimental in Spoleto, Sociale in Trento, graduated in piano and harpsichord at the Venice Conservatory, studied conducting with Romolo Gessi, Donato Renzetti, Lior Shambadal and Deyan Pavlov
Già direttore ospite al Teatro dell’Opera di Izmir per diversi anni, dal 2009 ad oggi è regolarmente invitato al Bolshoi Theater di Tashkent come direttore d’orchestra e preparatore del repertorio operistico italiano. Svolge una intensa attività collaborando con prestigiose orchestre (Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Città di Ferrara, Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Radiotelevisione Slovena, Sinfonica di Cordoba, Orpheus Kammerorchester Wien, Filarmonica di Bacau, Filarmonica di Odessa, Kiev String’s Orchestra, Radiotelevisione Albanese, Opera di Belgrado e Lubiana, Astana Opera) e importanti solisti quali Bruno Canino, Rocco Filippini, Enrico Pieranunzi, Luciana D’Intino, Katia Ricciarelli, dirigendo un vasto repertorio sinfonico e operistico in Italia e all’estero.
Ha diretto tra l’altro Nabucco e Aida al Taormina Opera Stars, Madama Butterfly al Festival Pucciniano di Torre del Lago, The little sweep di Britten al Teatro Verdi di Pisa, La Cecchina di Piccinni e Maria de Buenos Aires di Piazzolla al Teatro Comunale di Treviso. Ha inaugurato MittelFest 2016 di Cividale con la prima assoluta di Menocchio di R. Miani. Ha diretto la prima assoluta di Still Requies di Mauro Montalbetti alla Triennale di Milano e al Teatro Grande di Brescia.
E’ fondatore e direttore artistico dell’Ensemble Orpheus, che si dedica alla letteratura strumentale del Novecento.
E’ altresì ideatore e direttore artistico del progetto “All’Opera, ragazzi! per la divulgazione del repertorio operistico contemporaneo per ragazzi, giunto alla XIV edizione: negli ultimi anni ha realizzato e diretto Il Vestito nuovo dell’Imperatore di Paolo Furlani, Arcibaldo Sonivari di Mario Pagotto, The little sweep di Benjamin Britten, La Fuggitiva di Lucio Gregoretti, La notte di San Silvestro di Renato Miani, Il Mago di Oz e Il Piccolo Principe di Pierangelo Valtinoni, Racconto di Natale di Carlo Galante.
Collaborator with internationally renowned singers, he has given concerts for prestigious institutions and important festivals throughout Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, Argentina, Mexico and the United States.
From 2002 to 2010 he was official pianist at the Gorizia International Vocal Chamber Music Competition
E’ stato docente di pianoforte in diversi Conservatori italiani, ultima sede il Conservatorio di Milano.
Jury
ANNA MARIA CHIURI
Anna Maria graduated from Boito conservatory of Parma and subsequently refined her studies with Maestro Franco Corelli. Being one of the most appreciated mezzo-soprano in the Italian, German and French repertoire, she’s a regular performer in many major Italian and European opera houses.
Her vast repertoire includes roles as: Fricka in RHEINGOLD e WALKÜRE at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo directed by Graham Vick; Eboli in DON CARLO at the Teatro Regio in Turin conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Hugo De Ana at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan conducted by Fabio Luisi, Klythämestra in ELEKTRA, conducted by Gustav Kuhn, and Herodias in SALOME conducted
by Nikša Bareza both directed by Manfred Schweigkofler in Bolzano, Modena, Ferrara and Piacenza theatres; Amneris in AIDA conducted by Paolo Arrivabeni and Ulrica in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA conducted by Massimo Zanetti at the Opera Royal de Wallonie; FALSTAFF as a concerto in Tel Aviv conducted by Zubin Mehta; Azucena in IL TROVATORE at the Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, Annina in DER ROSENKAVALIER at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta and directed by Eike Gramss, ADRIANA LECOUVREUR at the Teatro Regio in Turin, LA FORZA DEL DESTINO at the Opera Sferisterio Macerata.
She sung in IL TRITTICO by Puccini at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro alla Scala in Milan conducted by R. Chailly, in the role of Herodias in the new SALOME production at the Salzburger Festspiele conducted by Franz Weiser – Möst, in the role of Ulrica in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA at the NCPA of Beijing, DON CARLO at the New National Theater of Tokyo, Barbara in VIOLANTA at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Her upcoming performances include the role of Una Donna in INTOLLERANZA 1960 at the Salzburger Festspiele, LA FAVORITA in Piacenza, AIDA at thr Arena di Verona, Ulrica in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA at Festival Verdi in Parma.
Anna Maria has also performed in the IX SINFONIA by Beethoven at the Lincoln Center in New York as part of the prestigious summer festival Mostly Mozart and at the Teatro Regio in Turin, in MESSA DA REQUIEM by Verdi at the Rudolfinum in Praga and in Washington, in TE DEUM by Bruckner at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta, in EIN SOMMERNACHTSTRAUM by Mendelssohn at the Teatro Regio in Parma conducted by Jurij Temirkanov, in LES TROYENS by Berlioz at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, in REQUIEM by Mozart in Florence conducted by Zubin Mehta.
Anna Maria Chiuri discography includes CD recordings of the contemporary PASQUA FIORENTINA by I. Capitanio (Bongiovanni), the MESSA IN SOL by V.Bellini, PEZZI SACRI by G.B.Sammartini and L’ABBÉ AGATHON by A.Pärt and the ORATORIO DE NÖEL by C.Saint–Saëns. Her performances in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA conducted by Riccardo Chailly, live from the Opera house in Leipzig, IL TRITTICO by Puccini live fromTeatro alla Scala in Milan for Rai Trade, again conducted by Riccardo Chailly, IL PRIGIONIERO, in the role of the Mother with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra are all available on DVD.
She recently debuted at the Bolshoj Theatre of Moscow in the role of Erodiade in the SALOME by Strauss.
FRANCO TRINCA
Born in Rome. At the “S. Cecilia” Conservatoire in his native city he studied with Bruno Aprea, Teresa Procaccini, Pieralberto Biondi and Irma Ravinale and graduated in conducting, composition, piano, choral music and choral conducting.
In addition, he attended master classes in conducting with Guennadi Rozhdestvensky at the "Accademia Musicale Chigiana" in Siena as well as with Donato Renzetti at the "Accademia Musicale Pescarese". During his training he was working as choirmaster and répétiteur at RAI.
In December 1989 he won the 2nd Prize (first prize not awarded) at the "Concorso Internazionale per Giovani Direttori D'Orchestra Carlo Zecchi".
He conducted the following orchestras, among others: Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, Orchestra Filarmonica di Genova, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Symphonieorchester Budapest, Symphonieorchester Russe, Symphonieorchester Biel, Symphonieorchester Luzern, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Orquestra Nacional do Porto.
Since August 1991 he has held the post of 1st conductor at the Stadttheater (municipal theatre) Biel, Switzerland and since August 2001 also that of musical director at the same theatre. Since June 1996 he is moreover the artistic director of the Geneva Chamber Opera and since August 1997 the musical director of the Swiss Opera Studio at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB).
He has conducted more than one hundred operas and a thousand shows. He has also been invited to conduct in Korea (Turandot), Japan (Gianni Schicchi) and Macau (Signor Bruschino). Apart from his activities as a conductor he has performed widely as a pianist: as a soloist, in chamber music formations and as an accompanist for singers (in April 2000 he accompanied the legendary baritone Giuseppe Taddei in a recital in Tokyo).
Last but not least, Franco Trinca has composed various works. For his OMAGGIO A MOZART (for clarinet quartet) he was awarded the 1st Prize at the "Rassegna Internazionale di Composizione“ BRICCIALDI (1991).
Compact Disc Recordings:
Paul Hindemith "Kammermusik Nr. 3" (Nuova Era Records 1992), Geneviene Calame "Sur la margelle du monde" (Musica Helvetica 1995), Niccolò Piccinni "Le finte gemelle" (Dynamic 2002), W.A.Mozart "Klavierkonzert in Es Dur KV 482" (Pan Classic- 2003), Giovanni Paisiello "La Frascatana" (Bongiovanni – 2004)
Selection of Revised Pieces: T.Traetta "Stabat Mater" (Ed. Kunzelmann), G.B.Pergolesi "Psalm – Laetatus sum" (Ed. Kunzelmann), G.Paisiello "La Frascatana" (Ed. Kunzelmann), N.Piccinni "Didon" (Ed. Kunzelmann)
NICHOLAS ISHERWOOD
NICHOLAS ISHERWOOD
E’ oggi uno dei principali cantanti di musica antica e contemporanea nel mondo. Ha lavorato con Joel Cohen, William Christie, Peter Eötvös, Paul McCreesh, Nicholas McGegan, Kent Nagano, Zubin Mehta e Gennadi Rozhdestvensky così come con i compositori Sylvano Bussotti, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Hans Werner Henze, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Olivier Messiaen, Giacinto Scelsi, Karlheinz Stockhausen e Iannis Xenakis, ma anche Pascal Dusapin, Luca Francesconi, Wolfgang Rihm, Francesco Filidei, Matteo Franceschini e Vittorio Montalti in sedi prestigiose nel mondo (La Scala, Covent Garden, Théatre des Champs Elysées, Festival di Salisburgo, Concertgebouw, Staatsoper di Berlino, Konzerthaus di Vienna, Tanglewood). Ha collaborato con registi quali Yuri Lyubimov, Tadashi Suzuki, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Sylvano Bussotti, Michael Hampe, Pierre Audi e La Fura dels Baus.
I ruoli operistici interpretati includono “Antinoo” ne Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria di Monteverdi con Boston Baroque, “Plutone” ne Il Ballo delle Ingrate di Monteverdi all’Opera di Angers, “Claudio” nell’Agrippina di Händel con Nicholas McGegan, “Satiro” nell’Orfeo di Rossi e “ Pan” nell’Alcione di Marais con Les Arts Florissants, “Joas” ne Il Gedeone di Porpora con Martin Haselböck, “Frère Léon” a Saint François d’Assise nell’ultima produzione supervisionata dal compositore, “Der Tod” nelle produzioni di Der Kaiser von di Ullmann Atlantis con la Bach Akademie di Stoccarda, la Konzerthaus di Berlino e 2e2m, “Roméo” in Roméo et Juliette di Dusapin al Festival di Avignone, Montpelier Opera e in tournée, “Lear” in Vision of Lear di Hosokawa per la Biennale di Monaco, il ruolo principale in Micromégas di Mefano, “Bartolo” in Le Nozze di Figaro di Mozart e il ruolo principale in The Mikado all’Eugene Opera, “Truffaldino” in Ariadne auf Naxos al Long Beach Opera, “Giovanni Falcone” in Il Tempo Sospeso di Volo di Nicola Sani al Teatro Cavallerizza di Regio Emilia, la “Direttrice d’albergo” in Adès Powder her Face a Lugo e alla Fenice di Venezia, “Astrodamors” ne Le Grand Macabre di Ligeti con Zoltan Pesko e La Fura dels Baus e “Il Testimone” in Bussotti Tieste, il ruolo del protagonista ne Il Re Nudo di Luca Lombardi, tutti al Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, “Generale Howard” in Chief Joseph di Zender, I 7 tentativi di fuga dal silenzio e Der Tribun di Kagel, tutti alla Staatsoper di Berlino, diversi ruoli nel Don Chisciotte di Zender alla Komische Oper di Berlino, il basso nel Suono Giallo di Alessandro Solbiati all’Opera di Bologna, l’opera di Vittorio Montalti a Reggio Emilia, l’uomo nella Foresta di Matteo Franceschini a Bolzano, il dottore nell’Inondazione di Francesco Filidei alle opere a Rennes e Nantes, e “Lucifero” nelle anteprime mondiali di Montag, Dienstag e Freitag aus Licht di Stockhausen alla Scala e all’Opera di Lipsia e in Donnerstag aus Licht al Covent Garden. Ha improvvisato con Steve Lacy, Joëlle Léandre, Sainkho Namtchilak e David Moss, registrato oltre 65 cd ed è apparso in tre film. Ha tenuto corsi di perfezionamento in tutto il mondo, è stato professore di canto in scuole come l’Ecole Normale de Musique, il CNSMD di Lione e Calarts e attualmente insegna canto e musica da camera al Conservatorio di Montbéliard. Ha pubblicato numerosi articoli e un libro, “The Techniques of Singing” (Bärenreiter, 2013).
IVAN KYURKCHUEV
Ivan Kyurkchiev began his first violin lessons at the age of 5. Later he continued his studies at the National School of Music in violin and classical singing under the guidience of Maestro Georgi Deliganev. He graduated from the State Academy of Music in Sofia where he studied opera singing with Prof. Elena Kiselova.
After his graduation, Ivan Kyurkchiev was awarded a special prize of from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture – the prestigious state scholarship to study at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. For two consecutive seasons, Ivan Kyurkchiev worked under the guidance of the legendary Giulietta Simionato, Giuseppe di Stefano and Luciano Silvestri.
In 1984, Ivan Kyurkchiev won the Enrico Caruso Tenor Competition in Milan, which launched his international carreer. He sang in major theaters such as
the Arena di Verona, Torre del Lago, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro San Carlo, Teatro Reggio di Torino, Opera Marseille, Maggio Fiorentino, Bolshoi Theater and Carnegie Hall to name a few.
From 1996 till 1998 he accepted the position of General Director of the State Opera House in Russe, Bulgaria. Under his direction the theater has performed in numerous European countries, among them Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Swizerland, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain and gained international prestige on the stage of some of the most eminent world opera stages.
In 1998, Mr.Kyurkchiev assumed the position of General Manager and Artistic Director of “Opera Verdi” Bulgaria. Under his guidance, Opera Verdi has managed to create a “Bulgarian Opera Miracle”, consisiting of more than 800 performances around Europe and North America with tremendous popular and critical success. Kyurkchiev has been in a great demand on the juries of many international singing competitions, notably the “Enrico Caruso” Competition in Naples, Italy, the “Ferruccio Tagliavini” Competition in Graz, Austria, and the “Franz.
Kyurkchiev has been in a great demand on the juries of many international singing competitions, notably the “Enrico Caruso” Competition in Naples, Italy, the “Ferruccio Tagliavini” Competition in Graz, Austria, and the “Franz.
