Amore e simpatia: alla scoperta della Viola d'Amore: Louis Tossaint Milandre (18th century)

mercoledì 30 marzo 2011

Louis Tossaint Milandre (18th century)

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Mauro Righini (viola, baroque viola and viola d'amore)

Born in Milan, he studied Violin and Viola at the Scuola Civica of Music of his city with Armando Burattin (viola solo in the Teatro alla Scala); he got his master degree in Viola at the Conservatory in Milan. He also took master classes with Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi and Dino Asciolla (Quartetto Italiano); with the Hungarian pianist Gyorgy Sebok at the International master classes in Ernen (Switzerland).
He played as First Viola in the Italian Youth Orchestra in Fiesole in 1980.

Starting from 1989 he has been concentrating mostly on ancient music and worked with Laura Alvini, Roberto Gini, E. Gatti, Christopher Hogwood, Andrea Marcon, René Clemencic, Sergio Vartolo, C. Rousset, M. Radulescu, E.Kirby, J.Bowman, J.C.Malgoire, C. Coin; along the years he took part in the most important European Festivals, concerts in Europa, Canada, USA and South America and recorded for Tactus, Virgin, Naxos, Opus 111, Bongiovanni, Amadeus, Chandos, Accord, Deutsche Grammophone, RAI, RTSI, Radio France-Musique, Radio National Espanola.

In 1991 he founded the Quartetto Modi with the main aim to study the still unknown quartett repertoire of the classical and romantic period playing on original instruments; with the Quartetto Modi he recorded the Paisiello quartets (Bongiovanni) for the first time.
In 1996 was one of the founding members of the group Lo Specchio dei Suoni together with the guitar player Francesco Biraghi; through this cooperation he has devoted himself to the research and study of chamber music of the 18th and 19th century playing with original instruments and bows. The group Lo Specchio dei Suoni has performed several concerts in Italy and all over Europe; on May 27th, 2000 a big event on the chamber works of Nicolò Paganini was performed in Novara.

Alongside his activity as an viola player, Mauro Righini has dedicated himself to the revival of the viola d’amore, playing as a solo with the Ensemble Baroque in Nice, Ensemble Werther, I Virtuosi delle Muse, Il Viaggio Musicale, the Orchestra Barocca del Conservatorio di Vicenza and with the Orchestra Barocca di Novara; moreover he played at the Teatro Comunale in Firenze and Bologna, at S. Cecilia in Roma, in Lyon and Nice. In the occasion of the Feste Musicali of San Rocco in Venice, he premiered the works of G. Ferrandini (1998) and recorded the Oratorio Juditha Triumphans of Vivaldi (Modo Antiquo, 2000).
In 2008 Mauro Righini will perform them during several concerts both in Italy and Germany, and in 2010 he has recorded the Six Viola d'amore Lessons by Attilio Ariosti.

They wrote about him: “Mauro Righini”, one of the most relevant Italian virtuosi of the viola d’amore” (Il giornale di Vicenza, 2nd May 2001). “Mauro Righini with his viola d’amore plays with great performing art the aria of Juditha: Quanto magis generosa” (Amadeus, Dec. 2000).

He plays a big viola manufactured by Giacomo Zanoli (Verona, 1749) and two violas d’amore; the most ancient is a Venetian instrument, 6 strings, dating back to 1732, the most recent, with 7 strings, was manufactured by Edoardo Gorr in Cremona in 1991.
The wide range of bows used during his performances includes several ancient French bows manufactured between the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century.

Since 1984

Amore e simpatia: alla scoperta della Viola d'Amore

mercoledì 30 marzo 2011

Louis Tossaint Milandre (18th century)

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