- Antonella and Nicola - Flute and guitar
- Antonella and Roby - Two flutes and friends
- Antonella and Antonietta - Flute and piano
- Antonella and Piotr - Flute and cello
- Antonella and Michele - Flute and Celtic harp
Antonella and Nicola: flute and guitar
They have been playing together since 1991, and founded the Horus Ensemble in 1993, believing that to make music means to create and to expand energy. Their repertoire ranges over various genres, from classical to vanguard, with a special love for Piazzolla and ethnic music.
Nicola Oteri is Guitar Professor at the Conservatory of Reggio Calabria (Italy) and regularly plays as a soloist and in several music chamber ensembles.
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“From the Argentine tango to the Indian Ragas: a musical journey through exotic sounds”
In a various and charming pictures, the performance presents the original Histoire du tango of Astor Piazzolla, two enchanting South-American pieces of Villa Lobos and Ernesto Cordero, Distribucao de flores and Fantasia mulata, together with European music by Portuguese Gismonti, Memoria e fado, Greek Dimitri Nicolau , Grottapinta, Italian Bruno Battisti D’Amario , Canzone e danza and finally of Indian Ravi Shankar with his Raga Todi.
Italian music from Bel Canto to modern resonance
In a complete Italian style, the concert offers a pleasant panorama from the best typical romantic opera repertoire to a different new freshly lit sound to the particular combination of flute and guitar. On one side Melodramatic Arias and Rossini’s Crescendo and on the other, the Italian pleasurable melody mixed in with the exquisite taste for color and beauty, exalted from various instrumental timbres. Music by Giuliani, Carulli, Paganini, Margola, Castelnuovo Tedesco and Bruno Battisti D’Amario
Antonella and Roby: two flutes and friends
Friends for more than 20 years, they share a similar musical nature, based on an expressive sound, the refinement of the musical phrasing and the intensity of the communication.
They have been playing together especially in the itinerant concerts, also as a flute quartet, with Carlo Nicita, Pamela De Sensi and Raimondo Broccio; in the interesting formula of the baroque quartet, with harpsichord and cello; they also perform the European fashionable repertoire for two flutes and piano and into the magic context of two flutes and harp.
Roberto Sparacino is Flute Professor at the Ecole Luis Cimino of Lyon (France) and also conductor of the Flute Orchestra Flutitude. He is also a member of several chamber music ensemble.
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Baroque quartet: two flutes, harpsichord and cello
You will find a peaceful atmosphere created with the baroque style in this program, a true pearl in its genre: two important trio sonatas signed respectively by J.S. Bach and by his most famous son C.Ph.E. Bach, create the main structure of the concert, with both their rich counterpoint language and their sinuous nostalgic melodies. The program proposes furthermore easier pieces by Vivaldi, Telemann, Haendel and Pepusch.
Italian Opera for voice and instruments: two flutes, voice and piano
Both available with or without singer, the concert offers a plunge into the typical atmosphere of Italian Opera: the precious Cantabile of the Melodrama alternates with the Virtuoso of the flute duet. The program includes fancy variations and paraphrases onfamous Opera’s Arias, as was typical in the rich and elegant Italian Eighteenth Century salons. Furthermore, music of Verdi, Rossini, Cimarosa, Vivaldi, Galuppi and Mercadante.
Magic harmony for 2 flutes and harp
This ensemble of rare refinement creates a magic mysterious atmosphere! Used frequently for the itinerant concerts, including the riverside or archeological contexts, the concert offers very famous and easy listening pieces: Carmen of Bizet, Infanzia di Cristo of Berlioz, two pieces by Ibert, Aria on the fourth string by Bach, Adagio by Marcello, Entrance by Ibert, Ave Maria by Schubert, G minor sonata by Bach and others.
Antonella and Antonietta: flute and piano
They started their collaboration in 1994, at the vanguard musical workshop of Fiumara d’Arte. They share a passion for the contemporary music and the multimedia performances, which connect themselves to a more global sense that incorporates word, gesture, image and music. In this way, they create a fashionable multimedia recital dedicated to Bilitis, with poetry by Pierre Louys and music by Claude Debussy, and a voyage into the French music and poetry of the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Antonietta Loffredo is specialized in vanguard music and she gives conferences and workshop in several countries about the structure of the contemporary style. She lives in Como (Italy) and teaches Piano at a Regional School.
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From Afrodite to Bilitis. The friendship between Debussy and Louys in fashionable bohemien Paris
“French music is brightness and elegance. French music wants, first of all, to give pleasure” Claude Debussy
Love was, in the ancient times, something sacred in which the beauty was consecrated to the gods. Love, beauty, harmony, goodness are the real qualities of the divine, creating the gate through which the human being can experiment them. Art and love is at the root of the inner compassion that has the power to reconnect man with his soul.
The prolific friendship between Debussy and Louys, two very fashionable men who were also attracted to the female world, testifies the bridge between aesthetic ideals and a new way of life. A mood that connects beauty, sensuality and pleasure to the art world.
The recital is a trip into the elegant and voluptuous poetry of Louys and the huge correspondence full of encouragement and comparison about their deepest beliefs of the two friends. Pictures will also be projected, during the performance of the suggestive and magic music of the genius of Claude Debussy.
Music of Claude Debussy: Syrinx, Chansons de Bilitis, Prelude a l’apres midi d’une faune, Danseud de Delphes.
Voyage into the French music of the beginning of the nineteenth century
Agreeable and elegant plunge into the Parisian bohemien atmosphere, the concert presents music of composers of the whole of Europe, living in Paris at the time it was the capital of the arts, and who were the protagonists of this fashionable word. Gabriel Faurè, Alfredo Casella, George Enescu, Jacques Ibert and Claude Debussy. Poems of Louys will be recited during the concert.
Antonella and Piotr: flute and cello
They share the idea that music can be a meditative moment, brought to the inner reality through vibrations. Antonella and Piotr chose to offer a program dedicated to J.S. Bach, as a spiritual composer, who exalts the inner dimension with the counterpoint language. Alternatively, they offer a program of meditative music with various authors and improvisations.
Piotr Cwojdzinski is First Cello at the Arena of Verona Theater. He performes in various music chamber ensemble all over the world and also plays Tibetan Bells.
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Dedicated to Johan Sebastian Bach
Two pieces for solo instrument, such as the first suite for solo cello and the partita for solo flute create the main structure of the concert. Three sonatas follow for flute and cello, adapted by the performers themselves: the G minor, the B minor and the E minor.
Meditation for two
Music and exercises are here connected in order to give people the experience of living music in an inner deep dimension. Relaxing exercises, visualizations and sharing of emotions, are guided and matched with live music, played by these two magic instruments. Music of Villa Lobos, Nicotra, Jolivet, Debussy, Ravi Shankar, and free improvisations.
Antonella and Michele: flute and Celtic harp
Sharing a very similar happy and joyful nature, able to extend harmony all around, Antonella and Michele created an original performing formula, based on meditation music composed or arranged by themselves. The aim is to create harmony through sounds, to give the soul both peace and variety. The perfect connection between the timbre of flute and celtic harp creates in itself a magic and harmonious atmosphere.
Michele Valcanover studies flute and classical harp at the Music Conservatory of Trento, where he lives. He likes to travel, to know people and has several different interests, the greatest of which are music and communication.
Concert ProposalS
MUSIC FOR THE INNER HARMONY
Arrangements of music of Villa Lobos, Debussy, Anderson, Ibert, and others.
The following proposals can be performed either for solo flute, or for flute and celtic harp: