With Maestro Giuliano Mazzoccante (piano) and Maestro Nunzio Fazzini (tenor)
Music by V. Bellini, F.P. Tosti, A.N. Skrjabin, P. Mascagni, G. Donizetti, G. Verdi, F. Liszt, S. Gastaldon, R. Leoncavallo, E. Di Capua, R. Falvo, E. De Curtis
Piano and voice concert by two exceptional Italian masters – the pianist Giuliano Mazzoccante and tenor Nunzio Fazzini. The repertoire includes compositions that enchanted the world during the 19th and 20th Century and which still enchant the audiences of the most famous theatres around the world.
Maestro Giuliano Mazzoccante
Born in Chieti, he studied under the guidance of Lucia Passaglia at the Conservatory “L. Cherubini” in Florence graduating with highest honours. He participated as a student performer on a three-year piano perfection course at the “Accademia Musicale Umbra” where he achieved a “Diploma of Excellence”.
Later, he participated in the “International Master Classes” in Klaipeda (Lithuania), held by Lazar Berman. With him, his concert repertoire deepened and improved with particular attention to the music of F. Liszt, at the European Academy of Music, Erba (CO). He perfected Chamber Music at the International School of Chamber Music in Duino under the guidance of “Trio of Trieste” achieving a “Diploma with Merit”. He has won national and international competitions, including “M. Clementi” in Florence, “Agorà 80″ in Rome, “F. Liszt” in Lucca, and “Città di Stresa”. In 1997 he won second prize at the ‘T. I. M. ” – International Music Tournament; in 1998, he was awarded the prestigious “Prix Venice”; in 1999 he won second prize at the international competition “Ecomusic” of Monopoli (BA); in 2002 was the winner of the 40th International Piano Competition “Arcangelo Speranza” in Taranto. In 2009 he was awarded in the “4th International Tbilisi Piano Competition” in Georgia (WFIMC).
Considerable concert activity has seen him engaged both as a soloist and as a chamber musician at major Italian venues and overseas such as, Milan (Teatro Dal Verme, Casa Verdi), Rome (Palazzo Venezia, Instituto Cervantes), L’Aquila (Teatro Comunale), Trieste (Teatro Verdi, Museo Revoltella), Bologna (Sala Mozart della Filarmonica, Sala Bossi del Conservatorio), Perugia (Sala dei Notari), Venice (Palazzo Albrizzi), Chiavari (Teatro Cantero), Alessandria (Teatro Parvum), Salerno (Sala Napolitano), Rovigno (Croatia), Szombathely (Hungary), Klaipeda, Palanka (Lithuania), Schloss Elmau, Weimar “Liszt House”, Munich “Prinzregenten” Theatre”, Cologne “Hochshule” (Germany), Brno “Sale Bretislava Bakaly” (Czech Republic), Istanbul (Turkey), Utrecht “Concert Hall” (Netherlands), Oxford “Holywell Music Room” (England), Schaffusen (Switzerland), Shanghai (China), La Valletta “Emmanuel Theatre” (Malta). He is regularly invited to hold concerts and master classes at international festivals such as “ClaviCologne Festival” in Germany, the “Malta International Music Festival”, the “International Piano Festival & Competition” in Italy, the “Vipa Festival” in Spain, ecc.
He has been a regular guest of the “International Sommer-Akademie Schloss Pommersfelden” (Germany) where he has performed as a soloist and in chamber music performances and and where he teaches chamber music since 2010. He has appeared as a soloist with different such Camerata Baltica, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonica Abruzzese, Sinfonica di Lecce, Sinfonica di Bari, Solisti Aquilani.
He is often invited to be part of the jury in national and international piano competitions in Germany, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Malta, ecc.
He plays with musicians of calibre like Karl Leister (historical 1st clarinettist of the Berlin Philharmonic), Pavel Berman, Francesco Manara and Franco De Angelis (first violinists of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan), Grazia Raimondi, Antonio Tinelli, Rita D’Arcangelo, Gaetano Di Bacco and Liliana Bernardi. He is the pianist of “Trio DOROGI” with the famous musicians Dora Schwarzberg (violin) and Romain Garioud (cello).
His conspicuous record productions range from solo repertoires, chamber music and to a soloist with an orchestra, including recordings for Wide Classique, DAD Records, Camerata Tokyo, Radio Vatican, Radio Bavaria etc. The monographic CD dedicated to J. Brahms, containing the sonates for clarinet and piano op. 120 No. 1 and no. 2 and the Trio op. 114, Published by Phoenix Classics and distributed by Ducale Music, became a finalist at the IMAIE awards 2009 and was reviewed with acclaim by specialised Italian and overseas magazines (Musica, Suonare News, Giornale della Musica, Fanfare and The Clarinet).
Since 2012 he has been an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Subiaco (Rome) and in 2014 he was awarded from with the “Paul Harris Fellow” for commitment in spreading music and its culture by the Rotary Club of Pescara West.
He is the founder and artistic director of Cenacolo della Musica -International School – in Catignano which aims at promoting artists and the development of the arts.
Maestro Nunzio Fazzini
Italian tenor Nunzio Fazzini graduated in singing and in Music Disciplines (Singing and Chamber music) with honours. He studied under the guidance Gianni Raimondi, Jonathan Papp, Claudio Desderi and Piernarciso Masi.
He performed, with astounding versatility, numerous roles in Italian opera – in Rigoletto, Traviata, Attila and Othello by G. Verdi, performing alongside Mo Renato Bruson in Boheme, Manon Lescaut and Tosca by G. Puccini. He also interpreted roles in comic operas by G.B. Pergolesi, J. Haydn, D. Cimarosa and G. Rossini.
Fazzini was the overall winner of the Rome Festival 2003. His debut was in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro and his breakthrough as a tenor was in 2005 at the Concorso di Soresina.
Nunzio Fazzini’s repertoire includes sacred music by Vivaldi, Schubert, J.S. Bach, Rossini, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Haendel and Berlioz. Worth a mention are his live performances in J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in Jerusalem and Betlehem. He collaborated with national and international orchestras under the direction of Donato Renzetti, Marcello Bufalini, Raphail Philarinos, Massimiliano Stefanelli, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Luigi Piovano and directors Maurizio Nichetti, Ugo Gregoretti, Ivan Stefanutti, Giandomenico Vaccari etc..
The tenor performed in United States of America (Boston and Providence, Philadelphia), in Athens (Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Acropolis), in South Korea (Seoul), in Caracas and Maracay, in Paris (Puteaux), in Oudenaarde (Belgium), in Japan at the Temples of Todaiji in Nara and the Munetsugu Hall Theatre in Nagoya, in Vienne (Lyon, France), at the Manoel Theatre in Valletta and in Victoria (Gozo). He also performed at Casinò of Baden (Vienna) and at the Classic Festival International 2011 of Brest (Belarus). He performed as a solo tenor in the premiere An Italian Requiem by the Swedish composer Joakim Seidevall and in the IX° symphony of Beethoven directed by M° Donato Renzetti, in the mass in C major KV 66 by W.A. Mozart and again in Japan for the concerts of Nara (Akishino Music Hall) and at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo. With pianist R. Rupo he performed concerts at Gran Teatro La Fenice – Venezia, at Volgograd (ex Stalingrad) and in London on behalf of the Istituto Nazionale Tostiano.
He interpreted the role of Stelio Effrena (alias G. D’Annunzio) in Il fuoco by Gabriele D’Annunzio (Stefano Taglietti) in the D’Annunzio Festival, an important cultural event at Pescara.
Fazzini lectured in master classes on Italian vocalism in Russia and Japan. He is currently a professor at the Liceo musicale Misticoni – Bellisario at Pescara, at the Hesa Talent School in Montesilvano and at the Scuola Civica Musicale di S. Giovanni Teatino
The tenor has just finished recording the first opera CD of Tosti’s romances for the Dutch prestigious recorder label “Brilliant Classic” and has been involved in the preparation of production of Tosca by G. Puccini at the Opera House in Seoul (South Korea) and in the production of Te Deum by H. Berlioz for 3 choirs, orchestra and soloist tenor.