I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala & Filippo Arlia
Biography I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala & Filippo Arlia
The Virtuosi del Teatro Alla Scala
were formed from the desire of the first soloists of the Teatro's orchestra to share the musical experience gained through years of collaboration with the world's best conductors, and set themselves the goal from the outset of guaranteeing the highest possible artistic quality in their performances, thanks to a careful selection of their members. The group's repertoire, which is very flexible and versatile, ranges from the great Baroque repertoire to Mozart's chamber music repertoire of serenades, divertissements and symphonies, from the soloist and orchestra concertos of the 18th century to period transcriptions of Italian operas, and the entire 20th century and contemporary repertoire for small chamber orchestra. The group has so far performed in the most important Italian theatres and at festivals such as the Torrechiara Festival, dedicated to Renata Tebaldi, and the Bologna Festival in whose closing concert they performed with soprano Barbara Frittoli. This latest collaboration also resulted in the orchestra's first record product, live, for SONY, released in March 2009.
Filippo Arlia
(* 1989) is an Italian pianist and conductor. He is considered one of the most brilliant and versatile Italian musicians of his generation. He completed his piano studies with Lethea Cifarelli at the “F.Torrefranca” Conservatory in Vibo Valentia at the age of 17. He then completed his law studies at the “Magna Graecia” University in Catanzaro. He made his debut as a soloist on the international stage with a European tour dedicated to G. Gershwin. Filippo Arlia feels a special connection with Gershwin, also because of his collaboration with Michel Camilo.
Together with Cesare Chiacchiaretta, Filippo Arlia forms the ensemble “Duettango”, which debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2015. In 2017, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Piazzolla’s death, Duettango released a CD with works by Piazzolla, which won the “Piazzolla Award” and the “Orpheus Award” in 2018 .
In 2011, Arlia founded the Philharmonic Orchestra of Calabria, of which he remains conductor and director to this day. Under his leadership, the orchestra has worked with some of the most famous musicians of our time, including Sergei Krylov, Yuri Shishkin, Michel Camilo, Sergei Nakariakov, Ilya Grubert, Giovanni Sollima and Danilo Rea.
Arlia has given more than 350 concerts as a soloist and conductor in more than 20 countries around the world and has conducted prestigious orchestras, including the Cluj De Tineret Orchestra, the Adana Cukurova State Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra “M Jora” of Bacau, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra of Vladivostok, the City of Ferrara Orchestra, the New Scarlatti Orchestra of Naples, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Akademik Baskent Orchestra of Ankara, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Estado de Mexico, the Orchestra of the University of New Leon in Monterrey, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the South Czech Philharmonic, the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra, the New England Symphony Orchestra, the Astana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre do Norte di Porto, the Plovdiv State Opera Orchestra, the Lower Silesian Philharmonic, the Hradec Kralové Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
At his debut at the Verona Theater he conducted the Berlin Symphony Orchestra with Stefano Bollani at the piano (Rhapsody in Blue by G. Gershwin).
Since 2014 he has been director of the musicological institute “PI Tchaikovsky” in Nocera Terinese (CZ), where he holds a chair for piano and orchestral conducting. In 2018 he directed the International Festival “R. Leoncavallo” in Montalto Uffugo.
In 2017, Filippo Arlia was awarded the Gold Medal for orchestral conducting and the interpretation of the great symphonic repertoire of the twentieth century by the University “La Sapienza” in Rome.
