Giuliano Carmignola & Venice Baroque Orchestra
Biography Giuliano Carmignola & Venice Baroque Orchestra
Giuliano Carmignola - Violinst
Born in Treviso, where the Vivaldi renaissance started 50 years ago, Giuliano Carmignola began his violin studies with his father. His first teacher at the Venice Conservatory, Luigi Ferro, was a soloist with the Scuola Veneziana Orchestra (created in 1947 by Angelo Ephrikian to perform Vivaldi’s music) and later played with the Virtuosi di Roma, with whom Carmignola was in turn to appear as a soloist from 1970 to 1978, while succeeding Ferro as a teacher in Venice. Carmignola’s career was launched at the beginning of the 1970s with his successes in national and international competitions. Having attended master classes with Nathan Milstein, Franco Gulli and Henryk Szeryng, he went on to perform the major violin works of the 19th and 20th centuries under conductors of the stature of Claudio Abbado, Eliahu Inbal, Peter Maag and Giuseppe Sinopoli, in-cluding giving the Italian premiere of Henri Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto.
As a teacher, Carmignola has been on the staff of the Musikhochschule in Lucerne and the Accade-mia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. His distinctions include the title of Accademico of the Reale Acca-demia Filarmonica in Bologna and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Giuliano Carmignola plays the “Baillot” Stradivari (1732), presented to him by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna for his artistic achievements and his commitment to that city’s Orchestra Mozart.
Andrea Marcon - Conductor
The Venice Baroque Orchestra’s founder and director, Andrea Marcon, was born in Treviso in 1963 and received a diploma in early music from Basle’s Schola Cantorum for his organ and harpsichord studies with Jean-Claude Zehnder. Among his other influential teachers were Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Hans van Nieuwkoop, Jesper Christensen, Harald Vogel and Ton Koopman. From 1983 to 1997, he was harpsichordist and organist of the Treviso-based early music ensemble Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca. He also founded and directed the International Organ Festival “Città di Treviso”, playing a prominent role in the restoration of the city’s historic organs. He is a professor of harpsichord, organ and interpretation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (since 1997), and has also been visiting professor at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Founded in 1997 by Baroque scholar and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon, the Venice Baroque Orchestra is recognized as one of the premier ensembles devoted to period instrument performance. The Orchestra has received wide critical acclaim for its concert and opera performances throughout North America, Europe, South America, Japan and Korea.
Highlights of the 2011/12 season included the opening of the Bruge Concertgebouw season with Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and Gloria; concerts in Lisbon and France with soprano Patricia Petibon; concert performances of their pasticcio of Metastasio’s L’Olimpiade in London, Dijon, Brussels, Paris, Athens, Rome and Siena, performances with violinist Giuliano Carmignola at the Enescu Festival, the Gstaad and Dubrovnik festivals, and in Geneva and Fénétrange; and concerts in Italy and Russia with mezzo-soprano Romina Basso and with Simone Kermes in Poland, as well as performances of Baroque multi-instrument concertos throughout Europe.
The 2010/11 season featured a 28-city tour of the United States with violinist Robert McDuffie in premiere performances of Philip Glass’s new violin concerto, The American Four Seasons; a tour of Japan and Korea with violinist Giuliano Carmignola; concerts in Austria and France with soprano Patricia Petibon; Vivaldi’s La senna festeggiante performed in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; Baroque cello concertos with Gautier Capuçon in Germany; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at Théâtre des Champs Elysées with soprano Veronica Cangemi and contralto Sara Mingardo; a US tour with violinists Giuliano Carmignola and Giulio Plotino; Vivaldi arias with Romina Basso in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Monteverdi’s Vespers in Leipzig, and a tour of summer festivals in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland featuring mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená. In recent seasons, the Orchestra has also performed with
Cecilia Bartoli, Anna Netrebko, Vivica Genaux, Andreas Scholl, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Roberta Invernizzi, Simone Kermes and Viktoria Mullova.
