BANDA DELL’ESERCITO CONCERTO

Founded in 1964, the Army Band consists of from performers who graduated from conservatories and were recruited through a national competition.

It is active both for institutional services and in intense concert activity, which has seen it perform in countless locations in Italy and abroad, where it has performed in France, Holland, Malta, Belgium, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, Austria, Egypt, Germany, and the USA.

In recent years she has been, among other things, a guest of the National Verdi Celebrations, the "Feste Musicali" in Bologna, the International Festival of Military Bands in Modena, and participated, with other artists including Placido Domingo, in the Gala Concert for the 90th birthday of Gian Carlo Menotti (Spoleto, 2001).

She took part in the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in the 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005 editions and gave the opening concert of the 2002 edition; in 2005 she was guest of honor at the International Competition "Il Flicorno d'oro" in Riva del Garda; in 2004 and 2005, at the invitation of Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, she took part, at the Parco della Musica in Rome, in the inaugural evening of the "K Festival," a triennial festival dedicated to Mozart; in 2006 she was included ...in the Settembre Musica program to Turin and in the symphonic season of the GOG in Genoa.

In 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 he conducted Master Courses attended by conductors who came specially from some American universities in cooperation with the National Band Association of the USA.

It has collaborated with internationally renowned soloists such as Jacques Mauger and Steven Mead and is the first and still the only Italian military ensemble to have had "guest conductors" on the podium, including Daniele Carnevali, Thomas Fraschillo and David Gregory.

His repertoire ranges from the celebratory to the lyrical symphonic, with a particular predilection for original music for Band, deepened both in historical pages and in pieces with the most vivid actuality.

His performance of the Italian National Anthem, recorded in the version faithful to Novaro's original score, was chosen and included, among the symbols of the Republic, on the website of the Quirinale. He has to his credit the presence to numerous radio and TV broadcasts and an intense record production, recently expanded with CDs containing live recordings of the 2001 and 2003 concerts at the "International Festival of Military Bands" in Modena, with the CDs "Cinecittà", "Flumen" and "The Age of Mozart" made for Edizioni Scomegna, of the CD "Bella Italia" (Soloist Steven Mead) for Bocchino Editions in London, with the CD "Musical Divagations" published by Eufonia Editions, and recently with a CD of music by Luigi Zaninelli recorded in a co-production with the American Universities of Southern Mississippi and Illinois.

Led in the past by Maestros Amleto Lacerenza, Marino Bartoloni, Domenico Cavallo (f.f.), Fulvio Creux and since 2013 by Maestro Antonella Bona.