RASSEGNA ORGANISTICA "LUIGI ANTONINI"

Born in Ancona in 1965.

He graduated in Organ and Organ Composition with top marks under the guidance of Maestro Patrizia Tarducci and in Harpsichord, again with top marks, at the "G. Rossini" Conservatory of Music in Pesaro, where he later obtained a diploma in Composition under the guidance of Maestro Mauro Ferrante.

Of great importance to his artistic training were lessons with Maestros Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Liuwe Tamminga.

He won the first edition of the "F. Barocci" scholarship for young organists, established in Ancona in 1986.

In 1992 he won the 3rd prize at the 1st International Organ Competition "City of Milan," and in 1994 the 4th prize at the 11th International Organ Competition in Brugge, Belgium.

In 1998, he won first prize at the prestigious 12th International Organ Competition "Paul Hofhaimer" in Innsbruck, Austria, awarded only four times in its 40-year history.

He has given master classes and master classes and performed in numerous important festivals in Italy and abroad (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine) mainly as a soloist, but also in various chamber and orchestral ensembles.

He currently holds the chair of Organ and Organ Composition at the "F. Morlacchi" Conservatory of Music in Perugia.

He edited, for Il Levante Libreria Editrice (Tastata collection), the publication of the _Canzoni de intavolatura d'organo fatte alla francese _(1599) by Vincenzo Pellegrini (c. 1562 - 1630).

He has also recorded for the record companies Symphonia, La Bottega Discantica, Tactus, ORF Edition - Alte Musik, Dynamic, Arion - Pierre Verany, Motette, Deutsche Grammophon (with Venice Baroque Orchestra), CPO, Elegia Records, Antichi organi del canavese, Brilliant Classics; record releases have been reviewed and reported from major magazines.

Andrea Mion was born to Venice, on December 29, 1965 and graduated in Oboe from the "Benedetto Marcello" Conservatory of Venice with highest honors. He continued his musical studies by taking advanced courses on the oboe and from chamber music taught by Maestros Omar Zoboli, Paolo Pollastri and from Diego Dini Ciacci.

In 1993 he graduated from the Scuola Civica di Milano in Baroque Oboe with Maestro Paolo Grazzi. In the same year he received honorable mention at the Brugge International Competition for the soloist category.

Since 1999, he has been teaching Oboe, Baroque Oboe and Music from chamber music for the preclassical repertoire at the Superior Institute of Musical Studies "Giulio Briccialdi" in Terni.

He has given master classes at the music conservatories of Castelfranco Veneto, Ferrara, Vicenza, Vienna, Pamplona, Aix-en-Provence and Tallinn.

He performs concerts mainly in ensembles and orchestras with historical instruments such as: Concerto Italiano, Les Arts Flòrissants, Il Giardino Armonico, Wiener Akademie, Ars Antiqua Austria, La Risonanza, I Barocchisti, Radio della Svizzera Italiana, I Suonatori della Gioiosa Marca, Venice Baroque Orchestra.

In 2004 he was invited to to participate to two concert cycles, organized by CIDIM, in South America with J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and the Oboe Concerto by to. Marcello.

Also in 2004 he played with the Concerto Italiano ensemble the Concerto in A minor by to.Vivaldi to Paris, Brussels, Luxembourg and Palma de Mallorca.

In the same year he participated in a tour of Sicily with the ensemble "La Risonanza," a program dedicated to G.F.Handel, with the Concerto in G minor for oboe and orchestra.

Lately he has made recordings for Erato, Opus 111, Naive, ed. Teldec, and Astree.

Born to Bologna in 1958, he graduated in Organ, Harpsichord and Singing from the Conservatories of Bologna and Parma, later specializing with Klemens Schnorr to Munich. He graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Bologna. He is professor of Organ at the Conservatorio "G.B. Martini" in Bologna. Among his many recordings are the complete works for organ by Ottorino Respighi and Goffredo Giarda for Tactus (a record company with which he is now engaged in the recording of Marco Enrico Bossi'sopera omnia organistica) and by Guido Alberto Fano and Giovanni Tebaldini for Elegia. He has edited numerous critical reviews, including Fiori Musicali by G. Frescobaldi, theopera complete keyboard works by to. Scarlatti and by G.B. Martini (Ut Orpheus), a nine-volume anthology of Italian organ music, M.E. Bossi'sOpera Omnia Organistica, and a study on the analysis and interpretation of César Franck's Trois Chorals (Carrara). Since 1994, he has been co-editor-in-chief of the magazine "Arte Organaria & Organistica." He is a member of the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna and since 1988 artistic director of the international concert series "Ancient Organs, a heritage from ascoltare." In March 2005 he played at Musashino-Hall in Tokyo, in October 2006 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and in May 2008 he gave a concert tour in Russia. In 2009 and 2011 he lectured on Italian music at the Faculty of Musicology in Geneva. In 2005 he was awarded the title of Cavaliere dell'Ordine "Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana" by President Ciampi.