YOUNG TALENTS ORCHESTRA EY

Talent to be nurtured needs concrete opportunities to emerge; with this spirit EY gave birth in 2013 to the Young Talents Orchestra EY: a symphony orchestra composed of from very young people, between 17 and 26 years old from from every corner of Italy, each with their own history, character and background (from those who undertook university studies in parallel to those who are children of art to those who discovered music studies by chance), but all united by a great passion for Music and the dream of one day being able to cultivate it within a symphonic formation. Led by artistic and musical director Carlo Rizzari, who boasts numerous international collaborations with the most important Italian and European orchestras, the Young Talents Orchestra EY represents a unicum in Italy, as these young EY musicians have the opportunity to take free advanced training courses, aimed at deepening every aspect of ensemble music and orchestra work. A training course that, exploiting the real potential of each of them and of the noble art of music, aims not only at professional specialization but at the growth of the individual as a whole. Students have the opportunity to rub elbows in the classroom with professional musicians and teachers endowed with an impeccable artistic record and established international reputation, from the best Italian orchestras (Francesco Bossone, Andrea Oliva, Gabriele Geminiani, Sandro Laffranchini, Andrea Lucchi, Carlo Maria Parazzoli, Antonio Ruggeri). The significant background of all members of the Artistic Direction contributes, together with the care taken in the selection of each individual candidate, to nurture the degree of excellence of the Young Talents Orchestra EY which, although recently established, already has to its credit several concerts inside prestigious halls and venues such as Palazzo della Cancelleria and Auditorium della Conciliazione to Rome, the festival "I Concerti nel Parco" to Villa Pamphilj in Rome, Teatro Ristori in Verona, Teatro Grande in Brescia and Auditorium Fondazione Cariplo in Milan, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and Conservatories G. Verdi of Milan and Turin, the Salone dei Cinquecento to Florence, and the Teatro Duse in Bologna. He collaborates with fine soloists of international caliber such as Salvatore Accardo, Francesca Dego, soprano Rosa Feola, and baritone Sergio Vitale.

Carlo Rizzari has conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica di Montréal, Orchestra della Suisse Romande, Orchestra Sinfonica di Graz, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Orchestra della Fondazione Toscanini, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi musicali di Milano, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. Fundamental to his training was his experience since 2006 as assistant conductor to Antonio Pappano at theAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia to Rome. With the same role, he was invited from Claudio Abbado for a series of Orchestra Mozart concerts to Bologna and Lucerne. He regularly conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia both in the symphonic season and in Family Concerts working with great soloists such as John Osborn, Barry Banks, Celso Albelo, Sonia Ganassi, Lang Lang Lang and in didactic initiatives (making a valuable contribution to the specialization courses of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia addressed to opera singers - Opera Studio - and to young musicians - the Ensemble Novecento). At the invitation of Kent Nagano, he began a significant collaboration with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, which he conducted within the Knowlton Festival program and, in the brand new Performing Art Center, with a program dedicated to belcanto and to Respighi (Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome). He inaugurated the 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of the Reate Festival to Rieti, conducting at the Flavio Vespasiano Theater Donizetti's Il Campanello, Puccini's _Gianni Schicchi_, Ravel'sHeure Espagnole, and Rossini'sAdina. As a bel canto expert, he conducted Don Pasquale at the Teatro Sao Carlo in Lisbon. For the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari he conducted L. van Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies and, with great success, a new production of Rigoletto at the Petruzzelli in Bari, which was repeated at the Carlo Felice in Genoa. He was one of the four conductors of the contemporary music festival PlayIT-2014 (winner of the Abbiati Prize) with the Orchestra Regionale Toscana. to May 2016 his brilliant debut at the Hamburg Staatsoper with Traviata, which inaugurated a regular collaboration with performances of such works as Carmen, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Born to Salerno in 1997, Gennaro Cardaropoli distinguished himself by winning the Arthur Grumiaux 1st Grand Prize Competition. He was also the overall winner of the Giorgetti Violin Competition of the La Scala Philharmonic in Milan. He has performed in Europe, Russia and Lithuania, Africa and Israel, China and the United States. He has also given various concerts to Belfast at Qeen´s University, to Paris, Leon, Lugano, Berlin. He performed from soloist Tchaikovsky´s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with the La Verdi Orchestra of Milan conducted from Zhang Xian, Brahms´ double Concerto and Paganini´s Concerto No. 1 with the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra. He received his diploma from the Conservatory of Avellino, his master´s degree from the Conservatory of Lugano with P. Berman and his master´s degree from the Stauffer Academy with M° Accardo. He plays a G. B. Guadagnini violin, Turin 1783 and uses a W. E. Hill bow that belonged to Franco Gulli courtesy of the Milan Pro-channel Foundation.