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AKANTHOS
ENSEMBLE
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Key Sound
in cooperation with
Rai Trade
Akanthos Ensemble is an Italian group of
contemporary music constituted by interpreters of
reputation and prestige. Its name wants to honor
Iannis Xenakis. Its main objective is to constitute a
chamber music group able to distinguish itself
interpreting and programming the best aspects of
the international scene.
Akanthos Ensemble promotes, participates and
encourages collaborations with various musicians
and was invited from festivals and European
seasons such as Festival "Ars Musica" della SWF
Rottenburg, Sonopolis - Teatro La Fenice Venezia,
Bucarest, Fondazione Scelsi Roma, La Spezia,
Musica Verticale - Goethe Institut Roma,
Perspektiven Heilbronn, Würzburg, Freiburg, Teatro
Pergolesi Jesi, etc.
Project 2005 - 2006
The plan is born like cultural homage
to East Europe and in particular to
Hungary by some Italian authors
whose music is able to compare the
two musical spirits.
Components
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Monica BENVENUTI, voice
Andrea CECCOMORI, flute
Pierluigi RUGGIERO, cello
Maurizio BEN OMAR, percussion
Silvia BELFIORE, piano
Programs
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Program 1
Ivan Vandor – Visione (I performance)
Hollós Máté - I wander the world
Hollós Máté - Canto nostalgico
Iván Madarász - J.J.Jatekai
Giovanni Guaccero - Madrigaletti (I performance)
Sugár Miklós - Percupicsy
Stefano Taglietti - Ancestral Human Hymn
for ensemble
for bass flute, piano and tape
for cello
for flute, cello and piano
for ensemble
for percussion and tape
for ensemble
(I performance)
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Program 2
Ivan Vandor - Visione (I performance)
Luca Lombardi - Flatus
Aldo Clementi - new work (I performance)
Sylvano Bussotti - Justine /Juliette
for ensemble
for flute
for piano and percussion
for voice
(solo from “Passion selon Sade”)
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Giovanni Guaccero - Madrigaletti (I performance)
Luciano Berio - Les mots sont allées
Stefano Taglietti - Ancestral Human Hymn
(I performance)
for ensemble
for cello solo
for ensemble
MONICA BENVENUTI
voice
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Born in Florence, after the bachelor in Letters and Philosophy, she has undertaken the
singing studies, dedicating herself to the lyric repertory and to the chamber music
From 1993, year of her debut like protagonist of L’incoronazione di Poppea of Monteverdi,
she has interpreted (always in main roles) the following works: Orfeo e Il ritorno di Ulisse
in patria of Monteverdi, Euridice of Peri, La rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo of
Cavalieri, Dido and Aeneas of Purcell, Venus and Adonis of Blow, Il palazzo incantato di
Atlante of Rossi, Tamerlano of Haendel, La serva padrona e Livietta e Tracollo of
Pergolesi, Giannina e Bernardone of Cimarosa, Bastiano e Bastiana of Mozart, Prima la
musica e poi le parole of Salieri, L’eroismo ridicolo of Spontini, Haensel e Gretel of
Humperdinck, Il segreto di Susanna of Wolf-Ferrari.
Frequent are the incursions in the chamber and symphonic repertory, between which Ah,
perfido! and the IX Sinfonia of Beethoven, the Petite Messe Solemnelle of Rossini, the
Requiem, the Kronugsmesse and several concert arias of Mozart, the Wesendonk lieder
of Wagner, and vary song cycles, between which are to remember Des knaben
Wunderhorn of Mahler, Harawi of Messiaen and a monographic concert dedicated to Luigi
Dallapiccola for the Amici della Musica of Firenze.
She has developed, later on, a specific interest for the 1900's and contemporary music
that brought her to explore the potentialities of the human voice in connection with the
various musical languages and to the electronic experimentations. To confirm her jobsearch, numerous authors entrust her their own jobs: Steve Reich, Sylvano Bussotti, etc.
In the last years, after numerous experiences like singer-actress, she dedicated herself to
a repertory of musical theatre that includes works like: La voix humaine of Poulenc,
Mahagonny Songspiel of Weill, La tragèdie de Carmen from Bizet, beside works
especially dedicated to her.
She has performed a concert Italy, Köln, Tokio, Brazil.
In June 2003 in partnership with the Association of Classic Culture of La Spezia, she has
performed (in first absolute) with the actress Milena Vukotic, a show of music theatre on
texts of Sofocle’s text and music of Britten, Strauss, Strawinsky and other jobs in first
absolute execution.
She has realized a very large record production and several radio and television
recordings, between them: L’incoronazione di Poppea to the Teatro antico di Sabbioneta
and a recital in memory of Cathy Berberian.
ANDREA CECCOMORI
flute
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Graduated at the Conservatory "Morlacchi" in Perugia, and
completed his study with other important flutists and
musicians: S.Gazzelloni at Accademia Musicale Chigiana
of Siena, M. Ancillotti, A. Persichilli, M. Larrieu, S. Palm, R.
Fabbriciani, M. Stockhausen and so many others.
He plays classic and contemporary music and he has
collaborated with the most important italian and
international festivals (Cagliari, Rome, Darmstadt, Zagreb,
Paris, Stockholm, Prague, Helsiniki, Germany, Spain, USA,
African tour, Brasil tour.
He has performed so many premiers of the following
composers: Baggiani, Battista, Porena, D'Amico, Luporini,
Sbacco, Pappalardo, Bianchini, Bazan, Cocco, Garcia,
D’Antò, Festa, Piacentini, Sollazzi, Reiner, Andriessen,
Piva, Ceccarelli, Mendoza, Rendine, Garau, De Rossi Re,
Francia, Ghezzo, Cresta, D'Alfornso, Perez, Ermirio,
Fellegara, Romani.
He was awarded prizes at international competition of
Stresa (for contemporary music) and recorded for the
Amiata records (New Music Master 1996,The celestine
Suite 1999),BMG/Ricordi and Edipan. Recorded by RaiUno
Television, Ria RadioUno and RadioTre. He works with
RaiTrade to spreading for contemporary Italian music.
He plays all flutes family.
PIERLUIGI RUGGIERO
cello
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He was born in November 1974 in L’Aquila.
He graduated with full marks with George Schultis, and he attended also the
Composition course of Paolo Arcà at the Conservatory of L’Aquila. He attended
several specialization courses.
1994 to 1996 he was a member of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana.
He holds concerts in Italy and abroad as a soloist and in chamber music groups.
Recently he has been in tour in Pakistan ( Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad), India
(Bombay, Calcutta, Goa and New Delhi) Sweden (Stockholm, Goteborg and
Boras) Brazil ( Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bertioca, Foz de Iguaçu e Curitiba).
He won several contests in a duo with a piano: 1st Prize at the National Contest
«Città di Ruvo di Puglia»,1994; 2nd Prize at the National Contest «A.M.A.
Calabria»,1994; 1st Prize at the National Contest «Città di Civita D’Antino»,1995;
1st Prize at the International Chamber Music Contest « Città di Acqui
Terme»,1996.
As a member of the Camerata Anxanum he has been in tour in Belgium, Holland,
England and France and has recorded two CD for the Bongiovanni Record
Company. As a cellist in the Quartetto Mediterraneo he has recorded also for RAI
and Radio Vaticana.
He’s an active member of the Orchestra Giovanile of the National Accademy of S.
Cecilia, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. He’s also the Artistic Director of the
Cultural Association “Espressione D’Arte” and he is the person in charge of the
internal group “Italian Modern Ensemble”.
MAURIZIO BEN OMAR
percussion
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Graduated in percussion with full marks, he studied piano and
composition, too. He played in the most important orchestras
in Italy and he has held concerts like soloist and in chamber
music in the five continents with ensembles, soloists and
conductors like: Quartetto Arditti, P.Y. Artaud, Kees Boeke,
Mario Brunello, Bruno Canino, Ensemble Intercontemporain,
Jill Feldmann, Andrea Lucchesini, Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Composers like Bussotti, Corghi, Donatoni, Einaudi, Gorli,
Manca, Melchiorre, Mosca, Sciarrino, Pisati, Solbiati, Taglietti
have dedicated own works to him. He has collaborated with
Giacinto Scelsi.
He’s teacher of percussion in the Milan Conservatory and his
students won national and international competitions. He
recorded like soloist for Ricordi, Bmg Ariola and Salabert.
In 1984 he founded the percussions ensemble Naqqâra.
SILVIA BELFIORE
piano
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Silvia Belfiore was born in Alessandria (Italy) on 1967.
She studied piano with Massimo Paderni (graduated at the "Vivaldi"
conservatory of Alessandria, 1989), Roberto Szidon, Marianne
Schröder, Aloys Kontarsky, Jean Micault, Enrica Cavallo, Massimiliano
Damerini, Pier Narciso Masi. Graduated in Musicology at the Bologna
University (1991) with full marks, she frequented workshops with
Sergiu Celibidache, Piero Rattalino.
She obtained a scholarship by the "Ferienkurse für neue Musik" (1990
and 1992). She got various honours.
She was teacher of piano and music history in various conservatory of
music in Italy (1992-93 and 1996-2005) and in Portugal (1993-95).
She recorded for the Moldavian and Brazilian television, Bavarian
Radio and six CDs for solo piano or chamber music with classical and
contemporary repertory.
Composers like Helmut Bieler, Mauro Bortolotti, Aldo Brizzi, Nicola
Cisternino, Gianvincenzo Cresta, Giorgio Ghisetti, Hosrt Lohse, Martin
Kürshner, Biagio Putignano, Gerardo Tristano, Anatol Vieru have
dedicated own works to her.
Silvia Belfiore, interested to the most various shapes of expression and
artistic collaboration, has held beyond 330 concerts like soloist and in
chamber music in Europe, America and Asia.
She is the artistic director of “Omaggio a ...”, international festival of
Contemporary Music in Acqui Terme (AL).
Concerts
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Hungary (Budapest Philharmonic and
Radio)
Italy (Rome, Venice, Turin, Rovigo,
Miland, Ancona, Teramo, L’Aquila,
Perugia, Acqui Terme)
French (Nice, Aix en Provence).
Spain
Holland
Portugal
Percussion instruments required
vibraphone - glockenspiel - 2 bongos
- 6 tom-toms – bass drum - 5
cymbals - 2 tam-tam, little e medium
- 3 wood blocks - 6 temple blocks
Contacts
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www.keysound.it
e-mail: [email protected]
tel. e fax: +39 06 8183579
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