Invitation at the 21st Music Festival of Nations - Rome (Italy) - (2008-11-20)
SUMMER SEASON 2009
ROME - ITALY - "CONCERTI DEL TEMPIETTO"
ARCHELOGICAL AREA OF MARCELLUS' THEATRE
COURTYARD OF "CASINA DELLE CIVETTE" - VILLA TORLONIA
Every evening (8.30 p.m.) two Classical Music Concerts
"The Tempietto's CONCERTS - Music Festival of Nations represent a PERSONAL
PROFESSIONAL PROMOTING SERVICE offered on request by Cultural Association IL TEMPIETTO to musicians and artists from all over the world"

Would you like to perform at the 21st Music Festival of Nations next Summer 2009 ? The Festival is held in Rome.
If you are interested call
(39) 06 87 13 15 90 , (39) 348 , 780 43 14,
Fax (39) 06 233 226 360 , or send e-mail to afjs@tiscali.it , edeivan@tempietto.it

Addres: Concerti del Tempietto
Angelo Filippo Jannoni Sebastianini / Ede Ivan
P.O. Box 95 - Agenzia Roma - Tor Pignattara
Via Canosa di Puglia, 12
00177 Roma - ITALY
www.tempietto.it


Senigallia (Italy) - Gioachino Rossini Sinfonie per organo a quattro mani, presentazione del CD (Tactus) - (2008-07-25)
Federica Iannella – Giuliana Maccaroni – Davide Eusebi (percussioni)
Federica Iannella e Giuliana Maccaroni hanno presentato live (organo Pinchi), ieri sera (24 luglio 2008) a Senigallia (Ancona, Italy), in concomitanza del Festival Organistico Internazionale, nella Chiesa di Santa Maria della Neve detta del Portone, la loro nuova produzione discografica. Le Sinfonie di Rossini sono state trascritte per organo a quattro mani dalle stesse organiste e sono disponibili in CD, registrato in prima mondiale per la Tactus.
Polifonie coinvolgenti hanno incantato e fatto fremere gli animi degli ascoltatori presenti che hanno reagito con interminabili calorosi applausi. Brave !

Federica Iannella e Giuliana Maccaroni sono direttori artistici del Festival Organistico Internazionale Città di Senigallia (www.organsenigallia.com) e dei Vespri d’Organo a Cristo Re a Pesaro (www.vespridorgano.it). Nell’anno 2005 hanno inciso in prima registrazione mondiale le Sonate a quattro mani di Giovanni Morandi (Etichetta Tactus - Bologna) in collaborazione con l’edizione critica curata dal musicologo Gabriele Moroni (Ut Orpheus – Bologna).
www.federicaiannella.net , Giuliana Maccaroni

Federica Iannella lives in Senigallia (Central Italy), her home town. She studied the organ and composition with Professor M. Arlotti at the Conservatory G. Rossini in Pesaro. Additional studies followed with well-known artists, where she gained her large repertory reaching from Italian Renaissance to French and German romanticism. Of particular importance for her artistic formation were the studies with Wolgang Zerer in Hamburg.
She takes part in important European Festivals and appears together with various choral and orchestral groups, such as the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Prague Chamber Choir, Compagnia de' Musici di Parma with whom she interpreted almost all of the Haendel organ concertos.
Together with the Orchestra Camerata del Titano she recorded the Laudate pueri KV 600 by Antonio Vivaldi and in August 1997 she played the first performance of the "Petite Messe Solenelle" by Rossini in the chamber music version of 1864 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; in May 2005 she recorded, in word premier recording, “Sonate per organo a Quattro mani” by Giovanni Morandi, (cd tactus 771301) an important composer of Italian romantic music for organ.
Apart from her extensive concert and educational work, Federica Iannella as also a musicologist graduated at the University of Bologna and e.g. translated, into modern note script and performed a new instrumental arrangement, the Opera "Elena da Feltre" by S. Mercadante, performed in 1997 at the Wexford Opera Festival (Ireland) and the opera “Il trionfo delle belle” by Stefano Pavesi, performed in 2004 at the Rossini Opera Festival.
She is also regular organist and artistic director of the Church of Santa Maria della Neve in Senigallia, and is one of the teachers of the Accademia Organistica, which she founded in association with the Diocese.
Giuliana Maccaroni was born in Pesaro in 1971.
Graduated from the G. Rossini Conservatorium of Pesaro, where she studied Organ and organ composition with Maestro Marco Arlotti, with top marks and honours. After further study she obtained a Diploma in Harpsichord and a degree in Musicology (specialization in music library science) at the University of Cremona. In addition, she gained a Magisterial organ degree at the Conservatorium of Vicenza with Maestro Roberto Antonello.
Giuliana Maccaroni has taken courses on organ methodology and execution and interpretation in Italy and abroad with the following well-known Masters: L. Ghielmi, E. Kooiman, H. Vogel, M. Radulescu, W. Zerer, Ch. Stembridge, M.C. Alain, L. Lohmann.
Giuliana Maccaroni has been awarded two scholarships and won numerous prizes at national and international contests as follows: National organ competition “Città di Viterbo 1996” (1st prize); Sixth Competition for the best graduates from the Conservatories of Pesaro and Florence 1997 (1st prize); First Competition “Best Italian Graduates in 1996” (1st prize, and CD recording); National Organ Competition “F. Tomasin” of Perteole, Udine, 1998 (3rd prize); Twelfth National Competition of music execution “Città di Cento”, Ancient Music Section, 1998 (special prize awarded by the jury); International Organ Competition “G. Callido”, Borca di Cadore, 1999 (3rd prize); First International Organ Contest of Magadino, Switzerland, 2002 (semifinalist).
Giuliana Maccaroni has a busy curriculum, both as a soloist and in ensemble playing at important Italian and European Festivals, (Organ duets, orchestral groups choirs and chamber music).
She has made the first-ever recording of Giovanni Morandi’s Sonatas for organ four-hands with the Organist Federica Iannella, for Tactus Publishing House
She also recorded Tactus, Rossini’s Ouvertures for organ four-hands. Giuliana Maccaroni is the regular organist of Christ the King Church, Pesaro, with a Mascioni historical organ. In this church she is the artistic director of the international organ festival “Vespri d’organo a Cristo Re”. She has also taught at the Conservatories of Fermo and Reggio Calabria and at the officially recognized Musical Institutes of Modena and Reggio Emilia


Danzando per la Vita Lecco - (2008-02-23)
Ninth Edition of Danzando per la Vita Lecco , dance competition . Patrocinio Provincia di Lecco, Comune di Lecco- Soloist Duo Groups - The competition is open to male and female Dancers of all nations
Styles admitted: classical, neoclassical, character dancing, contemporary, modern jazz, funky. hip-hop breakdance and tap.
PROFESSIONAL DANCERS (new category) ) and SENIORS on Saturday 8th March,2008 - JUNIORS and BABY on Sunday 9th March,2008
The event will take place at the
Teatro Cenacolo Francescano, Piazza Cappuccini 3,Lecco, Italy
General rules and info: www.concorsididanza.com ,
Tel: (+39) 034 283948


Augusto Bonza, historical keyboard instruments- (2007-10-19)
Double manual harpsichord after "Jean Henri Hemsch, 1736" .
Large concert harpsichord. Its range and disposition make it a versatile. The tone on the lower manual is flute-like; the upper manual is gently nasal yet, when both play together, the sound is rich and powerful. These features make it one of the most frequently requested instruments in .Augusto Bonzaproduction.
Audio sample : " F.Couperin's La Ténébreuse " (Lo specchio ricomposto - Stradivarius, Paola Erdas - clavicembalo)
More info: info@augustobonza.it

Luciano Catapano - (2007-10-19)
Release 2007 "Luciano Catapano': Canzoni napoletane. Mare, luna e dintorni" . Audio sample .
Luciano Catapano, tenor and guitar; Gino Evangelista, mandolin. Neopolitan tenor Luciano Catapano appeared under the ancient vaults of St. Nicolas in Rougemont at the foot of the Alps in Vaud during the early music festival La Folia in 2005. And he was immediately invited back to give the best of himself for a Claves recording the year following: a ’Neapolitan night’ with his colleague Gino Evangelista, who shares his love for this unique italian region and who has performed with him in duo for many years, Il Duo della Sibilla.(Claves Recirds).

Il Trionfo Del Tempo e Del Disinganno - (2007-10-19)
Handel’s oratorio is artfully revived by Emmanuelle Haim and her ensemble Concert d’Astrée. With soprano Natalie Dessay. (Virgin Classics). Audio sample: " Fosco genio, e nero duolo"

Diabolus in Musica , new release - (2007-10-19)
"Guillaume Du Fay , Mille Bonjours!" (Alpha).
Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber .
These small masterpieces show extreme refinement and an extraordinary command of counterpoint. Whatever the form, ballad, rondeau, bergerette or motet-song, the expression remains natural and simple.
Most of these songs hail lightness of mind, joy, optimism, modestly restrained amorous pleasure, though some are melancholic or dwell on more austere feelings.

The Perfection of Music - (2007-10-19)
The Perfection of Music Volume 3 - Concert Spirituel
Sara Macliver soprano - audio sample .
The third release in the 'Perfection of Music' series is French Baroque music. Sara Macliver features in a rarely heard motet. Unlike earlier releases which focused largely on vocal music, this CD contains beautiful sonatas and concertos from this grand tradition. ABC Classic.

Glossa new release - (2007-10-13)
Georg Frideric Haendel " Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili (Italian cantatas, vol. 1, Rome 1706-1707)".
(audio samples)
La Risonanza & Roberta Invernizzi, Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord & direction

Cakewalk Sonar 7 software - (2007-10-13)
Tool for students of all ages. Also available Academic editions : Listening and analyzing , Composing and developing melodic ideas . Achieving rhythmic and textural contrasts through use of patterns and loops , Exploring and manipulating sounds , Creating musical variation , Developing formal structures , Arranging, editing and refining recorded material , Achieving dynamic contrasts , Understanding basic mixing parameters and exploring the use of effects , Composing music to a given brief , Producing a video soundtrack and much more

"Baroque Arias for Countertenor , album- (2007-10-12)
Yoshikazu Mera / Bach Collegium Japan (audio samples )

Farao classic new release - (2007-10-12)
Georg Friedrich Händel "Alcina" .
Alcina · Anja Harteros; Ruggiero · Vesselina Kasarova
More info / audio samples

Musica barocca Associazione Aliusmodum - (2007-10-03)
A Roma (Italy) dal 6 ottobre al 16 dicembre 2007, in collaborazione con l'Accademia di Romania in Roma. Program .
Associazione Aliusmodum, Via Gradoli 62 B2/10 - 00189 Roma (Italy) , tel & fax » +39.332.69.981 , aliusmodum@aliusmodum.com

Handel secular cantatas tour - (2007-10-03)
Mark Kayton USA tour with Mary Wilson, soprano and James Janssen, harpsichord (dates to be announced) .

Cremona Mondo Musica - (2007-10-01)
Cremona (Fairgrounds) (Italy) (5-7 ottobre), International Exhibition of musical craftmanship instruments and violinmaking accessories .
info : Cremona Fiere, P.zza Zelioli Lanzini, 1, 261000 Cremona
tel:+39 0372 598011 fax: +39 0372 598222, eMail

Una stagione con Rossini - (2007-10-01)
A Roma (Italy) , stagione 2007/8 dell’Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia, Info, program .

“Festival organistico internazionale” - (2007-10-01)
A Bergamo, dal 5 al 31 ottobre2007
info: Associazione Vecchia Bergamo, Via Zelasco, 1 24121 Bergamo (italy), +39 39.035.213009

“Festival di Polifonia e musica sacra ” - (2007-10-01)
Palestrina (Roma, Italy) (october 8-14). Messe, mottetti e musiche spirituali di grandi maestri di cappella e musicisti di cappelle basilicali e di corte si potranno ascoltare in luoghi suggestivi, in formazioni puramente ‘a cappella’, per sole voci, senza accompagnamento strumentale, oaccompagnate da organo. Domenica 14 ottobre : Casa Natale del Palestrina, Convegno di studi “Intorno al Palestrina” e presentazione volumi.Cattedrale di Palestrina: The Tallis Scholars (brani di Palestrina, Allegri e de Victoria)