Fabio Mastrangelo

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Fabio Mastrangelo
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BornNovember 27, 1965
Bari, Italy
CitizenshipItaly
Russia
OccupationConducting, pianist

Fabio Mastrangelo (born November 27, 1965) is an Italian-Russian conductor and pianist.

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Early life and education

Mastrangelo was born in 1965 in Bari, Italy to a family of musicians. [1] At the age of five, he fell in love with Russia, its music and its alphabet. [2] He studied music at the Conservatory of Bari under Pierluigi Camicia and while being a student there, had participated at piano competitions in Osimo and Rome in 1980 and 1986 respectively. Following graduation from the Bari Conservatory, he took advanced studies at the Geneva Conservatory and at the Royal Academy of Music in London and also took master classes with Aldo Ciccolini, Robert Lipkin and Paul Badura-Skoda. He had also studied conducting with Leonard Bernstein, Karl Österreicher and Gilberto Serembe, Neeme Järvi, and Jorma Panula. [1]

Bari Comune in Apulia, Italy

Bari is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas. The city itself has a population of 326,799, as of 2015, over 116 square kilometres (45 sq mi), while the urban area has 750,000 inhabitants. The metropolitan area has 1.3 million inhabitants.

The Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory was founded by the violinist and music critic Giovanni Capaldi in 1925, with headquarters in Villa Bucciero, Bari, Italy. It was the fourteenth music school to arise in Italy. First created as a music-education high school, in 1937 it was converted into a conservatory, and was named in honor of eighteenth-century Italian composer Niccolò Piccinni.

Osimo Comune in Marche, Italy

Osimo is a town and comune of the Marche region of Italy, in the province of Ancona. The municipality covers a hilly area located approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of the port city of Ancona and the Adriatic Sea. As of 2015, Osimo had a total population of 35,037.

Career

Early career

In 1990, Mastrangelo had obtained a grant to become a faculty of music member at the University of Toronto. While serving there, he founded Virtuosi di Toronto chamber orchestra and the Hart House string orchestra and then became a faculty at the Department of Music of the University of Toronto. When he was promoted to a guest conductor, he began working with Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, and eventually shifted his place of work to North Carolina where he became a guest conductor of the North Carolina State University's Symphony Orchestra. While in North Carolina, he frequently visited Canada, and was a conductor at the Vancouver Opera and at the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Mastrangelo is also known for being a guest conductor in Europe, where he worked with the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Symphonietta Riga Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. [1]

University of Toronto university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

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In 1997, Mastrangelo was promoted to a principal conductor of Symphony Orchestra in Bali, Italy and participated in symphony orchestras of Palermo, Pescara, Taranto, and Accademia Filarmonica Romana. From 2005 to 2007, Mastragelo had served as music director at the Società dei Concerti Orchestra, which during his tenor had toured twice in Japan. [1] In 2007, Mastrangelo had performed Tosca at which Maria Guleghina and Vladimir Galuzin were tenors. In June 2008, he appeared at the White Nights Festival at which he replaced Valery Gergiev. [3] From 2006 to 2013 he was artistic consultant to the Teatro Petruzzelli in his home city Bari in Italy. [4] In December 2009, Fabio had debuted with the production of Lucia di Lammermoor in Sassari and next year he had performed Tosca at the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, Tuscany and Alexander Kuranov's Aida at the Hermitage Theatre of St. Petersburg. [1]

Palermo Comune in Sicily, Italy

Palermo is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Pescara Comune in Abruzzo, Italy

Pescara is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents. Located on the Adriatic coast at the mouth of the Aterno-Pescara River, the present-day municipality was formed in 1927 joining the municipalities of the old Pescara fortress, the part of the city to the south of the river, and Castellamare Adriatico, the part of the city to the north of the river. The surrounding area was formed into the province of Pescara.

Taranto Comune in Apulia, Italy

Taranto is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base. It is considered one of the oldest cities in Italy.

Later career

In 2011, Mastrangelo had debuted with the Krasnoyarsk Opera Theatre, premiering La traviata , Tosca and Rigoletto , and during the same year, he had conducted the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow and Kiev. [1] In 2012 Mastrangelo had collaborated with Elisabetta Brusa, works of which were later published by Naxos Records. During the same year, he also did four performances of Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and a single performance of Opera for All and Mikhail Glinka's A Life for the Tsar . In August 2013, Mastrangelo was appointed as artistic director and conductor of the St. Petersburg Music Hall [4] and in 2014 he had served as a conductor at the Sejong Center. Since 2016 Fabio Mastrangelo is a conductor of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Belgrade Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Thüringer Symphoniker Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, the Banská Bystrica Opera Theatre (at which he conducted another Tosca) and Bolshoi Theatre. He also was a participant of the Montecatini Opera Festival at which he performed Borodin's Prince Igor and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro . [1]

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Currently he serves as a principal conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre [4] where he performs Les vêpres siciliennes , [6] and as a guest conductor at both Moscow City Symphony Orchestra [7] and Novaya Opera Theatre. [1] He is also a jury member on Russia-K's Grand Opera and The Nutcracker shows. [4]

Mariinsky Theatre opera house

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