Luisa Sello

Last updated

Luisa Sello
Luisa Sello (2018).jpg
Background information
Born Udine, Italy
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, Professor
Instrument Flute
LabelsStradivarius

Luisa Sello OMRI is an Italian classical flautist and teacher.

Contents

Biography

Luisa Sello was born in Udine. She completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Italy and Paris where she studied flute as well as Contemporary and Baroque performance practice. She has studied in Paris with Raymond Guiot, at the Accademia Chigiana with Severino Gazzelloni, and at the Académie Internationale of Nice with Alain Marion. She has graduated also in Languages and in Modern Literature. [1]

She spent a brief period of orchestral experience and collaboration with the orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala of Milan under the direction of Riccardo Muti. During her solo career she has played alongside artists such as Alirio Diaz, Bruno Canino, Trevor Pinnock, Philippe Entremont, the Pražák Quartet, Nuovo Quartetto Italiano, the Jess Trio Wien, and has been guest soloist with orchestras such as I Virtuosi Italiani, Concert Verein Wiener Symphoniker, Salzburger Kammerorchester, Slovak Philharmonic, Thailand Symphonic Orchestra, Greater Miami Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Milano Classica. [1]

She has worked with numerous contemporary composers (Aldo Clementi, Franco Donatoni, Adriano Guarnieri, Francesco Pennisi, Primo Ramov, Josef Anton Riedl, Salvatore Sciarrino) performing their works for the first time. [2] The Italian composer Valter Sivilotti has dedicated to Luisa Sello the composition "L'incantesimo della luna nuova" for flute and string orchestra. [3]

In 2013 she has been nominated honorary Ambassador of Udine in the world, to represent Friulian culture in Italy and in the world. [4]

Since 2008 she is President of the Association "Gli amici della musica di Udine", the ancient music society of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region founded in 1922. [5]

She was professor of Flute at the Conservatory of Trieste "Giuseppe Tartini" from 1989 to 2020. She is visiting professor at University of Music in Vienna [6] and adjunct professor at the New Bulgarian University of Music in Sofia. [7]

Honours

ITA OMRI 2001 Cav BAR.svg Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – December 2, 2022 [8]

Selected discography

Books and essays

References

  1. 1 2 "Luisa Sello - Miyazawa Artists Biography". Miyazawa. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. "Federazione CEMAT - Luisa Sello" (in Italian). Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  3. "L' Incantesimo della Luna Nuova" (in Italian). Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  4. "Luisa Sello ambasciatrice di Udine nel mondo". Il Friuli (in Italian). 10 July 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  5. "Gli Amici della Musica di Udine festeggiano i primi 100 anni". Il Friuli (in Italian). Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  6. "Luisa Sello in concert". Italian Cultural Institute - Toronto. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  7. "Music Department Adjunct Professors". New Bulgarian University. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  8. "Dettaglio decorato Luisa Sella". quirinale.it (in Italian). Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  9. "RAI - Luisa Sello". RAI (in Italian). Retrieved 10 April 2022.