Programme
Participants of all ages are welcome, whether professionals or students. The program is open and covers the entire bassoon repertoire from 1600 to 1800. The aim of the course is to foster technical development, theoretical training, and performance-interpretation skills on pieces suggested by participants or selected by the instructor. Throughout the course, subject to prior notice, baroque bassoons, classical bassoons, and dulcians will be made available for those wishing to explore these instruments or who do not own one. A workshop dedicated to the construction of historical reeds is also included.
Bio
He began his musical studies as a self-taught musician playing recorder and modern flute. In A.A. 2006-2007, he obtained a first-level academic diploma for ancient instruments with a focus on ‘recorder’, with top marks and honours, at the Department of Ancient Music of the Cosenza ‘S. Giacomantonio’ Conservatory of Music. There he studied flute with Piero Cartosio, Pietro Meldolesi, Stefano Bagliano, Tommaso Rossi and transverse flute with Laura Pontecorvo. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis FHNW (Basel - CH) he obtained a Level II Master's Degree in historical bassoon, A.A. 2013-2014, and a Level II Pedagogical Master's Degree for teaching this instrument, and music education in general, A.A. 2015-2016, under the guidance of M° Donna Agrell. He studied the historical bassoon for two years at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zürich - CH) under M° Giorgio Mandolesi, obtaining the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS), A.A. 2011-2012. He studied baroque, classical and dulciana bassoon with M° Maurizio Barigione, M° Giorgio Mandolesi and M° Alberto Grazzi, also attending various master classes, seminars and masterclasses. With Maestro Alberto Grazzi, he attended three years of high-level training for historical bassoon at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan in the academic years 2014-2015, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.
He has attended various international courses on recorder and early music, studying with Maestros Dan Laurin, Daniel Brüggen, Peter Holtslag, Robert Ehrlich, Antje Hensel, Pedro Couto Soares, Antonio Politano, Stefano Bagliano, Pietro Meldolesi, Alessandro Ciccolini, Susanne Scholz, Giovanna Barbati, Gianluca Capuano, Alfredo Bernardini, Andrea Inghisciano, Gloria Banditelli.
He also holds a degree in pharmacy from UNICAL with a bio-pathology curriculum, A.A. 2010-2011.