Programme
The course is aimed at those who are already equipped with a bow and an historical istrument and have some experience in the field.
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Fundamentals of posture, sound emission, use of the bow and left hand in the 16th-19th centuries.
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Imitation of the human voice as the art of violin playing, in all its technical and musical aspects: pronunciation, articulation and phrasing.
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Fundamentals of historical intonation and the art of diminution and ornamentation.
To participate in Enrico Gatti's course, a curriculum vitae must be sent to corsi@fima-online.org at the time of registration.​
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Repertoire
The choice is completely free among the entire European repertoire from the second half of the 16th to the first half of the 19th century.
Bio
Enrico Gatti has dedicated himself to the XVII and XVIII century repertoire studying with Chiara Banchini in Geneva and Sigiswald Kuijken in The Hague. He has concertized extensively around all the world performing with La Petite Bande, Ensemble 415, Concerto Palatino, Hesperion XX, La Real Cámara, as leader of Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, The Taverner Players, The King’s Consort, Ricercar Consort, Bach Collegium Japan, Concerto Köln, ARTEK (New York), De Nederlandse Bachvereniging and “Les Muffatti” (Bruxelles), as well as with directors such as Gustav Leonhardt and Ton Koopman. He directs the Ensemble Aurora, which he founded in Italy in 1986. He has recorded for Harmonia Mundi (France and Germany), Accent and Ricercar (Belgium), Fonit Cetra, Tactus and Symphonia (Italy), Arcana and Astrée (France), Glossa (Spain) as well as recordings for many radio networks. He was assigned the first prize “Antonio Vivaldi” in 1993 and 1998, the “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”, and several times the “Diapason d’or”. Enrico Gatti is professor of historical violin at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and at the Conservatorio “G.B. Martini” of Bologna and he is much in demand for giving masterclasses in many unversities and music schools. He has been a member or president of the jury in several early music competitions and artistic director of the Urbino Early Music Course. He is member of the Scientific Committee for the national critical edition of the complete works of Alessandro Stradella and has been the President of the Scientific Committee for the international Symposium “Arcomelo 2013” in Fusignano which in november 2013 celebrated Arcangelo Corelli’s death tricentenary. For the occasion, he unearthed 12 unpublished sonatas by Corelli. In 2023, he launched a new research project on Giuseppe Torelli. His latest work Praeconium Solitudinis has been called 'a new paradigm of musical utopia'.