Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/Apr/2021
Genre - Online Concert
Andrea Oliva, flute and Roberto Prosseda, piano
In association with Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, Mumbai
Programme: Gaetano Donizetti: Sonata per flauto e pianoforte; Giulio Briccialdi: Carnevale di Venezia Op. 78; Nino Rota: 5 pezzi facili; Francesco Morlacchi: Il pastore svizzero and Ennio Morricone: Per le antiche scale
‘Andrea Oliva is one of the best flute players of his generation, a shining star in the flute world’ as Sir. James Galway speaks about Andrea Oliva, First flute soloist of the ‘Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia’ in Rome, since 2003, he was born in Modena in 1977, graduated with the best grades in only five years at the Istituto Musicale ‘Vecchi-Tonelli’ of Modena under the guidance of G. Betti, followed also by C. Montafia, M. Marasco, G. Cambursano, J. C. Gérard, A. Blau and Sir James Galway as the beginning of a wonderful future career. Among the best international flute competitions he won we must mention the first prize at the Concorso Internazionale of Kobe (2005, first Italian winner) and the third prize at the Concorso Internazionale ARD in Monaco (2004).
Roberto Prosseda’s sensational discovery of new works by Mendelssohn made the headlines in Europe and led to several Decca releases. His albums have won much acclaim in the press, including the CHOC from Le Monde de la Musique Classique, the Diapason d’Or and Chamber Music CD of the Month in the UK’s Classic FM magazine. In 2014 Prosseda completed his 10-year project of recording Mendelssohn’s complete piano works for Decca in 10 CDs, also released in a Box-set in 2017 (“Mendelssohn Complete Piano Works”).
Other than Mendelssohn, of whose piano music he is considered to be one of today’s leading interpreters, Prosseda’s performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin have been particularly praised, and these composers have in fact featured in Prosseda’s recent Decca recordings, including the complete Mozart Sonatas (2015-18). An active proponent of Italian music, Prosseda also recorded the complete piano works of Petrassi and Dallapiccola and is preparing a new Decca CD with Ennio Morricone’s complete piano works.
In September 2011, Prosseda gave his debut on the pedal piano, performing the Concerto for Pedal Piano by Gounod in the world premiere in modern times. He has given more than 50 concerts with the pedal piano, rediscovering the original compositions by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Charles Valentin Alkan. Several composers, including Ennio Morricone, have already written new pieces for pedal piano for Roberto Prosseda, and a recording of Gounod’s four pieces for pedal piano and orchestra with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Howard Shelley was released on the Hyperion label in 2013.
Roberto Prosseda is also very active in musical divulgation. He wrote the book “Il Pianoforte” for Edizioni Curci (2013) and made three documentaries dedicated to Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt (Euroarts).
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