Carlo Aonzo
performs regularly in Europe and the United States, where he has established himself as a principal proponent of the classical mandolin.
He graduated with honors from the conservatory in Padova. He has played with several musical institutions like the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala in Milan and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.
Among his awards are the “Vivaldi” first prize in Venice, and first prize at the Walnut Valley National Mandolin Contest in Winfield Kansas.
He has recorded a concert video on the mandolin repertory across the centuries for Mel Bay (USA). His CDs include “Serenata” (Acoustic Music, Germany), “Traversata” (Acoustic Disc, USA), “Antonio Vivaldi – Concerti per Mandolino e Concerti per Orchestra” (EDT, Torino) and, in 2007, the acclaimed Kaze.
He leads the “Manhattan Mandolin Workshop” in New York and in 2006 he began the International Italian Accademy for the Mandolin.
As a researcher, he has worked on the origins of his instrument and has collaborated with the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
He edited several mandolin musical publications and gives presentations on the iconography of the mandolin, in institutions such as Boston University and the National Instrument Museum in Rome.
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Elena Buttiero
earned her degree in piano from the Cuneo Conservatory. She has performed throughout Italy, including Rome, Milan, Florence, Pistoia, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Cremona, Verona, Trento, Ferrara, Trieste, Ancona, Teramo, Campobasso, Potenza, Oristano, and Sassari. She has also performed in Paris and Lyon; in Lugano and Neuchatel (Switerland), Bonn, Cologne, Hildesheim, Goslar, Meinz (Germany); Dublin, Ennis, Carherciveen (Ireland).
She has recorded programs for many radio stations, including RAI, Italian-Swiss Radio, Radio Capodistria, German National Radio (WDR), Irish National Radio and Radio Kerry, and Norwegian National Radio.
She has been on the faculty of the Scuola Media ad Indirizzo Musicale di Savona (Savona’s music oriented middle school) since 1990.
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A fascinating musical journey,
across that historical periods,
tracing the development of the mandolin
and of plucked-string music
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The Italian Mandolin
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A trip trough the centuries: from first half of the 1700s, when the Lombard and Roman mandolins were used, to the second half of the century, when the instrument was widely used in the musical capitals of Europe – Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Paris, Lyon, London, Prague, Vienne – each with its own musical style. In this latter period, the Neapolitan mandolin became the standard instrument for the Romantic repertory of the Italian virtuosi.
The Neapolitan mandolin appears around the second half of the 18th century, and represents a fusion of elements from other instruments: The tuning in fifths comes from the violin, while the bowled body was already a characteristic of other regional mandolins. The palette derives from the standard guitar, while the movable bridge and folded top from the chitarra battente.
The elegant inlays of the surviving antique instruments; the period paintings, wherein we note the various contexts in which the mandolin was played; the variety and originality of the musical scores; all point to a courtly instrument and, above all, to a concert instrument.
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Program for mandolin and spinet
"The Mandolin in 18th Century European Courts" :
Corelli, Piccone, Scarlatti, Gervasio, Barbella, Riggieri
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Program for mandolin, spinet and piano
"Evolution of Style from the Baroque to the Twentieth Century" :
Corelli, Piccone, Gervasio, Beethoven, Calace
Carlo Aonzo e Elena Buttiero's Friend Space (Top 8)
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