Tiziana Scandaletti
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Tiziana Scandaletti, born in Padua
, is an Italian
soprano
particularly active in chamber music
and contemporary classical music
.
from the Vicenza
Conservatory and her advanced degree in Music History
from Padua
University, both of them with top marks, she continued her studies with Nino Albarosa, René Clemencich, Alan Curtis
, Magda Olivero
, Virginio Puecher, Andrea von Ramm and Susanna Ghione, winning national and international prices.
Numerous recordings for CD labels include: Ariston-Ricordi, Curci (Du Dunkelheit by Giacomo Manzoni
, dedicated to her), Edipan, Nuova Era (two monographic CDs on Giorgio Federico Ghedini
and other two on Alfredo Casella
and Franco Alfano
), Stradivarius (three CDs La voce contemporanea in Italia - Voll. 1, 2, 3).
Tiziana Scandaletti has collaborated with theaters such as Teatro alla Scala in Milan
and prestigious Institutions like Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome
, with an international activity in chamber music
as soprano of the Duo Alterno
, with whom she performed hundreds of concerts and masterclasses all around the world.
Recent activities include tours in Europe, Asia, Australia and America, performing at Gasteig in Munich
, Unerhoerte Musik in Berlin
, Xinghai Concert Hall in Canton
, Liaoning
Grand Theatre in Shenyang
, Opera Theater in Ulan Bator, 37th International Composers' Symposium of the University of New Mexico
in Albuquerque, Artlink Festival in Belgrade
and SoundaXis Festival in Toronto
. She has also presented numerous masterclasses an concert lectures in many important Conservatories and Universities (Beijing Central Conservatory, Stanford University
, Berkeley University, Portland State University
, Wilfrid Laurier University
, Kyoto University
, etc.).
Many composers have written pieces for her, including: Marcello Abbado
, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi
, Alberto Colla, James Dashow, Ada Gentile, Richard Herman
, Paola Livorsi, Giacomo Manzoni
, Ennio Morricone
, Riccardo Piacentini
, Alessandro Solbiati, Fabio Vacchi
, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovski.
She has written many musicology articles which have in Italian publications like Cleup, Curci, Il Saggiatore, Il Santo, Neri Pozza, Il Mulino. She currently teaches Vocal Chamber Music at the Vicenza Conservatory.
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...
, is an Italian
Italy
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soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
particularly active in chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
and contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
.
Biography
After receiving her music diploma in vocal performancePerformance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
from the Vicenza
Vicenza
Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...
Conservatory and her advanced degree in Music History
Music history
Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time...
from Padua
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...
University, both of them with top marks, she continued her studies with Nino Albarosa, René Clemencich, Alan Curtis
Alan Curtis (harpsichordist)
Alan Curtis is a noted American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera. After graduate studies at the University of Illinois , where he wrote his dissertation on the keyboard music of Sweelinck, he studied in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt, with whom he subsequently recorded...
, Magda Olivero
Magda Olivero
Magda Olivero is a soprano of the verismo-school of singing. She was born in Saluzzo, Italy. Olivero made her operatic debut in 1932 on Turin radio in Cattozzo’s oratorio I misteri dolorosi. She performed widely and increasingly successfully until 1941, when she married and retired from performing...
, Virginio Puecher, Andrea von Ramm and Susanna Ghione, winning national and international prices.
Numerous recordings for CD labels include: Ariston-Ricordi, Curci (Du Dunkelheit by Giacomo Manzoni
Giacomo Manzoni
Giacomo Manzoni is an Italian composer. He studied composition from 1948 in Messina with Gino Contilli, and continued his studies from 1950 to 1956 at the Conservatoire of Milan. In 1955 he obtained a doctorate in foreign languages from the Bocconi University in Milan.He wrote the music for the...
, dedicated to her), Edipan, Nuova Era (two monographic CDs on Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Giorgio Federico Ghedini was an Italian composer.-Life:Ghedini was born in Cuneo in 1892. He studied organ, piano and composition in Turin, then graduated in composition in Bologna under Marco Enrico Bossi in 1911...
and other two on Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Life and career :Casella was born in Turin; his family included many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin...
and Franco Alfano
Franco Alfano
Franco Alfano was an Italian composer and pianist. Best known today for his opera Risurrezione and above all for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.- Biography :He was born in Posillipo, Naples...
), Stradivarius (three CDs La voce contemporanea in Italia - Voll. 1, 2, 3).
Tiziana Scandaletti has collaborated with theaters such as Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
and prestigious Institutions like Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, with an international activity in chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
as soprano of the Duo Alterno
Duo Alterno
The Duo Alterno is an Italian voice-piano chamber ensemble specializing in 19th century and contemporary classical music. The Duo made up of soprano Tiziana Scandaletti and composer-pianist Riccardo Piacentini....
, with whom she performed hundreds of concerts and masterclasses all around the world.
Recent activities include tours in Europe, Asia, Australia and America, performing at Gasteig in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Unerhoerte Musik in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Xinghai Concert Hall in Canton
Guangzhou
Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
, Liaoning
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...
Grand Theatre in Shenyang
Shenyang
Shenyang , or Mukden , is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Currently holding sub-provincial administrative status, the city was once known as Shengjing or Fengtianfu...
, Opera Theater in Ulan Bator, 37th International Composers' Symposium of the University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
in Albuquerque, Artlink Festival in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
and SoundaXis Festival in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. She has also presented numerous masterclasses an concert lectures in many important Conservatories and Universities (Beijing Central Conservatory, Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, Berkeley University, Portland State University
Portland State University
Portland State University is a public state urban university located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1946, it has the largest overall enrollment of any university in the state of Oregon, including undergraduate and graduate students. It is also the only public university in...
, Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....
, Kyoto University
Kyoto University
, or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...
, etc.).
Many composers have written pieces for her, including: Marcello Abbado
Marcello Abbado
Marcello Abbado is an Italian composer, conductor, and pianist. His compositional output includes several orchestral works, a ballet, numerous pieces for solo piano, and a number of chamber works. He has collaborated on several compositions with Roberto Goitre...
, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi is an Italian composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music.He studied composition, electronic music and musicology at Rome Conservatory of Music and Bologna University. He studied with Tristan Murail, Philippe Manoury , Franco Donatoni...
, Alberto Colla, James Dashow, Ada Gentile, Richard Herman
Richard Herman
Richard H. Herman served as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005-2009. He previously served there as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs since 1998. While at the university he promoted excellence and diversity across the breadth of academic programs...
, Paola Livorsi, Giacomo Manzoni
Giacomo Manzoni
Giacomo Manzoni is an Italian composer. He studied composition from 1948 in Messina with Gino Contilli, and continued his studies from 1950 to 1956 at the Conservatoire of Milan. In 1955 he obtained a doctorate in foreign languages from the Bocconi University in Milan.He wrote the music for the...
, Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
, Riccardo Piacentini
Riccardo Piacentini
Riccardo Piacentini is an Italian composer and pianist.- Biography :He graduated in 1980 in Composition and Piano at Turin and Alessandria Conservatories, as well as in Literature and Music History at Turin University with a thesis on the orchestral works of Goffredo Petrassi...
, Alessandro Solbiati, Fabio Vacchi
Fabio Vacchi
Fabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.-Training and debut:Fabio Vacchi studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the courses of the Tanglewood Festival in the USA, where he was awarded the Koussevitzky...
, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovski.
She has written many musicology articles which have in Italian publications like Cleup, Curci, Il Saggiatore, Il Santo, Neri Pozza, Il Mulino. She currently teaches Vocal Chamber Music at the Vicenza Conservatory.
Discography
- 1993 - Lipso (Venezia alata CDVA 01)
- 1993 - Nella profondità dell'anima (Ariston-Ricordi ARCL CD 34)
- 1996 - Musiche in esposizione - voll. 1 e 2 (Rive-Gauche Concerti - CRIM)
- 1997 - La crava mangia 'l muri (Datum-Stradivarius DAT 80006)
- 1998 - Mal'akhim (Nuova Era (CD 7336)
- 1999 - Giacomo Manzoni. Du Dunkelheit (Curci E. 11326 C.)
- 1999 - Musiche dell'aurora (Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00005)
- 1999 - Shahar (Curci E. 11351 C.)
- 2000 - Musiche per Pellizza da Volpedo (Nuova Era CD 7351)
- 2000 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini. Musica sacra (Nuova Era CD 7354)
- 2001 - Arie condizionate (Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00009)
- 2001 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini. Canti e strambotti (Nuova Era CD 7365)
- 2002 - Alfredo Casella. Liriche (Nuova Era CD 7371)
- 2003 - Treni persi (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00012)
- 2004 - Mina miniera mia (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00014)
- 2004 - Musiche della Reggia di Venaria Reale (Piedmont Region - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00015)
- 2004 - Franco Alfano. Liriche da Tagore (Nuova Era CD 7388)
- 2005 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 1 (Stradivarius STR 33708)
- 2006 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 2 (Stradivarius (STR 33743)
- 2007 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 3 (Stradivarius STR 33769)
- 2007 - Italienischer Gesangsabend mit dem Duo Alterno (Steirischer Tonkünstler Bund STB 07/07)
- 2009 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 4 (Stradivarius STR 33833)