Vittorio Ghielmi
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Gamba player, conductor, composer. Born in Milano, Italy, still very young he attracts notice for the intensity and versatility of his musical interpretation and for his new approach to the viol and to the sound of ancient music repertoire. His studies on the field, about old musical traditions still living in forgotten place of the world brought to light new perspective in the interpretation of European "ancient music".
Winner of "Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco" (Brescia 1995) and Erwin Bodky Award (Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 1997).
As viol soloist or conductor (with orchestras as London Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Bowl Hall Hollywood-Graun concerto, Wiener Philharmoniker, Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburger Baroque Orchestra etc.), and in duo with the brother Lorenzo Ghielmi or with Luca Pianca, he plays in the most important halls of Europe, USA, Japan (Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie Berlin, Casals Hall, Tokio etc.). He has been invited to play as soloist the world première of many “new music” composition (Kevin Volans, Teatro Regio di Torino; Nadir Vassena, Berliner Philharmoniker Hall).
Played in duo and trio with artist as Gustav Leonhart, Christophe Coin, Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola, Cecilia Bartoli, Enrico Onofri etc.
His ensemble" Il Suonar Parlante ", in both the shapes of gamba quartett (Rodney Prada, Fahmi Alqhai, Cristiano Contadin) or orchestra, is devoted to a new investigation of the ancient repertoire, but plays also with important jazz players as Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine, Jim Black, Don Byron, Markus Stockhausen, Nguyen Lê, pop singer like Vinicio Capossela, flamenco star as Carmen Linares etc. Several jazzists and composers wrote new music for this ensemble. The ensemble collaborates as well with traditional asian musicians as the afghans virtuosos of "ensemble Kaboul" (Khaled Arman).
Recorded several solo CD winning critic prizes (Decca, Teldec, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi France, Accent, CPO etc.). His last production are for Winter&Winter, München, Germany and Passacaille (Belgium).
He is one of the rare gamba players who is normally demanded to play as solo performer with orchestras. In 2007 conceives and conducts a big spectacle around Buxtehude's "Membra Jesu Nostri", with the American film maker Marc Reshovsky (Hollywood) and with the Swedish choir "Rilke ensemblen" (G.Eriksson). He works as Riccardo Muti assistant in Salzburg Pfingstam festival. In 2008 Uri Caine composed and dedicated to him a "concerto for viola da gamba and orchestra", inaugurated in Amsterdam Konzertgebouw.
Titular professor in Conservatorio Luca Marenzio (Brescia) as well as in severals master-classes and Universities. In the "Politecnico della cultura, delle arti e delle lingue" Milano, he organizes cycles of studies and concerts on the ancient instrumental techniques and their survival in "ethnical" musical traditions. He published studies on music and unpublished score (Fuzeau, Minkoff, Ut Orpheus) and the integrale edition of Johan Gottlieb Graun's Viola da Gamba Concertos, and direct the scientifical musical research of “Libroforte-Fine Music editions”).
Winner of "Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco" (Brescia 1995) and Erwin Bodky Award (Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 1997).
As viol soloist or conductor (with orchestras as London Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Bowl Hall Hollywood-Graun concerto, Wiener Philharmoniker, Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburger Baroque Orchestra etc.), and in duo with the brother Lorenzo Ghielmi or with Luca Pianca, he plays in the most important halls of Europe, USA, Japan (Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie Berlin, Casals Hall, Tokio etc.). He has been invited to play as soloist the world première of many “new music” composition (Kevin Volans, Teatro Regio di Torino; Nadir Vassena, Berliner Philharmoniker Hall).
Played in duo and trio with artist as Gustav Leonhart, Christophe Coin, Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola, Cecilia Bartoli, Enrico Onofri etc.
His ensemble" Il Suonar Parlante ", in both the shapes of gamba quartett (Rodney Prada, Fahmi Alqhai, Cristiano Contadin) or orchestra, is devoted to a new investigation of the ancient repertoire, but plays also with important jazz players as Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine, Jim Black, Don Byron, Markus Stockhausen, Nguyen Lê, pop singer like Vinicio Capossela, flamenco star as Carmen Linares etc. Several jazzists and composers wrote new music for this ensemble. The ensemble collaborates as well with traditional asian musicians as the afghans virtuosos of "ensemble Kaboul" (Khaled Arman).
Recorded several solo CD winning critic prizes (Decca, Teldec, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi France, Accent, CPO etc.). His last production are for Winter&Winter, München, Germany and Passacaille (Belgium).
He is one of the rare gamba players who is normally demanded to play as solo performer with orchestras. In 2007 conceives and conducts a big spectacle around Buxtehude's "Membra Jesu Nostri", with the American film maker Marc Reshovsky (Hollywood) and with the Swedish choir "Rilke ensemblen" (G.Eriksson). He works as Riccardo Muti assistant in Salzburg Pfingstam festival. In 2008 Uri Caine composed and dedicated to him a "concerto for viola da gamba and orchestra", inaugurated in Amsterdam Konzertgebouw.
Titular professor in Conservatorio Luca Marenzio (Brescia) as well as in severals master-classes and Universities. In the "Politecnico della cultura, delle arti e delle lingue" Milano, he organizes cycles of studies and concerts on the ancient instrumental techniques and their survival in "ethnical" musical traditions. He published studies on music and unpublished score (Fuzeau, Minkoff, Ut Orpheus) and the integrale edition of Johan Gottlieb Graun's Viola da Gamba Concertos, and direct the scientifical musical research of “Libroforte-Fine Music editions”).
Discography
- Bagpipes from Hell — Music for Viola da gamba, Lyra-viol, LuteLuteLute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
, and CeteroneCeteroneThe Ceterone was an enlarged and bass-extended cittern, the counterpart of the chitarrone as a development of the lute, which may have dated from the 1520s, but no firm evidence exists for it before the end of that century....
. 17th and 18th century (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 1999_
- Pièces de caractère — Works by: MaraisMarin MaraisMarin Marais was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles...
, ForquerayAntoine ForquerayAntoine Forqueray was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba.Forqueray, born in Paris, was the first in a line of composers who included his brother Michel and his sons Jean-Baptiste and Nicolas Gilles...
, Mouton, Dollé, Caix d'Hervelois, De Visée (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 2002)
- Short Tales for a Viol — English lyra-viol music of the 17th century (Vittorio Ghielmi)
- Duo - German Music for LuteLuteLute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
& ViolViolThe viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the...
(Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca)
- Full of Colour (V. Ghielmi, E. Reijseger, Il Suonar Parlante)
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
— Preludi ai corali (Vittorio Ghielmi, Italian Viola da Gamba Quartet)
- TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
, Georg Philipp — Chamber MusicChamber musicChamber 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...
with Viola Da Gamba (Ensemble BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
de Limoges)
- Devil's Dream (Ghielmi, Pianca, Gibelli)
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
— SonataSonataSonata , in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata , a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms prior to the Classical era...
s, Preludes and FugueFugueIn music, a fugue is a compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition....
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- Villa Medici - Nata per la musica Bern, Beschi, Caine
- Carl Philipp Emanuel BachCarl Philipp Emanuel Bachright|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...
— Lieder zum singen bey dem Clavier
- Johann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist.Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught...
— Konzertante Musik mit Viola da Gamba
- J. S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord, Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano). Also includes Bach Preludes & Fugues, 1998, [Lorenzo is Vittorio's older brother]
- C. P. E. Bach: Lieder - Zum singen bey dem clavierClavierClavier is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. On January 1, 2006, Clavier had a total population of 4,172. The total area is 79.12 km² which gives a population density of approximately 53 inhabitants per km²....
— Ursula Fiedler (Sorpano) Lorenzo Ghielmi (Clavier), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Ars Musici, 1999
- Der Kastanienball — Vittorio Ghielmi, Il Suonar Parlante — Prinzregenten Theater, Munchen, Germany (2004).
- Dalla Casa: Il Secondo Libro dei Madrigali — Il Terzo Suono Balconi, Dalla Casa, Fabris, Fagotto, Fedi
- GraunJohann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist.Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught...
: Concerti — Ponseele, Il Gardellino Ensemble
- GraunJohann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist.Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught...
: Concerti CPO
- Marin MaraisMarin MaraisMarin Marais was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles...
: La Force et la Douceur, Pièces de viole, V. Ghielmi and Luca Pianca, Passacaille, 2010
- Barbarian Beauty, Concertos for viola da gamba and orchestra, (Graun, Telemann, Tartini and Vivaldi: the gypsy side), with Marcel Comendant (cymbalon), Dorothee Oberlinger recorder, M.Hirasaki, violin and "Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra", Passacaille 2011
External links
- http://www.vittorioghielmi.com/ www.vittorioghielmi.com
- http://www.libroforte.com/