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Massimo Gianfreda
Riccardo
Minasi
- Orchestra conductor
- Violinist
The director and violinist Richard Minasi He is considered one of the brightest and most exciting talents on the European music scene.
From 2022 it is Principal Guest Conductor of the Ensemble Resonanz at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Artistic Director of the La Scintilla Orchestra of the Zurich Opera. From 2022 to 2024 he was Music Director of the Carlo Felice Theater in GenoaFrom 2012 to 2015 he was co-founder and director of the ensemble Tomato, while from 2017 to 2022 he held the role of Chief Conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
In the 2024/25 season Minasi will make his debut at the head of major symphonic groups: with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducting Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion; with the Philharmonie du Luxembourg next to Michael Spyres in Les Nuits d'été by Hector Berlioz; and with theOrchester National du Capitole de Toulouse in Antonín Kraft's Cello Concerto in C major with Jean Guihen Queyras. Also return to the Frankfurter Radiosinfonie with Martin Fröst in Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto.
The season sees him once again as the protagonist with the Staatskapelle Dresden for the traditional Advent television concert (ZDF) and for three performances of The Marriage of Figaro at the Semperoper DresdenAt Glyndebourne he conducts theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, while in Valencia he returns to Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía for Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc. For his final season at the helm of the Carlo Felice Theater, signs three symphony concerts and a new production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
The collaboration with theEnsemble Resonanz continues with a series of concerts dedicated to Beethoven's Eroica – scheduled at the Musikfest in Berlin, Kronberg, Bonn, Antwerp, Hamburg, Dortmund and Cologne – after the triumphal debut of the group at the BBC Proms with Timothy Ridout is Clara Jumi Kang.
In recent years Minasi has debuted with the Berliner Philharmoniker and performed with theOrchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, on Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
On the operatic side he conducted Die Zauberflöte and Rodelinda at the Dutch National Opera; Don Giovanni in Valencia; Così fan tutte in Glyndebourne; Idomeneo and Beatrice di Tenda in Genoa; Les Pêcheurs de Perles in Salzburg Festival; Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Orlando Paladino all'Opernhaus Zürich; Alcina, The Marriage of Figaro and Agrippina at the Hamburg State Opera; Carmen all'Opéra National de Lyon.
Alongside an intense concert activity, Minasi has recorded with world-famous artists such as Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato is Juan Diego FlórezIn 2016 alone he participated in four award-winning recordingsEcho Classic. His most recent recordings with the Ensemble Resonanz for Harmony Mundi – Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (2018), CPE Bach's Cello Concertos (2019) and Antonín Kraft's Cello Concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras (2024) – have been awarded the Golden Tuning Fork of the Year.
Minasi's interpretative style is distinguished by its musicological integrity. He was a historical consultant for theMontreal Symphonic Orchestras and, together with Maurizio Biondi, editor of the new critical edition of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma published by Bärenreiter in 2016, then performed with Ensemble Resonanz and at the Carlo Felice, after the great success obtained at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2022.
As a solo violinist and Konzertmeister he collaborated with theOrchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, Byzantine Academy, The Harmonious Garden, The Concert des Nations, Al Ayre Español, L'Seville Baroque Orchestra and theMadrid Symphony OrchestraHe has shared the stage with musicians of the caliber of Veronika Eberle, Bryn Terfel, Franco Fagioli, Jean Guihen Queyras, Viktoria Mullova, Reinhard Goebel, Luke Pianca, Christophe Coin is Albrecht Mayer.
From 2022 it is Principal Guest Conductor of the Ensemble Resonanz at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Artistic Director of the La Scintilla Orchestra of the Zurich Opera. From 2022 to 2024 he was Music Director of the Carlo Felice Theater in GenoaFrom 2012 to 2015 he was co-founder and director of the ensemble Tomato, while from 2017 to 2022 he held the role of Chief Conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
In the 2024/25 season Minasi will make his debut at the head of major symphonic groups: with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducting Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion; with the Philharmonie du Luxembourg next to Michael Spyres in Les Nuits d'été by Hector Berlioz; and with theOrchester National du Capitole de Toulouse in Antonín Kraft's Cello Concerto in C major with Jean Guihen Queyras. Also return to the Frankfurter Radiosinfonie with Martin Fröst in Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto.
The season sees him once again as the protagonist with the Staatskapelle Dresden for the traditional Advent television concert (ZDF) and for three performances of The Marriage of Figaro at the Semperoper DresdenAt Glyndebourne he conducts theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, while in Valencia he returns to Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía for Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc. For his final season at the helm of the Carlo Felice Theater, signs three symphony concerts and a new production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
The collaboration with theEnsemble Resonanz continues with a series of concerts dedicated to Beethoven's Eroica – scheduled at the Musikfest in Berlin, Kronberg, Bonn, Antwerp, Hamburg, Dortmund and Cologne – after the triumphal debut of the group at the BBC Proms with Timothy Ridout is Clara Jumi Kang.
In recent years Minasi has debuted with the Berliner Philharmoniker and performed with theOrchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, on Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
On the operatic side he conducted Die Zauberflöte and Rodelinda at the Dutch National Opera; Don Giovanni in Valencia; Così fan tutte in Glyndebourne; Idomeneo and Beatrice di Tenda in Genoa; Les Pêcheurs de Perles in Salzburg Festival; Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Orlando Paladino all'Opernhaus Zürich; Alcina, The Marriage of Figaro and Agrippina at the Hamburg State Opera; Carmen all'Opéra National de Lyon.
Alongside an intense concert activity, Minasi has recorded with world-famous artists such as Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato is Juan Diego FlórezIn 2016 alone he participated in four award-winning recordingsEcho Classic. His most recent recordings with the Ensemble Resonanz for Harmony Mundi – Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (2018), CPE Bach's Cello Concertos (2019) and Antonín Kraft's Cello Concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras (2024) – have been awarded the Golden Tuning Fork of the Year.
Minasi's interpretative style is distinguished by its musicological integrity. He was a historical consultant for theMontreal Symphonic Orchestras and, together with Maurizio Biondi, editor of the new critical edition of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma published by Bärenreiter in 2016, then performed with Ensemble Resonanz and at the Carlo Felice, after the great success obtained at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2022.
As a solo violinist and Konzertmeister he collaborated with theOrchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, Byzantine Academy, The Harmonious Garden, The Concert des Nations, Al Ayre Español, L'Seville Baroque Orchestra and theMadrid Symphony OrchestraHe has shared the stage with musicians of the caliber of Veronika Eberle, Bryn Terfel, Franco Fagioli, Jean Guihen Queyras, Viktoria Mullova, Reinhard Goebel, Luke Pianca, Christophe Coin is Albrecht Mayer.
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