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INTRODUCTION
We are very proud to present you the Conductors of the Future protagonist of this issue, he is one of the young rising stars that Italy has offered to the great international music stage, the one and only Riccardo Bisatti.
In an interview by Cristina Fieraru, Riccardo revealed his thoughts on what a young aspiring conductor should know before approaching this path of conducting, his hobbies and routines before a performance, his way of approaching a new score and practice habits and last, but definitely not least, he also shared with us a short funny stage story.
Grab your wine and take this little journey through Riccardo’s life with us by reading the interview below!
BIOGRAPHY
Riccardo Bisatti, pianist and conductor, graduated in piano with top marks and cum laude from the Conservatorio “G. Cantelli” in Novara with Alessandro Commellato and Renato Principe, also specializing in fortepiano and harpsichord. He furthers his conducting studies at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan under the guidance of Daniele Agiman, after having studied with Matteo Beltrami in Novara. He has participated in numerous prestigious masterclasses, both in piano and conducting, held by Fabio Luisi, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Alexei Lubimov, Daniele Agiman, Jeffrey Swann, Roberto Prosseda, Maurizio Baglini, Pietro De Maria, Emilia Fadini, Marc Bouchkov. He also received a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein. Selected by Divertimento Ensemble, he had the occasion to work with composers Luca Mosca, Marco Di Bari, Stefano Gervasoni and Alessandro Solbiati. He is a member of Ulysses Network, a European circuit for the dissemination of contemporary music. Riccardo has taken part in numerous international competitions, winning several prizes: Prize of excellence at the VII Concours international de piano junior in Orléans, the Serbian National Theatre - Novi Sad Prize at the IX International Competition for Opera Conductors “Luigi Mancinelli” and the First Prize (Conducting Section) of the Italian “Prize of the Arts”. He has performed and conducted for important festivals and associations, including: Lille Piano Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Milano Classica, Piano City Milano (Museo del Teatro alla Scala), Fazioli Milan, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Festival Brin d’herbe Orléans, Istituto italiano di cultura di Oslo, Società dei concerti di Milano, Bologna Modern. His passion for chamber music has led him to play with important soloists of the Berliner Philarmoniker, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He founded the “Goldberg Piano Trio” with Anna Molinari (violin) and Lucia Molinari (cello) and the “Ensemble Iri da Iri”, with the aim of researching and performing the larger chamber music repertoire with a particular focus on the Italian 20th century. At 18, Riccardo made his conducting debut with Pergolesi’s La serva padrona. He subsequently conducted Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Verdi’s La Traviata (Teatro Coccia Novara), P. Viardot’s Cendrillon (Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa Savona), A. Mannucci’s Kiki de Montparnasse (first Italian performance at the Novara Conservatoire). In 2021 he conducted Giovanni Sollima’s Acquaprofonda in an AsLiCo production which toured many cities (Como, Cremona, Reggio Emilia, Lugano, Milan, Messina), winning the 2022 Abbiati Prize “Filippo Siebaneck”. In 2022, he conducted Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire in Novara and Milan and a production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola for AsLiCo OperaDomani in Como, Modena, Fermo, Ascoli Piceno and Fano.
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Alice Lechner comes from a music-loving family. Her first encounter with the opera universe was at the tender age of six. The grandeur of the stage productions and costumes, the backstage chatter, and last, but definitely not least, the music left her in awe, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The overall feeling that opera awakens in anyone who gets a glimpse into this part of artistic eternity, that each and every day passes the test of time, was what drew her to stay and be a part of this world. The Opera House of Brașov became her second home, and the people who worked there were her second family.
Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.
Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.
Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.
Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.
She studied violin for 12 years at the “Stefan Luchian” High School of Art in Botosani, later focusing on the theoretical aspects of music. In 2019 she completed her bachelor studies in Musicology as a student of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. Her research during 2018-2019 brought to the forefront elements of the archaic ritual within works of composers who activated during the communist period, giving her the opportunity to start a research internship at the “Carl von Ossietzky” University in Germany. In this context, she recorded conversations with members of the Sophie Drinker Institute in Bremen, and had access to documents directly from the Myriam Marbé archive.
Since 2019 she has been a teacher of Music Education and Theoretical Music Studies, making full use of interactive methods in the musical training of students and working, at the same time, with the children’s choir founded in the first year of her activity.
Her interests include pursuing a degree in interior design in 2020.
Alexandru Suciu inherited his passion for art growing up in a family of several generations of musicians. He began his musical studies at the “Augustin Bena” School of Music in Cluj, where he studied piano and guitar. Even though his main study direction was philological, his passion for music prevailed. He began his academical journey at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, studying Comparative literature and English. He continued by studying Opera Singing at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy. He also graduated the Musical Education section, followed by Artistic Directing at the Musical Performing Arts department.
His multidisciplinary education opened the doors towards research, which is seen both through his participation in national and international conferences and symposia, such as the Salzburg Easter School PhD-forum, organized by the Salzburg Universität or the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars, organized by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, as well as the collaboration with Opera Charm Magazine.
During his student years, he won several prizes, including the Grand Prize at the “Paul Constantinescu” National Musical Interpretation Competition, the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union Prize at the same competition, the First Prize and the Schubert Prize at the “Ada Ulubeanu” Competition.
He further developed his artistic skills by specializing in courses and masterclasses held by personalities such as Vittorio Terranova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marian Pop, Ines Salazar, Riccardo Zanellato, Paolo Bosisio, Valentina Farcaș and Manuel Lange in contexts such as the Internationale Sommerakademie für Operngesang Deutschlandsberg, Corso Internazionale di Canto Lirico I.M.C. Licata or the Europäische Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Montepulciano. Besides his activity on-stage, he currently teaches Opera Singing Didactics, and Pedagogical Practice within the Department for Teacher Education and Training at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy.
Cristina is a 24 year-old Romanian soprano & a student at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she pursues the MA program in Vocal Performance.
She made her debut in Pamina from “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at only 19 years old at the Bucharest National Opera House, as a member of the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio. Over the years she made her debut in roles such as Contessa d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì & Musetta (La Bohème), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) in her university’s opera productions.
Her passion and experience extends in the field of choral music, too.
She has been part of our dream team since the fall of 2021. For a good period of time she took care of OPERA Charm’s social media and took you on the monthly journey through the history of opera through our Legends rubric – and a few times through the Theaters around the World rubric.
Her little soul rubric – from 2021 to present – is definitely the Conductors of the Future, where, every month, she gives you the chance to meet a young star of the world of conducting and, of course, to find out what’s the most charming feature of opera in these artists’ views.
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