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SAURO BERTI & MARIO CIACCIO

SAURO BERTI, bass clarinet of the “Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,” has collaborated with the most important Italian orchestras (Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, RAI National Orchestra), the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä and the Thailand Philarmonic Orchestra. He has played under G. Prêtre, R. Chailly, M. W. Chung, R. Muti, W. Sawallisch, V. Gergiev, L. Maazel, P. Boulez, and Z. Mehta. He participated in the DVD of Mozart’s “Gran Partita” under M°Muti.

He was a soloist at the Tokyo ClarinetFest2008, the last ten ClarinetFest® 2009-2018 (Porto, Austin, Los Angeles, Lincoln, Assisi, Baton Rouge, Madrid, Lawrence, Orlando, and Ostend), the 2nd Costa Rica Festival, the 1st and 2nd Peruvian Congreso Latinoamericanos, the 5th “Congreso de Madrid,” the Festival Guimarães 2012, the 3rd Guatemala Festival 2013 and the “2015 China International Festival” and the “2016 Mexico Festival Musicademia.” In 2009 he obtained his conducting diploma with D. Renzetti. He has published “Venti Studi per Clarinetto Basso,” “Tuning” for winds (Suvini Zerboni), his version of V. Bucchi’s concerto and the CDs: “Suggestions” (Edipan) and “Solo Non Solo” (Ravello Records) SB. is a D’Addario Artist and plays on Buffet Crampon Tosca instruments, Selmer mouthpieces, and Silverstein ligatures. For more information - please visit his website.

MARIO CIACCIO, eclectic saxophonist and Italian conductor, has held over 250 recitals and concerts in Italy, Spain, Austria, USA, Israel, Scotland, Belgium, Taiwan, Russia and China, Iran, Cuba. Mario is a saxophone graduate with honors at the Conservatory “V. Bellini “in Palermo, Conservatory Val du Brieve (France) and “ Bonporti “conservatory in Trento. He had a Master degree with honors  in orchestral conducting at the “Briccialdi” Conservatory in Terni.

He has won twelve national and international competitions and has made lectures on contemporary saxophone music in various universities, including Rice University (USA), the University of Arkansas (USA), the University of Suny (USA), St. Thomas University (USA), the Taiwan Army Wind Orchestra (TW) and the Novosibisrk Conservatory of Music (Russia). He is frequently invited as a jury member in prestigious competitions including the International Competition “Adolphe Sax” The Hay les Roses, and in the conservatories of Palermo and Udine.

Mario is a passionate divulger of the saxophone, expecially of Italian original and contemporary music, evidenced by the 25 and more  masterclasses he held. He was also music coordinator of the School of Music “C. Eccher “of Trento, on Winds Orchestral studies department. He is currently a saxophonist of the National Italian State Police Winds Orchestra.He has conducted the Holy Saxophone Ensemble (Taiwan), Ensemble Orizzonte (Italy), Hakka Traditional Chinese Orchestra, “Briccialdi” Symphonic Orchestra of Terni, Reno Galliera Winds Orchestra,  and TaoYuan Winds Orchestra. Mario is endorser of the Selmer Saxophones Company Paris and of BG France.

ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK

A man whose music has been described as “infectious , loud, and fun” (Gramophone Magazine), and “fascinatingly strange” (BBC Music Magazine), award-winning composer Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His music is regularly performed domestically and overseas, and his works are recorded and distributed on Navona Recordings, New Ariel, Crystal Records, Summit, Capstone, Beauport Classical, ERMMedia, AURecordings, Golden Crest, MSR Classics, Ablaze Records, Naxos, Amirani (Italy), and Delage (France). His works are published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, Alea Publishing, Trevco Music, The International Horn Society, Potenza Music, Delage Musique, and The Spectrum Press.

He has worked in diverse areas of music, including composing and arranging music for feature films, television scores, numerous industrial films and commercials, music publishing, and artist management. He works as an expert in music copyright cases and as a forensic musicologist. His violin concerto won the First Prize of the VVX Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Corciano, Italy), and his orchestral tone poem Upon Whose Shoulders We Stand won the 2017 Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Award. He has been awarded the prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship for additional work in Italy, as well as a residency at The MacDowell Colony. Further awards include the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal, Best in Show, and Top Recording of 2015 for Music Composition from the Global Music Awards, composer residencies at the famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with their 2016 Meritorious Service Award, and in 2018 he was named a featured composer for the Thailand International Composition Festival, where eight concerts of his music were presented. For more information, please visit his website.

NAOMI FUJIYA

Based in Rome, Naomi Fujiya is a japanese pianist active primarily in Japan and Europe. Playing piano from the age of 4, she graduated from the Sapporo Otani Junior College Music department piano course and she served as assistant until Naomi moved to Italy in 2003, graduating with the highest marks and prize in 2005 at the Estense Music Academy with M°Oliver Kern and in 2008 at the Music Academy Pescarese with M°Bruno Mezzena. She debuted in Italy with the second Rachmaninov Concerto in Modena and the first Prokofiev Concerto in Pescara, has since then held numerous concerts in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Lebanon, England, Spain and Japan.

She has recently exhibited at the Quirinale palace, it was broadcast on the radio. Naomi has won several national and international competitions. She performs chamber music with important musicians such as Fabrizio Meloni (Scala di Milano), Sauro Berti (Opera di Roma), Andrea Noferini (Opera di Roma), Gianfranco Bortolato (Opera di Roma), Antonio Saiote (Portugal), Paolo Beltramini (Italian Switzerland), the violinist Franco Mezzena, and many others. The presence of some videos on Limen Music online and the publication of the CD “Suggestions” for Edipan in Rome in duo with Sauro Berti. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary with a preference for the romantic period.

THE ECCHER SCHOOL OF MUSIC VOCAL ENSEMBLE

The vocal Ensemble C. Eccher is composed of 14 people mostly teachers of the music school C. Eccher Valli del Noce from Trento, Italy. The female section was established in 2012 and is directed by the choir master Chiara Biondani. Over the last years the Ensemble has collaborated with many musicians and has taken part in Jazz festivals such as TrentinoJazzFestival, an important national festival.

In 2016 the Ensemble produced an album entitled “Doublesex” in partnership with Sonata Island and published by “A simple lunch.” The album is a jazz recital for a voice acting actress, vocal ensemble, and instrumental trio. For more information, please visit their website.

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SAURO BERTI & MARIO CIACCIO

SAURO BERTI, bass clarinet of the “Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,” has collaborated with the most important Italian orchestras (Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, RAI National Orchestra), the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä and the Thailand Philarmonic Orchestra. He has played under G. Prêtre, R. Chailly, M. W. Chung, R. Muti, W. Sawallisch, V. Gergiev, L. Maazel, P. Boulez, and Z. Mehta. He participated in the DVD of Mozart’s “Gran Partita” under M°Muti.

He was a soloist at the Tokyo ClarinetFest2008, the last ten ClarinetFest® 2009-2018 (Porto, Austin, Los Angeles, Lincoln, Assisi, Baton Rouge, Madrid, Lawrence, Orlando, and Ostend), the 2nd Costa Rica Festival, the 1st and 2nd Peruvian Congreso Latinoamericanos, the 5th “Congreso de Madrid,” the Festival Guimarães 2012, the 3rd Guatemala Festival 2013 and the “2015 China International Festival” and the “2016 Mexico Festival Musicademia.” In 2009 he obtained his conducting diploma with D. Renzetti. He has published “Venti Studi per Clarinetto Basso,” “Tuning” for winds (Suvini Zerboni), his version of V. Bucchi’s concerto and the CDs: “Suggestions” (Edipan) and “Solo Non Solo” (Ravello Records) SB. is a D’Addario Artist and plays on Buffet Crampon Tosca instruments, Selmer mouthpieces, and Silverstein ligatures. For more information - please visit his website.

MARIO CIACCIO, eclectic saxophonist and Italian conductor, has held over 250 recitals and concerts in Italy, Spain, Austria, USA, Israel, Scotland, Belgium, Taiwan, Russia and China, Iran, Cuba. Mario is a saxophone graduate with honors at the Conservatory “V. Bellini “in Palermo, Conservatory Val du Brieve (France) and “ Bonporti “conservatory in Trento. He had a Master degree with honors  in orchestral conducting at the “Briccialdi” Conservatory in Terni.

He has won twelve national and international competitions and has made lectures on contemporary saxophone music in various universities, including Rice University (USA), the University of Arkansas (USA), the University of Suny (USA), St. Thomas University (USA), the Taiwan Army Wind Orchestra (TW) and the Novosibisrk Conservatory of Music (Russia). He is frequently invited as a jury member in prestigious competitions including the International

Competition “Adolphe Sax” The Hay les Roses, and in the conservatories of Palermo and Udine.

Mario is a passionate divulger of the saxophone, expecially of Italian original and contemporary music, evidenced by the 25 and more  masterclasses he held. He was also music coordinator of the School of Music “C. Eccher “of Trento, on Winds Orchestral studies department. He is currently a saxophonist of the National Italian State Police Winds Orchestra.He has conducted the Holy Saxophone Ensemble (Taiwan), Ensemble Orizzonte (Italy), Hakka Traditional Chinese Orchestra, “Briccialdi” Symphonic Orchestra of Terni, Reno Galliera Winds Orchestra,  and TaoYuan Winds Orchestra. Mario is endorser of the Selmer Saxophones Company Paris and of BG France.

ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK

A man whose music has been described as “infectious , loud, and fun” (Gramophone Magazine), and “fascinatingly strange” (BBC Music Magazine), award-winning composer Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His music is regularly performed domestically and overseas, and his works are recorded and distributed on Navona Recordings, New Ariel, Crystal Records, Summit, Capstone, Beauport Classical, ERMMedia, AURecordings, Golden Crest, MSR Classics, Ablaze Records, Naxos, Amirani (Italy), and Delage (France). His works are published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, Alea Publishing, Trevco Music, The International Horn Society, Potenza Music, Delage Musique, and The Spectrum Press.

He has worked in diverse areas of music, including composing and arranging music for feature films, television scores, numerous industrial films and commercials, music publishing, and artist management. He works as an expert in music copyright cases and as a forensic musicologist. His violin concerto won the First Prize of the VVX Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Corciano, Italy), and his orchestral tone poem Upon Whose Shoulders We Stand won the 2017 Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Award. He has been awarded the prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship for additional work in Italy, as well as a residency at The MacDowell Colony. Further awards include the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal, Best in Show, and Top Recording of 2015 for Music Composition from the Global Music Awards, composer residencies at the famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with their 2016 Meritorious Service Award, and in 2018 he was named a featured composer for the Thailand International Composition Festival, where eight concerts of his music were presented. For more information, please visit his website.

NAOMI FUJIYA

Based in Rome, Naomi Fujiya is a japanese pianist active primarily in Japan and Europe. Playing piano from the age of 4, she graduated from the Sapporo Otani Junior College Music department piano course and she served as assistant until Naomi moved to Italy in 2003, graduating with the highest marks and prize in 2005 at the Estense Music Academy with M°Oliver Kern and in 2008 at the Music Academy Pescarese with M°Bruno Mezzena. She debuted in Italy with the second Rachmaninov Concerto in Modena and the first Prokofiev Concerto in Pescara, has since then held numerous concerts in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Lebanon, England, Spain and Japan.

She has recently exhibited at the Quirinale palace, it was broadcast on the radio. Naomi has won several national and international competitions. She performs chamber music with important musicians such as Fabrizio Meloni (Scala di Milano), Sauro Berti (Opera di Roma), Andrea Noferini (Opera di Roma), Gianfranco Bortolato (Opera di Roma), Antonio Saiote (Portugal), Paolo Beltramini (Italian Switzerland), the violinist Franco Mezzena, and many others. The presence of some videos on Limen Music online and the publication of the CD “Suggestions” for Edipan in Rome in duo with Sauro Berti. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary with a preference for the romantic period.

THE ECCHER SCHOOL OF MUSIC VOCAL ENSEMBLE

The vocal Ensemble C. Eccher is composed of 14 people mostly teachers of the music school C. Eccher Valli del Noce from Trento, Italy. The female section was established in 2012 and is directed by the choir master Chiara Biondani. Over the last years the Ensemble has collaborated with many musicians and has taken part in Jazz festivals such as TrentinoJazzFestival, an important national festival.

In 2016 the Ensemble produced an album entitled “Doublesex” in partnership with Sonata Island and published by “A simple lunch.” The album is a jazz recital for a voice acting actress, vocal ensemble, and instrumental trio. For more information, please visit their website.

​

SAURO BERTI & MARIO CIACCIO

SAURO BERTI, bass clarinet of the “Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,” has collaborated with the most important Italian orchestras (Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, RAI National Orchestra), the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä and the Thailand Philarmonic Orchestra. He has played under G. Prêtre, R. Chailly, M. W. Chung, R. Muti, W. Sawallisch, V. Gergiev, L. Maazel, P. Boulez, and Z. Mehta. He participated in the DVD of Mozart’s “Gran Partita” under M°Muti.

He was a soloist at the Tokyo ClarinetFest2008, the last ten ClarinetFest® 2009-2018 (Porto, Austin, Los Angeles, Lincoln, Assisi, Baton Rouge, Madrid, Lawrence, Orlando, and Ostend), the 2nd Costa Rica Festival, the 1st and 2nd Peruvian Congreso Latinoamericanos, the 5th “Congreso de Madrid,” the Festival Guimarães 2012, the 3rd Guatemala Festival 2013 and the “2015 China International Festival” and the “2016 Mexico Festival Musicademia.” In 2009 he obtained his conducting diploma with D. Renzetti. He has published “Venti Studi per Clarinetto Basso,” “Tuning” for winds (Suvini Zerboni), his version of V. Bucchi’s concerto and the CDs: “Suggestions” (Edipan) and “Solo Non Solo” (Ravello Records) SB. is a D’Addario Artist and plays on Buffet Crampon Tosca instruments, Selmer mouthpieces, and Silverstein ligatures. For more information - please visit his website.

MARIO CIACCIO, eclectic saxophonist and Italian conductor, has held over 250 recitals and concerts in Italy, Spain, Austria, USA, Israel, Scotland, Belgium, Taiwan, Russia and China, Iran, Cuba. Mario is a saxophone graduate with honors at the Conservatory “V. Bellini “in Palermo, Conservatory Val du Brieve (France) and “ Bonporti “conservatory in Trento. He had a Master degree with honors  in orchestral conducting at the “Briccialdi” Conservatory in Terni.

He has won twelve national and international competitions and has made lectures on contemporary saxophone music in various universities, including Rice University (USA), the University of Arkansas (USA), the University of Suny (USA), St. Thomas University (USA), the Taiwan Army Wind Orchestra (TW) and the Novosibisrk Conservatory of Music (Russia). He is frequently invited as a jury member in prestigious competitions including the International

Competition “Adolphe Sax” The Hay les Roses, and in the conservatories of Palermo and Udine.

Mario is a passionate divulger of the saxophone, expecially of Italian original and contemporary music, evidenced by the 25 and more  masterclasses he held. He was also music coordinator of the School of Music “C. Eccher “of Trento, on Winds Orchestral studies department. He is currently a saxophonist of the National Italian State Police Winds Orchestra.He has conducted the Holy Saxophone Ensemble (Taiwan), Ensemble Orizzonte (Italy), Hakka Traditional Chinese Orchestra, “Briccialdi” Symphonic Orchestra of Terni, Reno Galliera Winds Orchestra,  and TaoYuan Winds Orchestra. Mario is endorser of the Selmer Saxophones Company Paris and of BG France.

ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK

A man whose music has been described as “infectious , loud, and fun” (Gramophone Magazine), and “fascinatingly strange” (BBC Music Magazine), award-winning composer Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His music is regularly performed domestically and overseas, and his works are recorded and distributed on Navona Recordings, New Ariel, Crystal Records, Summit, Capstone, Beauport Classical, ERMMedia, AURecordings, Golden Crest, MSR Classics, Ablaze Records, Naxos, Amirani (Italy), and Delage (France). His works are published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, Alea Publishing, Trevco Music, The International Horn Society, Potenza Music, Delage Musique, and The Spectrum Press.

He has worked in diverse areas of music, including composing and arranging music for feature films, television scores, numerous industrial films and commercials, music publishing, and artist management. He works as an expert in music copyright cases and as a forensic musicologist. His violin concerto won the First Prize of the VVX Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Corciano, Italy), and his orchestral tone poem Upon Whose Shoulders We Stand won the 2017 Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Award. He has been awarded the prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship for additional work in Italy, as well as a residency at The MacDowell Colony. Further awards include the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal, Best in Show, and Top Recording of 2015 for Music Composition from the Global Music Awards, composer residencies at the famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with their 2016 Meritorious Service Award, and in 2018 he was named a featured composer for the Thailand International Composition Festival, where eight concerts of his music were presented. For more information, please visit his website.

NAOMI FUJIYA

Based in Rome, Naomi Fujiya is a japanese pianist active primarily in Japan and Europe. Playing piano from the age of 4, she graduated from the Sapporo Otani Junior College Music department piano course and she served as assistant until Naomi moved to Italy in 2003, graduating with the highest marks and prize in 2005 at the Estense Music Academy with M°Oliver Kern and in 2008 at the Music Academy Pescarese with M°Bruno Mezzena. She debuted in Italy with the second Rachmaninov Concerto in Modena and the first Prokofiev Concerto in Pescara, has since then held numerous concerts in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Lebanon, England, Spain and Japan.

She has recently exhibited at the Quirinale palace, it was broadcast on the radio. Naomi has won several national and international competitions. She performs chamber music with important musicians such as Fabrizio Meloni (Scala di Milano), Sauro Berti (Opera di Roma), Andrea Noferini (Opera di Roma), Gianfranco Bortolato (Opera di Roma), Antonio Saiote (Portugal), Paolo Beltramini (Italian Switzerland), the violinist Franco Mezzena, and many others. The presence of some videos on Limen Music online and the publication of the CD “Suggestions” for Edipan in Rome in duo with Sauro Berti. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary with a preference for the romantic period.

THE ECCHER SCHOOL OF MUSIC VOCAL ENSEMBLE

The vocal Ensemble C. Eccher is composed of 14 people mostly teachers of the music school C. Eccher Valli del Noce from Trento, Italy. The female section was established in 2012 and is directed by the choir master Chiara Biondani. Over the last years the Ensemble has collaborated with many musicians and has taken part in Jazz festivals such as TrentinoJazzFestival, an important national festival.

In 2016 the Ensemble produced an album entitled “Doublesex” in partnership with Sonata Island and published by “A simple lunch.” The album is a jazz recital for a voice acting actress, vocal ensemble, and instrumental trio. For more information, please visit their website.