Giovanni Antonini

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Giovanni Antonini (* 1965 in Milano ) is an Italian flautist and conductor . He directs the baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico .

life and work

Antonini completed his musical training at the Civica Scuola di Musica in his hometown and at the Center de Musique Ancienne in Geneva . With his ensemble, Antonini was able to quickly establish himself as an exponent of historical performance practice - especially with exemplary Vivaldi concerts - and began recording records and making guest appearances in the most important concert halls in Europe and the USA, as well as in Canada, South America, Australia, Japan and Malaysia.

Il Giardino Armonico

As a founding member, Antonini has been leading the baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico since 1989 , conducting it and playing the recorder and transverse flute as a soloist. The ensemble was founded in 1985 by graduates of various European music academies in Milan - above all Luca Pianca and Antonini - and plays on historical instruments. Antonini and his ensemble have worked with artists such as Christoph Prégardien , Christophe Coin , Katia and Marielle Labèque , Lorenzo Ghielmi , Viktoria Mullova and Giuliano Carmignola and perform worldwide. The encounter with Cecilia Bartoli resulted in the Vivaldi album , which won the Grammy Award in 2000 , and the album Sacrificium in 2009 .

As a guest conductor

Giovanni Antonini is also a sought-after guest conductor of renowned orchestras in Berlin , Birmingham , Edinburgh , Munich , Paris , Stockholm , Toulouse , Zurich , as well as the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , the Camerata Salzburg and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment . At the invitation of Sir Simon Rattle , Antonini conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2004 and 2005 and presented works from the 17th and 18th centuries. He is currently working with the Basel Chamber Orchestra on a complete recording of the Haydn symphonies (Haydn 2032), the first eight have already been released.

As an opera conductor

In the opera field, Giovanni Antonini u. a. Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo , Georg Friedrich Handel's Agrippina and Aci, Galatea e Polifemo , Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva padrona and Domenico Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto . In the 2008/09 season he performed at La Scala in Milan with Le nozze di Figaro and Alcina . At the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2012 and 2013, Il Giardino Armonico , directed by Antonini, played in opera productions with Cecilia Bartoli in the female lead: Georg Friedrich Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Vincenzo Bellini's Norma in a version based on the version of the Premiere oriented. Both productions were included in the summer program of the Salzburg Festival .

The most recent recordings include Handel's Concerti grossi op. 6, Vivaldi's opera Ottone in villa and the albums Il Pianto di Maria - The Virgin's Lament with Bernarda Fink and Sacrificium with Cecilia Bartoli .

In 2013 Giovanni Antonini took over the artistic direction of the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Poland, where he performed Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha triumphans in 2019 .

Awards

Opera productions

Selected recordings

  • Antonio Vivaldi, Concerti per liuti e mandolini (Luca Pianca: liuto, chitarre, mandolino, intégral)
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Concertos pour violoncelle ( Christophe Coin  : violoncelle)
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Le Quattro Stagioni ( Enrico Onofri  : violino solo)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Six Brandenburg Concerts ( Enrico Onofri  : violon, violon piccolo)
  • Handel: Cantates
  • Locke: La Tempete
  • Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (extraits)
  • Vivaldi: Concertos pour violon (various)
  • Vivaldi: Sonates pour violoncelle (intégrale)

Albums with Cecilia Bartoli

  • The Vivaldi album
  • Sacrificium

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Harb: The conductor of "Norma" promises a shock . In: salzburg.com , May 16, 2013, accessed on May 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ Vivaldi Oratorio in Breslau: Antonini lets Judith triumph , broadcast of the concert on October 19, 2019 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur , moderation: Volker Michael

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personal data
SURNAME Antonini, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian flautist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Milano