Orchestra Mozart Bologna
The Orchestra Mozart Bologna was founded in 2004 on the initiative of Carlo Maria Badini and Fabio Roversi Monaco - as part of the Regia Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. Claudio Abbado acted as artistic director of the orchestra. At the beginning of 2014 the orchestra had to “temporarily” cease its activities due to Abbado's serious illness, although the orchestra had been nominated for the Grammy Award shortly before - for its recording of Schumann's second .
The orchestra was founded with the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna. Young musicians from all over Europe as well as soloists and section leaders from international orchestras - such as the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Florence are members. The Orchestra Mozart has already made guest appearances on all important podiums in Italy, at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival , in the Salle Pleyel in Paris and in the Vienna Musikverein . In October 2011 the ensemble opened the Culture Days of the European Central Bank in the Alte Oper Frankfurt .
In addition to its concert activities, the orchestra is also socially committed, for example in the music therapy project “Tamino” or in the project “Papageno”, which brings music to prisons . The focus of the orchestra's discography is naturally Mozart - with recordings of the last symphonies, the wind concertos, the violin concertos with Giuliano Carmignola and the piano concertos No. 20 and No. 27 with Maria João Pires . Three Pergolesi CDs with rarely performed works, as well as recordings of the violin concertos by Beethoven and Berg with Isabelle Faust and Bach's Brandenburg Concerts , also received considerable media coverage .
Diego Matheuz has been Principal Guest Conductor since 2010 . The soloists who have performed with the orchestra include Martha Argerich , Alfred Brendel , Hélène Grimaud , Radu Lupu , Yuja Wang , Mario Brunello , Natalia Gutman and singers such as Rachel Harnisch , Sara Mingardo , Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann .
Awards
- German Record Critics' Prize
- Premio Abbiati
- 2014 nomination for the Grammy Award for best orchestral performance
- 2014 ECHO Klassik in the category concert recording of the year with Martha Argerich (piano) under the direction of Claudio Abbado for Mozart's piano concertos 20 & 25
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manuel Brug: Abbado's Mozart Orchestra is about to end , Die Welt, January 14, 2014
- ↑ Echoklassik.de Klassik Prize Winner 2014 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 26, 2014