Orfeo Mandozzi

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Orfeo Mandozzi (* 1968 in Locarno ) is a Swiss cellist .

Life

Mandozzi is the son of a conductor and film composer. He studied cello, composition and conducting. His training facilities include the Paris Conservatory , the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, the Juilliard School in New York and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

In 1993 he became a member of the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra (of which he was a member until 2007), later of the Vienna Brahms Trio and the Vienna String Trio. In addition, he played in various other constellations with musicians such as Julian Rachlin , Boris Kuschnir , Juri Abramowitsch Baschmet and Stefan Vladar . In the original sound! Orchestra , which has specialized in the historically oriented practice of interpreting original instruments, he is one of the soloists.

Mandozzi has played concerts in Europe, North America, Asia and South America, including at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Wigmore Hall London, the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires and the Carnegie Hall New York. He has also made guest appearances at festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Schubert Festival, the Vienna Festival Weeks, the Prague Spring, the Bregenz Festival and the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival . He worked with the cellists Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch , Yo-Yo Ma , Harvey Shapiro , Paul Tortelier and Maurice Gendron .

At the Zurich University of the Arts he teaches the violoncello (major) in the classical profile. He plays a cello by Francesco Ruggeri from 1675 and one by Gianbattista “Giovanni” Grancino from 1720. In his vita as a professor you can also find the University of Music in Würzburg and master classes such as in San Marino . He is also the Artistic Director of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now in Zurich .

In 2013 he was a member of the jury for the violoncello subject at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize , which the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation awards in cooperation with the Rectors' Conference of the German Universities of Music (RKM) and the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK Berlin). In January 2017 he was a participant in the memorial concert for Gerhard Wimberger in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival .

As a composer, arranger and publisher, he has made around 300 contributions to the International Music Score Library Project , a virtual online library for sheet music in the public domain .

reception

With his "fascinating musical personality and the beguiling beauty of his tone", Mandozzi cast a spell over his audience, various media quote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

In a review of the work Josef Gabriel Rheinberger : Chamber Music with Organ , published by Carus in 2007 , Christof Jetzschke wrote for Klassik Heute : “The passionate playing of the cellist Orfeo Mandozzi, who with its voluminous tone and sophisticated dynamics the emotional exuberance of the three character pieces from op. 150 never lets slip into sweet sentimentality. "

When Mandozzi played together with Bernd Glemser at the invitation of the International Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Society in Liechtenstein, the fatherland subsequently judged : “No matter whether plucked or bowed, the virtuosity of the two professional musicians was incomparable. [...] The compositions sounded passionately from pianissimo to fortissimo, the tempos breathtaking, dizzying. "

Publications (selection)

  • 2002: Live Recital (ArteViva)
  • 2007: Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Chamber music with organ ( Carus )
  • 2010: Georg Goltermann, Wilhelm Jeral: Cello Concertos; Hugo Wolf: Corregidor Suite CD (with the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, XXI-21 Productions)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The joy of soloists - Tonkünstler repeatedly emerge from the collective of the orchestra . In: Tonkünstler magazine . No.  2 , 2003, p. 3 ( Issuu ).
  2. ↑ a b Classical - Orfeo Mandozzi, violoncello. In: events.at. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Soloists. In: originalklang.com. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Orfeo Mandozzi makes music at the master concert. In: main-echo.de . October 19, 2011, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Prof. Orfeo Mandozzi. In: zhdk.ch . Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Florian Godovits: "The work on yourself is actually the more valuable". In: epoch-times.de . February 6, 2010, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  7. ↑ The bed - Viola Venschott & Steffen Ziemendorf. In: kulturpass.net. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Orfeo Mandozzi. In: sanmarinoartist.com. July 2, 2010, accessed February 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Responsible persons and contact persons. In: livemusicnow.ch Zurich region. February 26, 2018, accessed February 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Mandozzi, Prof. Orfeo. In: fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de. November 1, 2012, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Susanne Prucher (ed.): Almanach of the Mozarteum University Salzburg: academic year 2016/17 . Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99012-485-7 , p. 124 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
  12. ↑ Category: Mandozzi, Orfeo. In: International Music Score Library Project . Accessed February 26, 2018 (English).
  13. ^ Rheinberger: Chamber Music with Organ Compact Disc, SACD. In: carus-verlag.com . Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
  14. ^ Christof Jetzschke: Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Chamber Music with Organ. In: klassik-heute.de. February 7, 2008, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Musical passion. In: vaterland.li . May 29, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mandozzi, Orfeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Locarno