Riccardo Minasi

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Riccardo Minasi (* 1978 in Rome ) is an Italian violinist and conductor specializing in historical performance practice .

Life

Riccardo Minasi received his first music lessons from his mother, he studied modern violin with Paolo Centurioni and Alfredo Fiorentini. He then turned to the baroque violin and the corresponding repertoire, his teachers in this area were Enrico Parizzi and Luigi Mangiocavallo.

He was both as a soloist and concertmaster in numerous ensembles, such as: "Le Concert des Nations" under Jordi Savall , the "Accademia Bizantina", the "Concerto Italiano", with Il Giardino Armonico , the "Concerto Vocale Gent" active under René Jacobs , the Collegium 1704 or the "Ensemble 415" under Chiara Banchini . Major musicians with whom he has performed include Enrico Onofri , Viktoria Mullova , Albrecht Mayer , Christophe Coin , Sergio Azzolini and Reinhard Goebel . He has also worked as a conductor with several well-known ensembles, including the Potsdam Chamber Academy , the Ensemble Resonanz , the Zurich Chamber Orchestra , the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and the “Helsinki Baroque Orchestra”, of which he has been 1st Kapellmeister since 2008. In 2007 he founded the chamber music ensemble “Musica Antiqua Roma”, with which he performs works from the 17th and 18th centuries. One focus is the forgotten Roman composers from this period.

In 2009 Minasi was appointed historical advisor to the Orchester symphonique de Montréal . In 2010 he worked as assistant conductor and concertmaster in the Dortmund production of the opera Norma von Bellini with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble at the side of Thomas Hengelbrock .

From 2004 to 2010, Minasi taught chamber music at the Vincenco Bellini Conservatory in Palermo . He led master classes and courses for violin, chamber music and baroque orchestra at the "Longy School of Music" in Cambridge (USA), the "Sibelius Academy" in Helsinki, the "Chinese Culture University" in Taipei, the "Kùks Residence" in the Czech Republic, the “Conservatory of Sydney” and the “Scuola di Musica” in Fiesole.

Riccardo Minasi has at his disposal, among other things, violins that are attributed to the violin makers David Tecchler (1666–1748) and Amati (1623).

Minasi was chief conductor of the ensemble Il pomo d'oro from its founding in 2012 to 2015. The new orchestra won prizes with its first recording - Vivaldi's L'imperatore - and in the founding year it also edited solo albums by the countertenors Max Emanuel Cenčić , Franco Fagioli and Xavier Sabata , as well as an album with a Venetian barcarole . Since 2013 the ensemble has made guest appearances in important houses all over Europe, for example in the Theater an der Wien , in Paris, Munich, London, St. Petersburg, Zurich and Barcelona.

In December 2016 Riccardo Minasi was appointed chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg as successor to Ivor Bolton .

In September 2018, Minasi started for two seasons as "Artist in Residence" of Ensemble Resonanz at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.

Many of the more than 20 CD recordings on which he has participated as a soloist have received record awards. The recording of Heinrich Ignaz Biber's Rosary Sonatas entered the final round of the Midem Classical Award for 2009 as an album .

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV on the personal website
  2. ↑ Biography on the Linnrecords website
  3. ↑ orf.at - Mozarteum Orchestra: Minasi new chief conductor . Article dated December 20, 2016, accessed December 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ abendblatt.de - Ensemble Resonanz presents plans for the new season . Article dated May 5, 2017, accessed June 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Minasi, Riccardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome