Name: Nil Venditti
Start: 2021-09-15
Location: Teatro Morlacchi

Direttore ospite principale dell’Orchestra della Toscana per la stagione 2021/22, la giovane italo-turca Nil Venditti, nata a Perugia, ha già stabilito collaborazioni regolari con orchestre e complessi come la Filarmonica dei Paesi Bassi, l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse e l’Ensemble Ancyra di Ankara. Nel 2019 debutta con la Camerata Salzburg in un programma di musiche di Fazil Say, con solista al pianoforte lo stesso compositore, uno dei suoi sostenitori più entusiasti. Dal 2019 al 2021 è stata assistente di Marc Albrecht e la Filarmonica dei Paesi Bassi, con la quale ha debuttato al Concertgebouw di Amsterdam nel dicembre 2020. Nil Venditti ha grande affinità con il repertorio classico e sta ampliando anche il suo repertorio operistico, dopo aver già diretto opere di Mozart, Salieri, Bizet e Peter Maxwell-Davies. Sostenitrice nella ricerca di una relazione inclusiva con gli spettatori, ha collaborato alla direzione del Concerto per pubblico e orchestra di Nicola Campogrande, in cui il pubblico è parte integrante dell’esecuzione come solista facendosi guidare dal direttore. Nil Venditti si è diplomata in violoncello con Francesco Pepicelli al Conservatorio di Perugia e in direzione d’orchestra con Marcello Bufalini al Conservatorio dell’Aquila. In seguito, si è perfezionata con Neeme e Pavel Järvi e con Johannes Schlaefli.

In the two decades since her professional debut, pianist Mariangela Vacatello has brought her virtuosity, passionate interpretations, and magnificent musicality to diverse global audiences. She is recognized worldwide as an exceptionally gifted artist, reflected in the numerous awards and effusive reviews she has received for both her live performances and recordings for Brilliant Classics. Her performances are regularly broadcasted by prestigious Radio Stations worldwide. The Second Prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in 1999 at the age of 17 catapulted her towards an international career as a soloist, performing at Teatro alla Scala Milan, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Walt Disney Hall, Montpellier Festival, Carnegie Weill Hall in NYC, Oriental Centre in Shanghaj. She has since appeared regularly with such prominent orchestras as the Teatro alla Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Ungarian National Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome, RAI in Turin, WDR Köln, Lithuanian Symphony, Stuttgarter Philharmonics, Nordwestdeutsche Orchestra, Johannesburg Philarmonic, “Haydn” in Trento and Bolzano, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Zagreb Philarmonia, Pannon Philharmonic, Moldavian Radio Television, RSI Orchestra, Belgrade Philarmonic Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Colorado Spring Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra. She has performed with renowned conductors such as Krystof Penderecky, Andris Nelsons, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Martin Haselboeck, Gustav Kuhn, Xian Zhang, Christopher Franklin, Oleg Caetani, Alexander Shelley, Michael Tabachnik, Andrès Orozco-Estrada, Roland Boer, Aleksander Slatkovky, Gerard Korsten, Daniel Kawka, Bernard Gueller, Zsolt Hamar, Anton Nanut, Donato Renzetti, Alain Lombard, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Daniel Meyer, Carolyn Kuan, Claus Peter Flor, Robert Trevino, Ilan Volkov. With Orchestra della Magna Grecia she has performed the Five Piano Concertos by S. Rachmaninov. In her Awards: The Solti Foundation Award, Nino Carloni Prize, XVII Venice Prize; she has been the first Italian woman to be awarded as Finalist and Worldwide Audience Award at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1st Prize Top of the World International Piano Competition 2009, Laureate Prize Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in 2007, Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 2005, I.Yun in memoriam Korea 2008; she has been Rising Star for The Gilmore in 2010/2011. Mariangela Vacatello was born in Naples, Italy, from a family of musicians that started her to music lessons at the age of four; her talent has been accelerated by studies at Imola Piano Academy, Milan Conservatory and Royal Academy of Music in London, besides several mastercalsses around the world. Her musical curiosity in the contemporary repertoire has brought her to collaborate with IRCAM several times in Paris in a world premieres as a Piano Quintet for SmartInstruments (new technology that will permit to join both classical and digital sounds )and to work with the composer Georges Aperghis; the last collaboration with Ircam, Milano Musica and LaBiennale Venice has included Kinderszenen, a new piano concerto with electronic and orchestra by Marco Momi. Actually Mariangela is living in Umbria and is a sought-after teacher as Piano Professor at the Conservatoire “F. Morlacchi” in Perugia and in Pinerolo International Music Academy. For Italian Tv RAI she has been invited to record with Marco Angius the 3rd Concerto by L. v. Beethoven and a program with Kinderszenen by Schumann with a text by Sandro Cappelletto. In January 2024 the Italian TV RAI5 has premiered Ms Vacatello's project with the performance of the ten Piano Sonatas by Alexander Scriabin: "Ten Color's for 10 Piano Sonatas" is a unique project because Vacatello is the only pianist in the world to have filmed the complete cycle. From 2024 to 2026 Mariangela Vacatello has been appointed Artistic Director of “Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, Tuscany.

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