On the occasion of Italy’s National Day and Mayor Marco Bucci of Genoa‘s visit of San Francisco, The Consulate General of Italy and The Italian Cultural Institute pay homage to the city of Genoa with a beautiful double concert.
We will listen to musics of Paganini, Rossini, Carulli, Bellini, Schubert, Verdi and Beethoven, performed by duo Andrea Cardinale & José Scanu and Quartetto Dàidalos.
The duo violin guitar Andrea Cardinale and José Scanu was formed with the intent of studying and appreciating the wide repertoire originally written for this type of Chamber music from the baroque to the present day. In his prolific career, we have to highlight the participation at “Festival internazionale paganiniano di Carro” in 2016 and the concert in the symphonic season of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in March 2017 on the occasion of 145th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Mazzini.
On 9 February 2018 at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa the duo did play for the first time in history the violin of Paganini with the guitar of Mazzini in front of over 1200 people.
The duo play with historical instruments and specifically Cardinale a Vuillaume violin 1864 model “Cannone” copy of Paganini’s Guarneri del Gesù and Scanu a Ramirez belonged to Andrés Segovia of 1960 and a “Carlo Bruno” of Guadagnini of the late nineteenth century.
Andrea Cardinale graduated from the Conservatory N. Paganini in Genova with Prof. Riccardo Malfatto and he studied with the famous masters Berl Senofsky (Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore) Damian Cottalasso (La Scala), Alberto Casabona, Giuseppe Gaccetta, Franco Gulli, Giuliano Carmignola and for long time with Ruggiero Ricci. In over twenty years of career he performed as a soloist in all continents. He has recorded more than 15 CDs for Italian, German, British and American labels. More recently, he has recorded the cd produced by Broad-Way called “Il Salotto Rosso di Paganini” with full version of the famous 24 Caprices (performed several times in concert), reviewed enthusiastically from the most respected violinists and music critics and selected by Ricordi-Feltrinelli. He has performed in concert in Cremona waving the Stradivari “il Cremonese” and the Guarneri del Gesù “Stauffer”.
José Scanu studied with Italian tutees of the great Andrés Segovia, including Guido Margaria, with whom is brilliantly graduated from the Conservatory “Vivaldi” in Alessandria.
He is the founder of Camerata Musicale Ligure active since 1989, with whom he has performed hundreds of concerts, with a repertoire ranging from baroque to modern music.
Scanu has recorded for RAI, various record companies (Philarmonia, DeVega, rare, Dynamic) and teached at the University of Genoa and at DAMS.
From June 2012 the municipality of Genoa-Museo del Risorgimento awarded him the prestigious role of enhancing through periodic executions in particular institutional events guitar Gennaro Fabbricatore of 1821, maker in Naples, belonged to Giuseppe Mazzini.
Quartetto Dàidalos is made of Anna Molinari (violin), Stefano Raccagni (violin), Lorenzo Lombardo (viola) and Lucia Molinari (cello).
It was founded in Novara (Italy) in October 2014 by four friends’ desire to deepen their study of chamber music. Although the young age of the four members (between 18 and 20 years’ old), the Quartetto Dàidalos has already performed in several concerts, both in Italy and abroad,
Since September 2015 the Quartetto Dàidalos has been studying at the “Walter Stauffer” Academy in Cremona under the guidance of the Quartetto di Cremona, together with attending their summer courses (Master4Strings) as well as following masterclasses.
Recently they also attended a masterclass organized by the Bayerische Musikakademie Marktoberdorf, under the guidance of Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet) and in 2017 /2018 they will have the chance to study with Lukas Hagen (Hagen Quartett) at the Pinerolo Music Academy.
They were invited to join the international project Le Dimore del Quartetto as one of the most talented young Italian string quartet. In December 2017 Quartetto Dàidalos was awarded with a special prize by the Italian branch of the Federation Internationale des Jeunesses Musicales, which offered the ensemble several concerts in the upcoming season.
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