GIULIA MANICARDI
Conductor
Giulia Manicardi was born in Modena and graduated in piano under the guide of Maestro F. Scala at the Conservatory “A. Pedrollo” in Vicenza.
She graduated with a first class degree at the Institute of Music, University of Parma.
She graduated in conducting with a first class degree under the guide of Maestro L. Acocella at the Conservatory “G. B. Martini” in Bologna.
She attended master classes at the International Academy of Piano “Incontri col maestro” in Imola with Teachers: N. Magaloff, L. Berman, A. Lonquich, B. Petrushansky, J. Demus, S. Fiorentino.
Moreover, she studied piano with Maestro M. Teresa Carunchio, composition with C. Giacomini, C. Landuzzi and vocal technique with G. Visintin.
Further experiences include chamber music, taking part in several national and international competitions and winning important prizes and recognition. She is an active solo and chamber pianist and has many important collaborations with opera and lieder singers.
She has been teaching advanced courses for actors at the ERT, Emilia Romagna Theatres.
Since 2010 she held workshops on vocal technique at the Casa Encendida in Madrid.
She attended conducting master classes with Maestros V. Tchiftchian (Academy of Sofia), D. Pascu (National Academy of Bucarest) and achieved her higher diploma at the “Istituto A. Benvenuti” in Conegliano. She took part in the 8th edition of the international Masterclass for conductors, sponsored by the Feltrina Music Association “G.B.Maffioletti”. In 2004 she achieved the Diploma of Conducting at the Wiener Meisterkurse (Wien) with Maestro S. Mas Conde.
She studied at the Masterclass in Musikhochschule of Luzern with M° Bernard Haitink and Luzern Symphony Orchestra (Luzern 2007).
She performed in a variety of concerts, such as the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest, the Symphony Festival Orchestra of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), the Venice Symphony Orchestra, the Baroque Ensemble of Teatina Chapel ( Bologna), the Ensemble Guidantus, AdM Ensemble, Vratza Philarmonic Orchestra (BG), Arte Resoluta, Alighieri Symphony Orchestra of Ravenna, I Musici of the Accademia of Bologna.
Since 2001 she is stable Conductor of “L. Gazzotti” Choir (Modena), which she performed many productions with, including G. Faurè (Requiem), A. Vivaldi (Gloria, Magnificat), J. Haydn (Nelson Mass), A. Scarlatti (Dixit Dominus), G. F. Handel (Dixit Dominus, Laudate Pueri), W. A. Mozart (Davide Penitente, Great Mass in C minor), J. Brahms (A German Requiem), L. Bernstein (Chichester Psalms) G. Rossini (Petite Messe Solennelle).
She worked with Maestro Luciano Acocella as an assistant.
In the 2011/12 season she conducted Verdi’s La Traviata and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in the theaters of Cesena, Correggio, Chiavari, Salsomaggiore, Rimini, under the direction of Paolo Panizza in the OPERA FUTURA productions.
From December 2011 she started a collaboration with the Orchestra I Musici of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna through a series of concerts including the Academic Celebrations, held in Bologna in 2012.
Biography updated in August 2012
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