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The piano at the University | 13 giugno 2024

The piano at the University

Milan

Mariangela Vacatello

Program:

  • Presentation of the complete recording of Scriabin's Sonatas:
    Alexander Scriabin
    Sonata No. 3 op. 23
    Drama - Allegretto - Andante - Presto con fuoco
    Sonata No. 5 op. 53
    Sonata No. 9 op. 68 "Black Mass"
    Sonata No. 10 op. 69 "Insects"
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Mariangela Vacatello began her career at a very young age and established herself on the international scene at the age of 17, with the 2nd prize at the "F. Liszt" competition in Utrecht. Since then he has collected many prestigious awards: "F. Busoni" Competition in Bolzano, "Van Cliburn" in Texas, "Top of the World" in Norway, "Queen Elisabeth" in Brussels, XVII Venice Prize, The Solti Foundation Award, "Nino Carloni" Critics' Award, Rising Star "The Gilmore" and many more. 

For over twenty years she has been recognized for the curiosity and versatility of her performance horizons, for the virtuosity and passion that can be found in every piece she includes in her repertoire; these characteristics are reflected in the reviews of concerts and recordings for the Brilliant Classics label and in the projects that have seen her collaborate with the Ircam - Centre Pompidou in Paris and with the Spinola-Banna Foundation of Contemporary Art for which she was Artist in Residence together with the composer Georges Aperghis (Golden Lion in Venice and BBVA). 

She has performed in some of the most important concert seasons in the world such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, IRCAM in Paris, Musica Insieme Bologna, Società dei Concerti in Milan, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Unione Musicale in Turin, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Weill Hall in New York, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Oriental Centre in Shanghai, collaborating with the Orchestra Nazionale dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra Rai di Torino, Filarmonica della Scala, Prague Chamber Orchestra, RSI Lugano, Filarmonica di Stuttgart and conductors such as Krystof Penderecky, Andris Nelsons, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Martin Haselboeck, Gustav Kuhn, Alexander Shelley, Xian Zhang, Christopher Franklin, Oleg Caetani, 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, Luigi Piovano. With the Orchestra della Magna Grecia he performed the Five Concertos of S. Rachmaninov.

Mariangela Vacatello was born in Castellammare di Stabia, Naples, she has lived in Milan and London, where she studied and perfected her skills at the International Piano Academy of Imola, the Milan Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music. He currently lives in Perugia and combines his piano career with teaching at the "F. Morlacchi" Conservatory of Music in Perugia, at the Academy of Music in Pinerolo and in various masterclasses.

Among the engagements of the 2019 and 2020 seasons were: a recital at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, a tour in South Africa, the collaboration in the project "Scriabin and the contemporary" with IRCAM – La Scala Paris, a concert for the Venice Biennale. In 2020 she returned to perform at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan for a recital program with music by Debussy, Schumann,  Aperghis, Stroppa and Maresz: the latter wrote the pieces for her as part of the Milano Musica Festival; He also took part in the RAI project "Immortali amate", recording on video the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra op. 37 No. 3 in C minor by L. V. Beethoven.

Great music in Milan

The PIANO IN ATENEO project is the result of an agreement between the Milan branch of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and one of the most important houses in the world of musical instruments, Kawai Pianos of Hamamatsu (Japan). Its promoters are the Master Davide Cabassi (lecturer at the Milan Conservatory) and Prof. Enrico Reggiani (director of the Studium Musicale di Ateneo) as artistic creator and scientific director, respectively.
The aim of the project is to contribute to enriching the musical offer of the City of Milan according to innovative criteria and methods from a cultural-musicological point of view and of the highest artistic profile, first of all, by establishing a chamber music season at the Aula Magna of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan which will make use of established and prestigious names in international piano concerts.

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