Carlo Piazza - conductor

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PICTURES

CONDUCTING

WITH RENATA TEBALDI

CONDUCTING THE PARMA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

CONDUCTING THE PARMA OPERA ENSEMBLE

WITH ALBERTO MIODINI

"LA CAMBIALE DI
MATRIMONIO"

LINK

www.carlopiazza.it

CARLO PIAZZA

Conductor

Artistic Director of the Torrechiara Festival

Carlo Piazza studied with Maestro Arnold Östman, considered one of the greatest interpreters of Mozart. Having graduated in conducting, composition and violin Carlo Piazza began his conducting career at a very early age and has conducted concerts and operas in prestigious theatres both in Italy and abroad.

In 1994 he was accepted on a course for young conductors organised by the Emilia Romagna Region in collaboration with the European Union at the “Gianandrea Gavazzeni” Academy which he completed with the best assessment. He has worked with artists such as the bass Michele Pertusi (with whom he has also recorded a CD), the soprano Annamaria Dell’Oste, the flautist Giorgio Zagnoni, the pianist Maurizio Baglini, Enrico Bronzi (1st cellist of the orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan), Bin Huang (violinist winner of the 1994 international “Niccolò Paganini” competition in Genoa), Alberto Miodini, Ivan Rabaglia (pianist and violinist of the Trio di Parma). He collaborates with various orchestral groups including the orchestra of the Regio Theatre, Parma; the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra; the Archi Italiani (string ensemble), the “Gian Francesco Malipiero” Philharmonic Orchestra the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, the “A. Toscanini” Symphony Orchestra of Emilia Romagna, the “Giuseppe Verdi” Symphony Orchestra of Milan, the Virtuosi of La Scala, Milan and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Of the operas he has conducted we remember particularly Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte and La Clemenza di Tito, Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (at Le Théatre de Nîmes and Le Théatre National de Narbonne). The last opera he conducted for the Torrechiara Festival was Il Signor Bruschino by Rossini (2001). He has also assisted Maestro Arnold Östman prepare operas and concerts in Vienna, Stockholm, Trieste, Verona, Venice, Genoa and Ferrara (with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra).
He is the artistic director of the Festival di Torrechiara “Renata Tebaldi.