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L’INFORMAZIONE (San Marino) May 6, 2016
The music of Puccini opens today the seventh edition of Maskfest
Cerrai, Mustaro and young Teani are the performers of the concert dedicated to the music of Lucca’s 90th.
Today at 17.30 starts in San Marino, on the main floor of Palazzo Graziani (Piazzale LoStradone, San Marino City) on VII MASKFEST 2016 – Festival International of Nuova Musica with a dedicated concert to the opera music of the 90th from Lucca. A “singular tenzone “of works written by musicians of the same geographical area but of a different generations, including a very young one composer and pianist, Stefano Teani, who confronts himself with scores dear to him: Romeo and Juliet’s love song for soprano and piano by his Maestro Pietro Rigacci, The waves of this sea for tenor and piano by his friend and Maestro Francesco Cipriano, and some arias from ‘La Boheme and from Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. The interpreters, together with young Teani, are Valeria Cerrai (soprano) and Marco Mustaro (tenor). The concert, sponsored by the Secretariat of State for Education, Culture and the University and supported by the Ente Cassa di Faetano and by Giochi del Titano, in collaboration with the Lucchese association of contemporary music Cluster and the San Marino Music Institute. The cost for listening to this chamber music concert and getting to know directly the interpretations of only €5.
Valeria Cerrai, born in Pisa in 1982, was part of the S. Nicola di Pisa choir, first as a white voice in the Piccoli Cantori and then as a chorist in the Polyphonic Choir, conducted by Mo Stefano Barandoni; in this way, since she was a child, she was able to compete in solo roles in the repertoire of polyphonic, sacred and contemporary music in Italy and abroad. Under the guidance of Mo Marco Bargagna she has participated in the production of numerous works as a chorister and soloist. She has collaborated with various opera choirs. with whom she has performed in theaters and as part of concert events in Italy and abroad (Austria, Germany, Principality of Monaco, Spain and Egypt). During your concert activity she has developed a repertoire that includes composers such as Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, Couperin. She’s currently perfectioning her opera singing studies with Mo Marco Mustaro.
Marco Mustaro, tenor, born in Cagliari in 1975, conducted his musical studies at the “Luigi Boccherini” Music Institute of Lucca, under the guidance of masters Anna Vandi and Giovanni Dagnino, obtaining, in 2001, the diploma in opera singing and attended advanced courses held by the masters Gabriella Ravazzi, Luigi Roni, Giuliana Menchini, Fernanda Piccini e William Matteuzzi. He deepened the study of vocal technique studying the Functional Voicecraft method of Gisela Rohmert, from 2006 to 2010, at the Lichtenberger Institute für angewandte Stimmphysiologie in Darmstadt (Germany), the Formazione Quadriennale Italiana del Metodo Lichtenberger, after which he obtained the certificate to teach the method. He won the competitions “Città di Massa”, “Terme di San Giuliano”, “Città di Orvieto” and “Città di Pistoia”. He regularly performs in concerts, especially for the bel canto repertoire and chamber music. He is graduated in Lettere Classiche.
Stefano Teani, was born in Lucca in 1994. He was admitted in the Istituto Musicale L. Boccherini in the piano class of Maria Gloria Belli, with who he graduates in 2014 with highest grades, cum laude and honorable mention. In 2008, also, he enters the composition class of Mo Pietro Rigacci. In 2009 and 2010 he follows the summer courses in piano of North London Piano School under the guide of important teachers, obtaining in 2010 the public performance at the best students final concert in the Duke’s Hall of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2013 he wins a scholarship from the Istituto Boccherini, having the chance to study, in Salzburg Mozarteum, with Mo Aquiles Delle Vigne, performing in the University and in Wiener Saal. In 2014 he attends the piano masterclass of Pietro De Maria and the composition one of Mo Girolamo Deraco, obtaining at the end the publishing of his piece for Vibraphone. He also begins his job of repetiteur with the production of Così fan tutte ander Mo Janos Acs. In 2015 he got the eligibility after the selections of repetiteurs of the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; he also starts his training under the guide of Mo Gustav Kuhn.
