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Stefano Montanari - conductor
One of the most outstanding baroque violinists of his generation, Stefano
Montanari is now much in demand as a conductor with both modern and period
orchestras. Stefano Montanari was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recording
of Purcell’s O Solitude with Andreas Scholl for Decca. His recording of
Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas was published for the Italian music magazine
Amadeus. He recently wrote a Baroque Violin method, published by Carisch. M°
Montanari lately made his theatre debut at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow
conducting Così Fan Tutte. In Venice, where he regularly appears both in
opera and concert, he recently conducted Cavalli’s Eritrea (first
performance in modern times), L’Inganno Felice and Don Giovanni.
He also made his debut with the Opera in Rome at the Terme di Caracalla
conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia, an opera he also conducted at the
Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. Always active as a virtuoso violinist, Stefano
Montanari has just played the whole series of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas at
the Opéra de Lyon. After a successful concert with the Orchestra del Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino, he has been reinvited to conduct Dido & Aeneas at
the Opera in Florence, Bach’s B minor mass and other symphonic
concerts; he also recently returned to I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan conducting
a symphonic concert. Stefano Montanari obtained a huge success conducting Il
Viaggio a Reims (new production by Damiano Michieletto) in Amsterdam. His
most recent engagements include: Caldara’s Dafne at the Palazzo Ducale in
Venice, Don Giovanni at the Arena in Verona and Sonatas and Partitas
for solo violin by Bach at the Settimane Musicali in Stresa. Maestro Montanari
regularly collaborates and records with jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and
composer Gianluigi Trovesi.
Future plans: Agrippina in
Antwerp; Le Nozze di Figaro for OperaLombardia (Como, Cremona, Brescia,
Pavia, Bergamo); L’Elisir d’Amore and symphonic concerts at the Teatro la
Fenice in Venice; La Clemenza di Tito (Tchaikovsky Concert Hall with the
Russian National Orchestra) and Così fan Tutte (Bolshoi) in Moscow;
Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Warsaw Philharmonic in Warsaw; concerts
in Florence with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Turin with the
Filarmonica del Teatro Regio di Torino and at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe.
He will also play in several concerts with his own ensemble L’Estravagante in
Italy and Europe, with the Arion Baroque Orchestra in Montréal and he will
return to the Opéra de Lyon involved in several new projects, among which Die
Entführung aus dem Serail and a baroque concert.
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