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Stefano Montanari - conductor and violinist
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. He
recently 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 Rome Opera conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Baths of
Caracalla. 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.
Stefano Montanari gained a huge success conducting Il Viaggio a Reims (new
production by Damiano Michieletto) in Amsterdam.
Future plans: Il Barbiere
di Siviglia at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and Don Giovanni at
the Arena; Agrippina in Antwerp; Le Nozze di Figaro for the AsLiCo
circuit (Como, Cremona, Brescia, Pavia, Bergamo); concerts in Palermo with the
Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo and at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe.
M° Montanari will play all the sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Bach at
the Stresa Festival. 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 will return to the Opéra de Lyon involved in several new projects.
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