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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; Le Nozze di Figaro in
Como, Cremona and Brescia for OpearLobardia circuit; an all Haydn concert series
for MiTo Festival. Stefano Montanari regularly collaborates and records with
jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Gianluigi Trovesi.
Future plans: Agrippina in
Antwerp; 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; Le Nozze di Figaro in
Pavia and Bergamo for OperaLombardia circuit; concerts in Florence with the
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Turin with the Filarmonica del
Teatro Regio di Torino, in Milan with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali 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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