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. 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 the OperaLombardia circuit; an all
Haydn concert series for MiTo Festival and a series of concerts with the
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan. 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; concerts in Florence with the Maggio Musicale Orchestra
and 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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