CCIMB 2016 JURY MEMBERS
Gérard Abiton is an exceptional classical guitarist and educator who is particularly attentive to the future of young guitarists in many countries (he is cofounder of the training course Rencontres avec l’Orchestre). He has received prize awards in numerous international competitions including the International Guitar Competition of Radio-France (1981) and the International Competition of Musical Execution in Geneva, Switzerland (1981). He was also awarded the Musicians Artists’ Association Price of Geneva for his remarkable interpretation of Quatre pieces brèves by composer Frank Martin. Gérard Abiton has played and given master-classes in more than 40 countries. His recordings include transcriptions of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, the complete oeuvre of Manuel Maria Ponce and Joaquin Turina, and works by other composers of the first half of the 20th century like Federico Mompou, Federico Moreno Torroba, and Joaquín Rodrigo. Currently, he is Professor at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and the Pôle Supérieur Paris-Bolougne.
Marco Vinicio Carnicelli, winner of a good number of national and international awards, has given public performances in various cities in Italy and abroad both as soloist and in chamber ensembles, receiving excellent reviews. After his graduation from the Conservatory of Bari, he continued his musical studies with the great Venuzuelan guitarist Alirio Diaz and the orchestra conductor M° Sergiu Celibidache. He premiered the “Guitar Concert” by the English composer Lennox Berkeley in Italy in 2009 and in Mexico in 2010, with Nicola Giuliani conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Toluca, and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato. At the cciMB 2016, on January 16th, Marco Vinicio Carnicelli will perform music from the Italian composers Mauro Giuliani, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Daniela Nasti. Currently he holds a Chair of Guitar at the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory of Bari.
Alberto Martelli,studied composition, choral music and orchestra conducting at the G. B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna with masters Paolo Renosto, Aldo Clementi, Tito Gotti and Bianca Furgeri. He attended international orchestra conducting courses and seminars in phenomenology of music by Sergiu Celibidache and was assistant to Eliahu Inbal and Hubert Soudant. He has conducted many orchestras in Italy and abroad performing in prestigious halls and festivals (Rome Auditorium Parco della Musica, Gasteig München, Festival de Haute Savoie, and Festivals of Passau, Saõ Paulo and Buenos Aires). He has conducted and recorded world premieres of contemporary composers, such as the ballet Sprint by Giorgio Gaslini nominated best contemporary ballet for 2000. He also regularly performs Italian opera of the eighteenth and nineteenth century in Italian and European theaters. Alberto Martelli is Artistic Director of the musical association Conoscere la musica and Professor of Orchestra Conducting at the A. Boito Conservatory of Parma.
Stephan Schmidt, after his studies with Luis Martin-Diego, Alberto Ponce and Manuel Barrueco, became interested in the composer Maurice Ohana, in particular his music for the ten-string guitar. The complete recordings of Ohana’s music for solo guitar earned him several international awards. Well known for his performances of masterpieces by J.S. Bach and contemporary composers, such as Helmut Lachenmann and Brian Ferneyhough, his repertoire also includes collaborations with musicians of various styles and backgrounds, like Pedro Bacan (flamenco guitar), Fred Frith (electric guitar), Ivan Monighetti (Cello), Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord), Juliane Banse (voice), Heinz Holliger (Oboe), Mats Scheidegger (guitar), David Moss (voice-performance) and many others. In 2013 he performed an new guitar concerto written for him by the composer Chaya Czernowin at the Lucerne Festival, Switzerland. At the cciMB2016, on January 16th, Stephan Schmidt will perform music from Swiss composers Frank Martin and Jacques Wildberger. Since 2012, Stephan Schmidt is director of the Musik Akademie Basel.
David Tanenbaum is recognized today as one of the most eloquent proponents of the contemporary guitar repertoire. Among the many works composed for him are Hans Werner Henze's guitar concerto: An eine Äolsharfe, which he performed throughout Europe and recorded with the composer conducting. David Tanenbaum can be heard on more than thirty recordings on EMI, New Albion, Naxos and other labels. His Nonesuch recording as soloist in John Adam's Naive and Sentimental Music with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic was nominated for a 2002 Grammy as “Best New Composition.” A charismatic educator, he holds the chair of the Guitar Department of the Conservatory of San Francisco, USA.
Walter Zanetti,graduated from the Conservatory of Bologna, obtained a Master degree as concert performer from the Ecole Normale de Musique A. Cortot in Paris. An excellent performer and winner of some of the most important international competitions for classic guitar, he is known as an experimenter and improviser who explores the combination of classical, electrical and ethnic sounds. The eclecticism of Zanetti’s artistic work is illustrated by his CD Cantos Yoruba de Cuba, dedicated to afro-cuban music for solo guitar inspired by the Sacred Rhythms of Cuban Santería, the concert-installation Boîte à Musique and his collaboration with the composer and violinist Eyvind Kang. His latest CD, dedicated to original lute works by Johann Sebastian Bach, was recorded after a study period of baroque performance practice with Norwegian lutenist and theorbist Rolf Lisveland. Walter Zanetti is currently Professor of guitar at the G. B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna.
