Alistair Sorley

accompaniment of strings/ realization of basso continuo in baroque music

 

He was born in Salisbury, England. At the age of 16, he was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he attained diplomas in violin and piano, and won a prize for piano accompaniment. He was awarded a prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Caltanissetta, Sicily. At the Istituto Musicale Bellini of Catania, he attained, with honors, an advanced Harpsichord diploma. He has worked in Great Britain both as piano accompanist and violinist, in illustrious orchestras, theatres and festivals namely the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the English National Opera North and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and, in Italy, the Orchestra Toscanini of Parma, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania, where he currently works. As piano accompanist, harpsichordist and violinist, he has collaborated with important artists like Jurgen Hess, Jorge Bolet, Ruggiero Ricci, Sergey Krylov, Natalia Korsakova, Ilya Konovalov, Boris Belkin, Uto Ughi, Pavel Berman, Dimitra Theodossiou, Josè Cura, Temirkanov, Oren, Lombard, David, Ranzani, Kuhn ,Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, Julian Lloyd Webber, Misha Maisky, Mario Brunello, Giovanni Sollima, Evelyn Glennie. He has also participated in the Edinburgh Festival, the BBC Promenade Festival, 'Festival Internazionale del Val di Noto- Magie Barocche' (in which he played also with the 'Kiev Baroque Consort') and 'Il Bellini nel Barocco', organized, in Catania by Teatro Massimo Bellini, as well as in tours of Russia, Romania, China, Japan. He played pianoforte for the dance company Zappala, of Catania, in performances in Abruzzo and in Rio de Janeiro. He was official piano accompanist for important competitions and masterclasses: The  Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition, Rachmaninov Masterclass for pianoforte and the International Competition "Premio Bellini" of Catania.


Vito Imperato

violin

 

Born in Catania, he attained his diploma at the Istituto Musicale V. Bellini of his native city guided by Maestro Giacomo Caruso, then he took advanced studies in Palermo with Piero Marabete, in Rome with Angelo Stefanato and Arrigo Pelliccia and then, at the "Accademia Chigiana" of Siena and "Le Conservatoire de Musique" of Geneva with Henryk Szeryng. He followed advanced studies in the chamber music repertoire with Marie Chantal De Buchy. In 1984, he was winner at the competitions of the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice of Venice and of the Orchestra of the Opera of Rome as well as, in the following year, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, where he was assistant concertmaster. Having won the International Competitions for Leader at the Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania in 1987, and at the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome in 1989, he has held this leadership role successively with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Mediterranean Symphony Orchestra (in Italy and abroad), the Cameristi della Scala of Milan and the Tonhalle Symphony Orchestra of Zurich. As a soloist, he has performed with, besides the orchestra of his native city, the Solisti Aquilani at Terni, the Orchestra Cantelli in the Sala Verdi in Milan, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra. He has won numerous violinistic reviews and has to his credit many recordings with RAI broadcasting. He has fulfilled an intense chamber music activity both with the Nuova Orchestra da Camera of Catania and with the most varied instrumental formations, collaborating with soloists of renowned fame like:- Rocco Filippini, Alirio Diaz, Sergej girshenko, Andras Adorjan, Antony Pay, AIman Mussakhajayeva, Boris Petrushanshj, Mikhail Kugel, Igor Oistrakh, in Italy, France, Switerland, Spain, Austria, Germany, Turkey and China. He is currently the leader of the orchestra of Teatro Massimo V. Bellini, Catania, and is violin professor at the Istituto Musicale V. Bellini of Catania. He holds advanced summer seminars in different parts of Italy. In 2013 he was awarded the Prestigious prize "Domenico Danzuso" reserved, every year, for eminent world figures of music and prose. He plays on a "Matteo Goffriller" violin of 1732.            

Giulio Plotino

violin

 

Born in Genoa, Giulio Plotino began to study the violin with Joseph Levin. After earning a degree at the conservatory of his city, he graduated from the Hogeschool voor de kusten in Utrecht in the class of Philipp Hirschhorn. He then furthered his studies under the guidance of Salvatore Accardo, Boris Belkin, Thomas Zeethmair and members of the Quartetto Italiano, Amadeus Quartet and Alban Berg Quartet. An award winner at Genoa's “Premio Paganini” Competition, he won the “Premio Città di Vittorio Veneto” Competition.
For 15 years he was Concertmaster in orchestras such as, among the others, the London Phiharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Barcelona Sym
phony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, playing under the baton of Lorin Mazel, George Pretre, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, John Elliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding, Myun Wung Chung, Vladimir Jurowsky, Neville, Marriner, Dimitri Kitajenko etc...In 2018 he recorded for Dynamic a production dedicated to Paganini and his instruments, the violin, the guitar and the cello belonged to Paganini playing with Clemens Hagen and Matteo Mela.Cit.The Strad: “Most of us would think long before attempting the solo Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento even on a modern setup, so hats off to Giulio Plotino who negotiates even the most fiendish intricacies on Paganini's del Gesù with rare aplomb” With Andrea
Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra he went on a long North America tour that reaped great success with audiences and critics played on period instruments. On the early music scene, he also collaborated with Ottavio Dantone, performing J.S.Bach's 5 th Brandenburg Concerto.
Beetwen 2017/18 he debuted on the podium conducting Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia and a symphony concert at the Teatro lirico di Sassari and as soloist/conductor with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo. He performed at Lehamn Centre in New York, Citè de la Musique and Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Styriarte Festspiele Graz, Centro Cultural de Belém of Lisboa, Melbourne Recital Centre, Yon Siew Toh Hall of Singapore, Teatro Major di Bogotà, Perth Concert Hall, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Unione Musicale di Torino, Istituzione dei concerti La Sapienza di Roma, GOG di Genova, Società del Quartetto di Vicenza and Amici della Musica di Firenze, Padova, Perugia, Palermo etc....Soon to be released by Brilliant Classic, he has record ed Tartini's Concertos on baroque violin with L'Accademia della Rosa, an orchestra which himself founded, playing on period instruments. His performance of the Britten violin concerto, under the baton of Simone Young conducting the West
australian Symphony Orchestra, was recorded by ABC Classsic.
Plotino has mover always cultivated contemporary music, collaboratng with composers such as L. Berio, F. Vacchi, S. Bussotti, S. Sciarrino and G. Benjamin. He recorded the Luciano Berio's Sequenza VIII for Dynamic
which has received favourable reviews from international critics.
He has been a jury member in international competitions such as the Premio Paganini and Rodolfo Lipizer. He teaches at the Conservatory of Genoa and was Visiting Professor at the University of Western Australia and Yon Sie Toh Conservatory of Music of Singapore. Since 2015 he has been Artistic Director of the Campus Musicale Lunigiana.

Luigi De Giorgi

viola

 

From a very early age, he began learning music from his grandfather, Maestro Salvatore Barone. Attaining his Viola diploma at the Conservatorio “V. Bellini” of Palermo, he attended advanced courses held by Maestros Piero Farulli and Carlo Pozzi at the Fiesole School of Music and the National Youth Orchestra of Italy with which he played in concertos in Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Winner of national and international prizes he has performed in numerous concertos, as 1st viola, in prestigious chamber ensembles in Italy, England, Poland, Norway, China and for the principal Italian TV channels R.A.I. and Mediaset. From 1994 he collaborates with the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania, covering the role of 1st Viola in different operatic and symphonic productions and participating in important concert and opera tours in Russia, Japan and China. Furthermore he has collaborated with the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo of Palermo, the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. He can boast of experience with illustrious conductors like, Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Yuri Temirkanov, Michel Plasson, Daniele Gatti, Alain Lombard. He was professor of Viola at the "Istituti Superiori di Studi Musicali" of Catania and of Caltanissetta.

In 2008, he formed the Italian Ensemble. In 2011, on behalf of the Presidential council of the Italian Republic, he received thanks from the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, for the activity promoted by the Italian Ensemble in occasion of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification.


Vadim Pavlov

violoncello/chamber music

 

He was born in St. Petersburg (Russia). He studied at the Conservatoire of his native city in the class of E.Fishman, the teacher of Mischa Maisky, B.Pergamenschikov etc.; he attained his diploma in the class of S.Roldugin, then he was awarded a Doctorate in research at the Pedagogical Institute of Music “Gnessin” as assistant to Maestro V.Berlinsky. He was 1st violoncello of various orchestras like that of the Chamber Theatre of Leningrad, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana of Palermo, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana of Florence, the Orchestra Filarmonica of La Coruna (Spain), the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino etc.. He was winner of many International competitions like “The Prague Spring”, “The Geneva International Music Competition”, “Perugia Classico”, etc.etc.. Currently he is 1st cellist at the Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania. He regularly holds Masterclasses in Italy and abroad. He records for the CD labels la Pentagramma, VideoRadio Classic, Hungaroton.
He is Knight of World Order for musical science; and is the Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival “Le Belliniadi”. In 2014 he was awarded the national prize, for high artistic merit, “Domenico Danzuso”. He is professor at the Conservatoire “F.Cilea ” of Reggio Calabria. He plays on a David Tecchler Cello, of 1700, entrusted to him by the Foundation Pro Canale-ONLUS.     

Davide Galaverna

double bass

 

He attained his diploma in Double Bass at the Conservatorio “A. Boito" of Parma then he advanced his studies further with Maestro F. Petracchi and with W. Guttler. After his studies, he began an orchestral career playing with the following orchestras:- the Orchestra A. Toscanini of Parma, I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia of Rome, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana of Lugano, the Orchestra 'Haydn' of Trento and Bolzano, the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, the Orchestra RAI TV in Milan and Rome, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Orchestra Sinfonica of Sanremo, the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo of Palermo, the Orchestra Sinfonica of Neuchatel.
In the chamber music field, he has performed 1st Double Bass in the Italian Chamber Orchestra, directed by Salvatore Accardo, making tours in Italy and in Europe; furthermore he has played with the prestigious ensemble "I Solisti Veneti", directed by Claudio Scimone, touring all over Europe. He has participated in important cycles of concertos in Germany (Bonn, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munich) with the "Virtuosi Italiani". In 2010, he formed a Duo with the pianist Ketty Teriaca with whom he performs many concerts in Italy. From 2006, he holds advanced courses, in Montedoro (Caltanissetta), and from 2015, at the Accademia di Petralia Sottana. From 1999, he is the 1st Double Bass of the Orchestra  of Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania.