Orchestra Mozart

The Orchestra Mozart Bologna was founded in 2004 on the initiative of Carlo Maria Badini and Fabio Roversi Monaco - as part of the Regia Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. Claudio Abbado served as artistic director of the orchestra. Early 2014 had the sound body - due to the serious illness Abbado - " provisionally " to cease its activities, although the orchestra just before - was nominated for the Grammy Award - for his recording of Schumann's Second.

Founded with the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, assembled this ensemble young musicians from all over Europe, as well as soloists and section leaders from international orchestras - like the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Florence. The Orchestra Mozart already guested on all major platforms in Italy, at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival, in the Salle Pleyel in Paris and the Musikverein in Vienna. In October 2011, the ensemble opened at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Cultural Days of the European Central Bank.

In addition to his concert career, the Orchestra Mozart is also socially involved, such as in music therapy project " Tamino " or Project " Papageno " brings the music in prisons. At the center of the orchestra's discography is naturally Mozart - with recordings of the last symphonies, the concertos for wind instruments, the violin concertos with Giuliano Carmignola and the Piano Concerto No. 20 and No. 27 Maria João Pires with. Considerable media coverage also found three Pergolesi CDs with rarely performed works, as well as recordings of the violin concertos of Beethoven and mountain with Isabelle Faust and Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

Since 2010, Diego Matheuz acts as principal guest conductor of the orchestra. Among the soloists who have performed with the orchestra, further include Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Hélène Grimaud, Radu Lupu, Wang Yujia, Mario Brunello, Natalia Gutman and singers like Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo, Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann.

Awards

  • Prize of the German Record Critics
  • Premio Abbiati
  • 2014 nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance

Website

  • Orchestra Mozart, accessed on June 18, 2013

Evidence

  • Orchestra ( Italy)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Bologna
Symphony No. 2 (Schumann) 56th Annual Grammy Awards
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