Erica Piccotti, cello and Monica Cattarossi, piano perform in duo for Giovani Interpreti Italiani Series
Program:
Giuseppe Martucci, Due romanze op. 72
Ottorino Respighi, Adagio con variazioni
Ferruccio Busoni, Kultaselle – Variazioni su un tema finlandese
Salvatore Sciarrino, Melencolia I
Igor Stravinskij, Suite Italienne
Monica Cattarossi lives in Milan and works in the field of chamber music and accompaniment, as an interpreter, chamber musician and lecturer.
Invited to the most important international festivals, she has performed in prestigious venues collaborating with artists such as Salvatore Accardo, Julius Berger, Rocco Filippini, Antonio Meneses, Danilo Rossi, Dora Schwarzberg, among others. With the renowned cellist Enrico Dindo she has established a solid ten-year artistic collaboration, and together they recorded the work of Astor Piazzolla for cello and piano.
With the young, talented cellist Erica Piccotti she recently performed at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso; for many years she has played all over Italy in concerts organized by the “Gioventù Musicale d’Italia” association. As a pianist of the Orchestra Sinfonica “G. Verdi”of Milan she has recorded “The Thousand and One Nights” by Victor De Sabata for the Universal label, playing with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Wayne Marshall and Zhang Xian, among others.
She holds the piano accompaniment chair of the “Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana” University of Lugano, and of the chamber music chair at the Conservatory “G. Cantelli” of Novara, and held master classes at the Sapporo Music University, the Seoul Chamber Orchestra, the Gdańsk Music Academy.
Erica Piccotti, born in Rome in 1999, graduated in cello at the age of 14 with honors, and Honorable Mention, at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome under the guidance of Francesco Storino. She continued her studies with Antonio Meneses at the Hochschule der Kunste in Bern and the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona. Since September 2017 she attends the Master of Music at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson.
Winner of first prizes in national and international competitions, her debut took place at age of 13 on the occasion of the 2012 Christmas Concert at the Italian House of Representatives in which she played in duo with Mario Brunello for the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Since then she has performed in many prestigious festivals. In April 2018 she released her first CD for the record company Warner Classics in duo with the pianist Itamar Golan.
On March 8, 2013, the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano conferred her the “Alfiere della Repubblica” Certificate of Honor for the outstanding musical achievements attained at a very young age.
She plays a cello Ruggeri (Cremona, 1692) kindly granted by the Micheli Foundation of Milan.
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