Bonfils Minervino Duo
The program for this concert covers some of the transcripts of the most famous Italian opera overtures.
Gioacchino Rossini
Ouverture from “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”
Domenico Cimarosa
Ouverture from “Il Matrimonio Segreto”
Gioacchino Rossini Fantasy on “Il Tancredi” Ouverture from “La Cenerentola”
Massimo de Bonfils
Professor at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he graduated both in Violin and Viola. Winner of first prizes at contests of the S. Cecilia National Academy Orchestra of Rome, the F.J. Haydn Symphony Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, the Opera House of Rome and the Rome Festival Orchestra of New York, at the age of twenty he is already a conservatory professor and at thirty-one he becomes, in Alexandria and Novara, the youngest conservatory director in Italy. He has participated in tours with the Orchestra of the Petruzzelli Theatre in Europe, Brazil and the USA. He has performed as soloist with Orchestras of three continents and is invited to be part of numerous juries of prestigious International Awards.
He has had concerts and radio-TV recordings in more than sixty countries in Europe, America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. Moreover, he has directed Chamber Orchestras in Italian Festivals and abroad (Burgos
– Spain 1986, Carthage – Tunisia 1999, Santa Cruz – Bolivia 2004).
Luca Minervino graduated in classical guitar at the “N. Piccinni”
Conservatory in Bari under the guidance of the Maestro Sante Tursi and has attended various master classes given by F. Cucchi, E. Isaac, M. Mela, L.
Micheli and J. Lorenzo. He has quickly established himself in various national and international competitions. He has played in the first edition of the World Bach Festival (Palazzo Vecchio – Florence), at Teatro del Sale (Florence), at the Music Festival of Nations (Teatro Marcello – Rome), in Cremona on the occasion of the Mondomusica Festival and in Fucecchio (Florence). In addition, he has performed in New York at the Bronxville Women’s Club and also in St. Petersburg at the Italian Institute of Cultural Heritage.