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Manuel Piemontese - bandoneon

Manuel Piemontese was born in Argentina and attended the Instituto Superior de Mùsica in Santa Fè and, later, the national Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, studying clarinet and piano.
At the age of seventeen he wins first prize in the "Jovenes Consertitas Argentinos" award event, as well as the first prize in the "Solistas del Mozarteum" competition. He is subsequently hired as first clarinet in the Chamber Orchestra of Santa Fè.
He also studies at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, following Giuseppe Garvarino's clarinet courses. At the same time, he studies at the Accademia Internazionale Superiore di Musica in Biella with Anthony Pay and - in Riva del Garda - with Karl Leister.
He enters the Conservatory of Music M.Ravel in Paris, and he attends advanced courses of Choir and Orchestra Conduction at Centre d'Art Poliphonique de Paris-Ile de France.
Following a unanimous decision of all the members of Ensemble International de Paris, in 1989 he becomes the orchestra's conductor, subsequently touring the most prestigious theaters in France.
The next year he attends a Master Class course of orchestra conduction by B.Weil, and he meets with M.o Carlo Maria Giulini several times.
He was Musical and Artistic Director of the State Philarmonic Orchestra of Moldavia, thus becoming the first western conductor to be chosen to direct an orchestra from the ex-USSR.
He was also second conductor of the Opera Theater Orchestra of Moldavia and Musical and Artistic Director of Orchestra da Camera della Lombardia and of Orchestra Sinfonica "Guido Cantelli" of Milano and Artistic Director of Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste. He is now the main guest conductor of "Archi della Scala" .
He also cooperated as a conductor with the National Orchestra of Santiago do Cile, Radio 1 Orchestra of Moscow, National Orchestra of Sao Paolo (Brazil), Symphonic Orchestra of Santa Fè (Argentina), St. Petersburg Capella Orchestra (Russia), Radio Orchestra of Tirana, Radio Orchestra of Bucarest, National Opera of Bucarest, Opera Theater of Lima (Peru), Symphonic Orchestra of Udine, Le Sinfonietta de Paris, Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra (Israel), Philarmonic Orchestra of Regensburg (Germany), Archi della Scala, Orchestra da Camera della Lombardia, Camerata Strumentale Italiana (Trieste), Symphonic Orchestra of Tokyo, Philarmonic Orchestra of Greesboro (USA), Orchestra Sinfonica "Guido Cantelli" of Milano, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milano.
He has performed both as a conductor and as a performer in Germany, Austria, Italy, Luxemburg, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Romania, ex-URRS countries, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Albania and Cile.
He's been in contact with Argentina's music folklore since he was very young, and he now finds inspiration to compose his own music in his love for his country's traditional music.
He has written a remake of Carmen by Bizet in the style of tango and South American music.
He recorded Strutture and Sinfonia no.7 by Bruno Bettinelli for ANTES CONCERTO; a series of clarinet CDs for the label AGORA', which include concerts by Stamitz, Backofen, Devienne, Telemann, Tausch, Hoffmeister, Krommer, and Mendelssohn; a CD for RICORDI with music by Giacomo Mazzoni: Dieci Versi di Emily Dickinson, and Ode e Scene per il Doktor Faustus.
Conducting Archi della Scala, he recorded the Piano Concert K271 by Mozart and the Cello Concert no.2 by Haydin, with First Cello of Teatro alla Scala Sandro Laffarini. He also recorded Cavalleria Rusticana and Il Mistero by Domenico Monleone with the Opera Theater Orchestra of Tirana, for the label MYTO RECORDS.


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