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Carlotta Maestrini - Giovanni Sollima - Clarissa Bevilacqua
Beethoven Soad Sollima RòS
Short Trio Stories
Carlotta Maestrini - Giovanni Sollima - Clarissa Bevilacqua
Beethoven Soad Sollima RòS
Short Trio Stories
The album
It all began almost by chance in April 2023 with the feeling - from the very first notes - that such a beautiful experience would drive us to want to continue.The idea of a repertoire with strongly contrasting juxtapositions led as Beethoven's Trio Op.1 No. 1 young and full of positive energy, followed by a peice by S.O.A.D. (System od a Down), exponents of "nu metal" and by the transcendent and intense Ara Bàtur by Sigur Ròs, concluding with my Short Trio Stories which traverses multiple figures, stories and places; Leonardo da Vinci with his musical puzzles , to the "secret" Beethoven collected in the Biamonti Catalogue, of "gypsy" culture to a "recontextualized" Domenico Scarlatti.
The artist
Carlotta Maestrini
Carlotta Maestrini began studying the piano at the age of 5 with V. Adamo at the Conservatory of Palermo where, since 2015, she attends the pre-academic course under the guidance of D. Sollima. First Prize at the "A. Trombone" Competition in 2015, in December of the same year she performed at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania as the absolute winner of the international competition "G. Campochiaro". In 2016 she won the Second Prize at the Steinway Competition in Verona and made her debut at the Teatro Paisiello in Lecce with the Conservatory Orchestra conducted by F. Libetta. She performed in the United States in 2016 with the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra conducted by T. Simoncic, and in 2019 for the Key Biscayne Piano Festival and the Miami International Piano Festival, where she debuted with her first recital. Since 2017 she attends the Special Piano Course held by A. Lucchesini at the School of Music of Fiesole.
The artist
Giovanni Sollima
Is an internationally renowned cellist and Italian composer whose works are among the most performed in the world. He has collaborated with Riccardo Muti, Yo-Yo Ma, Ivan Fischer, Viktoria Mullova, Ruggero Raimondi, Mario Brunello, Kathryn Stott, Giuseppe Andaloro, Toni Florio, Yuri Bashmet, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Giovanni Antonini, Ottavio Dantone, Patti Smith, Stefano Bollani, Paolo Fresu, Antonio Albanese and with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Liverpool Philharmonic (Artist in Residence 2015), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Moscow Soloists, Berlin Konzerthausorchester, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Il Giardino armonico, Cappella Neapolitana, Accademia Bizantina, Holland Baroque Society, Budapest Festival Orchestra.
He composed music for Peter Greenaway, John Turturro, Bob Wilson, Carlos Saura, Marco Tullio Giordana, Peter Stein, Lasse Gjertsen, Anatoly Vasiliev, Karole Armitage and Carolyn Carlson. He has performed at the Alice Tully Hall, Knitting Factory, Carnegie Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Salle Gaveau (Paris), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Opera House (Sydney), Suntory Hall (Tokyo). Since 2010 he teaches at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, where he is awarded the title of Academic. In 2012, together with Enrico Melozzi, he founded the 100 Cellos. In 2015 he composed the sound logo of Expo in Milan and inaugurated the new museum space of the Pietà Rondanini, by Michelangelo. Giovanni explores different genres using ancient, oriental, electric and inventive instruments, playing in the Sahara desert, underwater and with an ice cello. His discography began in 1998 with a CD produced by Philip Glass for Point Music, followed by eleven albums for Sony, Egea and Decca. He brought to light the eighteenth-century musician, Giovanni Battista Costanzi, of whom he recorded the Sonatas and Symphonies for cello and basso continuo for the Glossa record label. In October 2018 he received the Anner Bijlsma Award at the Cello Biennale in Amsterdam.
He plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1679)
The artist
Clarissa Bevilacqua
Violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua is knavvn to enchant audiences with her dazzling technical skills and deepty inspiring musicality. Her debut album Dream Catcher gained international recognition after being recommended by Gram ophone Magazine and The Strad, which hailed her playing as "luminously
elevated"and "elegant and nimble".
She debuted at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago in front oftenthousand people when she was nineyears old, and has since performed solo recitals and concerto engagements at venues throughout North
America, Europe and Asia. As a soloist, Clarissa has performed with OrchestrePhilarmonique de Monte Carlo, BBC National OrchestraofWales, Cape Symphony, Thailand Philharmonie Orchestra, Filarm onica de Sibiu, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento,
Orchestra di Padovaedel Veneto, EI Sistema Orchestra, and at the opening concert ofthe Mozartwoche
2023 withthe Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
Clarissa also performs regulary in a trio with cellist Giovanni Sollima and pianist Carlotta Maestrini. The trio recentty recorded the album Short TrioStories with repertoire that spansfrom classical t o rock
Her debut album was released by Nim bus Reco rdsfeaturing Augusta Read Thomas com plete worksfor solo violin, and Violin Concerto #3: 'Juggler in Paradise' with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales directed byconductor Vimbayi Kaziboni.
Clarissa is the Artistic Director of the DYNAMIKfest, a yearly classical contemporary chamber music festival in the heart of Salzurg, Austria. Her aim is to showcase dynamic concerts that feature commissioned compositions, premiere programs alongside classical masterpieces, performed by outstanding international musicians under 30.
In 2024, Clarissa was selected as a laureate of the prestigious Fondation Gautier Capui:;on. The previous year, she was selected to join the ClasseekAmbassador Program and their artist roster, as a winner of the open application competition. Winner ofseveral international violin competitions, she was awarded First Prize, Audience Award and Special Bärenreiter Award at th e International Mozart Competition Salzburg. Sh e was alsoawarded the Grand Prize at th e Cape Sym phony InternationaIViolin Concerto Com petition, and second place at th e Monte-Carlo Music Master.
Passionate about historic violins, at age fourteen she was selected as th e youngest violinist to perform regulartywith the pr ecious Stradivaricollection ofthe Violin Mu seum in Cremona.
An avid and enthu siastic learner, Clarissa received her Bachelor of Mu sic at age sixteen, g raduating summa cum laude. She completed her Master of Mu sic in Violin Performance at the Mozart eum University Salzburg with Pierre Am oyal, and a Master ofViolin Solo Performa nce at the Hochschul e für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin with Antje Weithaas.