Arianna Lanci - Movimento Classical

Arianna Lanci

The artist

Born in Rimini, Arianna graduated with honours in philosophy at the University of Bologna, earning her degree in opera singing in 2008 at the Conservatorio G. Rossini in Pesaro, where she studied under Evghenia Dundekova. She went on to perfect her baroque vocal technique with Roberta Invernizzi. She attended master-classes with major international performers of ancient, renaissance and baroque repertoire including Gloria Banditelli, Jill Feldman, Monica Bacelli, Rinaldo Alessandrini, also perfecting her Bel Canto technique with Sherman Lowe and Fernando Cordeiro Opa.In February 2014 she obtained a Level II Diploma in Renaissance and Baroque singing with full marks and honors from the Conservatorio “A. Pedrollo” in Vicenza under the guidance of Patrizia Vaccari, winning the Award for the Best Student in the “Fatima III Prize” at the 6th Competition of Ancient Music. Selected as a finalist in many competitions including the “International Competition of Sacred Music” in Rome 2009, the “Francesco Provenzale Competition of Baroque Singing” 2009 and the “City of Bologna International Opera Singing Competition” 2011, she won first prize at the “1st International Competition of Baroque Singing La musica dei Papi” in Pienza in 2011. She has performed in prestigious theaters and concert halls, in Italian and international festivals (Teatro Rossini Pesaro, Teatro Comunale and Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Teatro Accademico Castelfranco Veneto, Teatro della Fortuna Fano, Auditorium Pollini Padua, Auditorium San Fedele and Sala Verdi Milan, Palazzo Chigi Saracini Siena, Piazza Verdi Rai Radio 3, Roma Festival Barocco, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Festival Antiqua Bolzano, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana Rimini, Festival di Musica Antica Magnano, Festival de Musique Baroque du Jura Arbois, Istituto Italiano di Cultura San Francisco) singing as a soloist and in vocal ensembles under the direction of numerous conductors, including Claudio Astronio, Alfredo Bernardini, Alberto Busettini, Paolo Faldi, Michele Gasbarro, Marco Mencoboni, Riccardo Muti and Christopher Stembridge. On stage she has starred in the roles of Proserpina and Speranza in Monteverdi’s “ Orfeo”, Dido in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas”, Phalti in Gazzaniga’s “Susanna”, Ino in Handel’s “Semele” and Nice in Vivaldi’s “Serenata a tre”. She collaborates with several vocal and instrumental groups specializing in both ancient and contemporary repertoire, among which Bologna Chamber Choir, the Melodi Cantores Ensemble, Vox Altera Ensemble, Cappella Artemisia, Festina Lente Ensemble, Cantar Lontano Ensemble and the Laus Concentus Ensemble. She has also dedicated herself to the music of oral tradition, focusing on Sephardic Jewish repertoire. In 2004 she founded the Ananke project, with which she took part in important musical events in Italy, Austria, France and Israel. She currently continues to devote herself to her Sephardic repertoire within the Aman Sepharad project, with which she frequently performs concerts in Europe and the United States.She collaborates with pianists Stefania Redaelli and Mario Totaro on contemporary chamber music programs: performing the Berio’s Folk Songs and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and taking part in debut performances of contemporary vocal compositions. She recently extended her musical interest to the Middle Ages, not only in terms of vocality, but also by devoting herself to the study of ancient keyboards, in particular clavisimbalum, an instrument of which she has a philological copy created by Graziano Bandini, based on the Arnaut de Zwolle treatise of 1440. Active in education, she teaches a singing course at the Centro Studi Musica Antica in Gradara. She directs the Vocal Ensemble Canòpea, a choral group of twenty members with their permanent seat at Scolca Abbey in Rimini, dedicated to the recital of medieval and Renaissance music with incursions into contemporary repertoire. Since 2018 she has taught Renaissance and Baroque singing at a specialized summer course, “Corso Estivo di Perfezionamento Marco Allegri”, in Castrocaro Terme, in collaboration with harpsichordist Chiara Cattani.