Artists
Duo Baldo

Duo Baldo made their debut with italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in 2004. In February 2006, Duo Baldo won first prize at the National Short Theater Competition in Florence. After winning first prize at the 2009 Musicomicontest, they performed at the opening of the 2010 Salzburg Festival. Other engagements include the Chamber Music Society of Trieste, as well as appearances in Shanghai, Tokyo, Brescia, Baltimore,Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Livorno, Lucca, Lugano (Switzerland), Mexico City, Paunat (France) and Prato.
In September 2011, Duo Baldo performed a gala concert on Giacomo Puccini’s recently-restored Steinway piano with soprano Maria Luigia Borsi at the Teatro Giglio in Lucca.
Violinist Brad Repp has appeared as violin soloist with José Carreras. He performs on a 1736 Testore violin. Aldo Gentileschi performs on whatever piano he can find.
Photo Credit Richard Crean
Maria Luigia Borsi - Soprano

Ms. Borsi has performed at the Salzburg Festival (Otello), Zurich Opernhaus (La traviata), Berlin Philharmonie (Suor Angelica), Deutsche Oper Berlin (La bohème), Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona (La bohème), New National Theatre of Tokyo (Così fan tutte and Otello), Arena di Verona (Carmen), Royal Danish Opera (Madama Butterfy), Les Chorégies d’Orange (Turandot), Pittsburgh Opera (Madama Butterfy), Novaya Opera of Moscow (Il trovatore), and with the London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Rotterdam Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Tokyo Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In 2010, Ms. Borsi made her recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall.
She has collaborated with illustrious conductors Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Myung-Whun Chung, Michel Plasson, Marco Armiliato, Yannick Nézet- Séguin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Pablo Heras-Casado, Carlo Rizzi, Maurizio Benini and eminent stage directors Franco Zefrelli, Hugo De Ana, Damiano Michieletto, Stephen Langridge, Graham Vick, Jürgen Flimm, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Mario Martone, Daniele Abbado, Giancarlo del Monaco e Robert Carsen.
A highlight of her recent engagements is the opening concert of EXPO in Milan, where she shared the stage with the orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, pianist Lang Lang, soprano Diana Damrau, tenor Francesco Meli and baritone Simone Piazzola.
Other highlights include Otello in Oviedo, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Florence and Moscow, and a concert version of Tosca with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Future appearances include Otello with the New Zealand Opera, La bohème at the Royal Danish Opera and Le nozze di Figaro at the Goteborg Opera, to name a few.
Ms. Borsi’s discography includes a live recording of Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Zubin Mehta (Helicon), a live recording DVD of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Lorin Maazel (Kultur), Puccini’s Turandot (Fenice), Bizet’s Carmen with Franco Zefrelli, Peter von Winter’s Maometto II (Marco Polo) and her first solo album “Italian Soprano Arias” with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yves Abel (Naxos).
Born in Sora (Italy), she studied with Antonietta Stella, Lucia Stanescu, Claudio Desderi, and Renata Scotto.
Photo Credit Richard Crean
José Carreras

José Carreras has collaborated with the most renowned orchestra conductors including Herbert von Karajan (an artistic and personal relationship which lasted over twelve years and included performances in Salzburg, Berlin and Vienna), Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Colin Davis, Giuseppe Sinopoli, James Levine, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Metha, and with pre-eminent stage directors such as: Franco Zeffirelli, Jean Pierre Ponnelle, Giorgio Strehler, Luigi Comencini and Harold Prince.
His repertoire includes over sixty operas, of which the following stand out: Andrea Chenier, La Bohème, Tosca, Werther, Don Carlo, Carmen, La Forza del Destino, I Pagliacci, L’Elisir d’Amore and Un Ballo in Maschera. José Carreras has performed the leading role in several operatic films for Television, Cinema and Video.Together with his opera activities, he has given frequent recitals in the world’s most famous halls. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Avery Fisher Hall of New York; the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican and the Royal Albert Hall in London; the Salle Pleyel in Paris, at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus of Vienna, the Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall and the NHK Hall in Tokyo, the Grosses Festspielhaus of Salzburg, the Philarmonie and the Hercules Saal of Munich, the Palau de la Música of Barcelona, the Teatro Real of Madrid and the Accademia Santa Cecilia of Rome. His wide concert repertoire includes over 600 titles of the most diverse styles ranging from the baroque to contemporary music.
Dreamers Circus

Six months later, Rune played his début concert to mark the termination of his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Programmed to play Mozart’s 5th Violin Concerto with the Copenhagen Phil, everybody was surprised to see Ale and Nikolaj walk onto the stage to play the cadenza in the third movement. The three of them played a folky interpretation of the concerto and when the orchestra joined them at the end of the cadenza, the crowd went wild. Dreamers’ Circus was born and this was to be their first steps on what would turn out to be a global, musical journey. The concert was filmed and can be viewed here. In 2010 Dreamers’ Circus published an EP, recorded in Stockholm and produced by the guitarist from Väsen, Roger Tallroth. Both he and the amazing Sofia Karlsson (vocals and tin whistle) appeared on the EP about which Nils Thorlund, music critic at Rootszone, wrote in his review: ”This new, instrumental trio creates beautiful, painful, swinging tunes that catch the ear without being banal. To what may this not lead?” And as it turned out this led to a lot more. The trio played concerts and travelled the world with their music. In 2011 they were invited to play a string of concerts with the Copenhagen Phil, performing as soloists in front of the orchestra. The concerts were named “60 Minutes of Dreams”, and, as the title indicates, consisted of 60 minutes of music by Dreamers’ Circus. During the course of this project, the trio met rock musician, writer and critic, Kristian Leth; a meeting that would prove important for the further development of Dreamers’ Circus. Apart from a busy concert schedule as a trio, several collaborations with other artists and ensembles were launched. The constellation “Dreamers’ Circus & The Danish String Quartet” was one of them and has led to many concerts in Denmark and Germany. Dreamers’ Circus has also collaborated and performed with artists as diverse as Indian bansuri wizard Rishab Prasanna, Danish Chamber Players and The William Blakes. “Kristian Leth & Dreamers’ Circus” came into being due to a mutual love of and fascination with each other’s music. The group played their first short concert at the SPOT Festival in Aarhus in 2013, but the first full length concert was at the Tønder Festival 2013 where a fifth member joined the quartet thus making it a quintet by the name “Kristian Leth & Dreamers’ Circus feat. Gustaf Ljunggren”. In June 2013 Dreamers’ Circus published their first full length album, “A Little Symphony”, which contains 60 minutes of music, instrumental acrobatics and groovy guest performances by The Danish String Quartet, The European Travelling Brass Carnival and Rishab Prasanna. This album received a lot of positive attention and put Dreamers’ Circus on the musical map. “World class folk music”, “Equilibristic euphony and acrobatics of the highest order”, “Probably one of the best albums to come out of Denmark for a long time”, were some of the praise the critics showered the three circus boys with. At the Danish Music Awards Folk 2013, Dreamers’ Circus was nominated as “Talent of the Year”, “Album of the Year”, Ale as “Artist of the Year”, and both Nikolaj and Ale as “Composer of the Year”. The group was awarded with the three first mentioned awards. In October 2013 Rune, Ale and Nikolaj traveled to Sydney to perform in one of the finest and most iconic concert halls in the world, The Sydney Opera House, where Rune received The Crown Prince Couple’s Rising Star Award. “[…] they were impressed by his precise yet sensitive playing of the violin, superior technology and melodiousness. Few musicians in the classical world have made a greater impact of mixing classical music with Danish folk.” And what does the future hold?
– More concerts, travels, projects and musical encounters, more notes, more music …
David Giménez

Born in Barcelona, David Giménez studied piano and composition at the Conservatori del Liceu in his hometown. Later on, he specialized in conducting at the Hochschulefür-Musik in Vienna with Karl Österreicher and at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Sir Colin Davis. Since making his debut with the Hannover NDR Orchestra in 1994, he has appeared worldwide, leading the most prominent orchestras and soloists in venues like the Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Pleyel, Vienna Konzerthaus, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. During his career, David Giménez has conducted orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Philharmonia, Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris and Filarmonica della Scala. He has also appeared with soloists such as Yoyo Ma and Antonio Meneses. He is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Bucarest Philharmonic Orchestra and Laureate Conductor of the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès in Barcelona. Opera is an important part of Maestro Giménez’s performance schedule. He has performed a wide operatic repertoire at Teatro alla Scala, Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Zurich Opera, Berlin Deutsche Oper, Théâtre du Champs Elysées, Washington Opera, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Madrid’s Teatro Real and Sydney Opera House. With an exceptional understanding of voice, David Giménez collaborates regularly with singers such as José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Kiri Te Kanawa, Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu or Bryn Terfel. Recently David Giménez has appeared, among other places, on the podiums of the Munich Symphony, Brucknerhaus Linz Symphony, Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Czech National Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic and China National Opera House Orchestra. In his home country, Maestro Giménez conducted orchestras like Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Real Filarmonia and Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao. In the operatic field, he opened the 2014/15 season of the Barcelona Opera House (Gran Teatre del Liceu) with a series of tribute concerts to Giuseppe Verdi; then he was the musical director for the new opera El Juez, composed by Christian Kolonovits, which had its world première in Bilbao and the Erl Festival in Austria. Maestro Giménez also made his debut at the new Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg with this opera. He also joined José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Diana Damrau for different tours in Europe, Asia and South America. In addition, Maestro Giménez has regularly been on the jury of the Reina Sofia competition for composition in Madrid. During the present season David Giménez will appear, among other things, on podiums with the Royal Philharmonic, Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien, Aalborg Symphony, Sofia Philharmonic, Moscow City State Symphony – Russian Philharmonic and Bucharest Philharmonic. Important highlights will also include Maestro Giménez’s debut at Theater an der Wien with El Juez and several world wide concerts for the José Carreras Farewell Tour. Maestro David Giménez’s recordings include works for Decca, BMG Classics, Koch- Schwann, Erato and Discmedi.
Katherine Jenkins

Born in South Wales, Katherine learned to sing as a chorister of St. David’s Church choir, Neath. Her love of music was well nurtured in the Welsh Valleys, where she had the opportunity to join choral groups, perform with Welsh Male Voice Choirs as well as participate in Eisteddfods & other musical events. She has always accredited her down to earth nature with her Welsh roots & her amazing family who she lovingly calls ‘The Taffia’. Sadly, Katherine’s father Selwyn passed away from cancer when she was just 15 and since then his memory has been a driving force in her life V every album, every award has been dedicated to him. Within months of graduating from the Royal Academy of music, Katherine signed the ‘biggest recording deal in UK classical music history’ and released her first album ‘Premiere’ which earned Jenkins her first of seven UK classical number 1’s as well as her first BRIT Award for best album. Sold out tours followed and performances & recordings with Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Jose Carreras, David Foster, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Bryn Terfyl, Rolando Villazon, Juan Diego Florez & Il Divo. She has performed all over the world and is a favourite of the Royal Family, having been invited to sing ‘God Save The Queen’ at Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee as well as at The Queens coronation Concerts at Buckingham Palace. Not afraid of stepping outside of her comfort zone, Jenkins has appeared as a mentor in ITV’s ‘Popstar to Operastar’, played the role of Abigail in the BBC’s iconic Dr Who Christmas Special, tap danced her way through ‘Viva la Diva’ with Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell as well as, most notably, winning 2nd place in the U.S. hit TV show ‘Dancing with the Stars’ in 2012. Also known as the ‘Forces Sweetheart’, Charity work has always played an important role for Jenkins. After singing ‘We’ll Meet Again’ with Dame Vera Lynn at the 60th Anniversary of VE Day, she became a trustee of the British Forces Foundation (2005), travelling to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Cyprus & Northern Ireland to entertain the troops. She is also an ambassador for cancer charity Macmillan V raising over £30,000 by running the London marathon for them in 2013. Katherine & her husband, Artist & Film maker Andrew Levitas, announced they were expecting their first child in 2015. After taking some time off with her family, 2016 sees Jenkins performing her dream role of Carmen at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod as well as performing, by request, at Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday at Windsor Castle. Photo Credit @venni
Roberto Prosseda

Roberto Prosseda was born in Latina, Italy, in 1975. His Decca albums dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn, including the Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, have won much acclaim in the press, including the CHOC from Le Monde de la Musique Classique, the Diapason d’Or and Chamber Music CD of the Month in the UK’s Classic FM magazine. In 2010, Deutsche Grammophon selected twelve recordings by Prosseda to add to the box set, “Classic Gold”. In 2014 Prosseda completed his 10-years project of recording all Mendelssohn’s piano works for Decca in 9 CDs. Roberto Prosseda has performed regularly with some of the world’s most important orchestras, such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Moscow State Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Bruxelles Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Netherlands Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus. He performed under the baton of David Afkham, Marc Albrecht, Christian Arming, Harry Bickett, Riccardo Chailly, Pietari Inkinen, Yannik Nezeit-Seguin, George Pehlivanian, Dennis Russel-Davies, Tugan Sokhiev, Jan Willem de Vriend, Jurai Valcuha. Other than Mendelssohn, whose piano music he is considered to be a leading interpreter of today, Prosseda’s interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin have been particularly praised, and these composers have in fact featured in Prosseda’s recent Decca recordings. In 2015, Prosseda started the complete recording of Mozart’ Piano Sonatas with a modern piano tuned with unequal temperament. An active proponent of Italian music, Prosseda also recorded the complete piano works of Petrassi and Dallapiccola. In September 2011 Prosseda gave his debut on the pedal piano, performing the Concerto for Pedal Piano by Gounod in the world premiere version for modern instrument. Concerts are planned in the next seasons on this instrument, rediscovering the original compositions by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Charles Valentin Alkan. Several composers, including Ennio Morricone, have already written new pieces for pedal piano for Roberto Prosseda, and a recording of the four Gounod’s pieces for pedal piano and orchestra with Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Howard Shelley, released on the Hyperion label in fall 2013. Roberto Prosseda is also very active in musical divulgation. He wrote the book “Il Pianoforte” for Curci Editori (2013) and realized three documentaries dedicated to Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt (Euroarts). He is currently artistic advisor at Cremona Musica International Exhibitions and president of Associazione Mendelssohn
Teotronico

TeoTronico (2012) is a pianist-robot, designed and built by Matteo Suzzi (Teotronica srl). TeoTronico plays the piano with considerable dynamic control and articulation, moving its 53 fingers with great accuracy and speed. He made his debut with the orchestra on August 26, 2012 with the Berlin Symphoniker at the Philharmonie in Berlin, performing Chopin’s Grande Polonaise Brillante op. 22. In November 4, 2012 TeoTronico played Mozart’s Piano Concerto K 488 with Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. In May 26, 2013 the Brazilian National Television Globo TV broadcast a reportage about TeoTronico and Roberto Prosseda in the prime time show “Fantastico”: http://globotv.globo.com/rede-globo/fantastico/t/edicoes/v/robo-pianista-
encara-desafio-contra-maestro-italiano/2597122/
WHAT DOES TEOTRONICO DO?
TeoTronico is a mechanical MIDI player. It may reproduce a piano score literally, playing it from a midi file: it is therefore an ideal interpreter of repertoire for player-piano by Stravinsky, Hindemith, Nancarrow, Ligeti. TeoTronico can also take the “appearance” of a real pianist piano, playing MIDI files derived from piano rolls recorded by great pianists of the past, such as Busoni, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Hoffman. It can also play some “mirror-pianist” if connected to a digital piano played by a person (Roberto Prosseda, acting as “ghost-pianist”). In the “mirror-pianist” mode, TeoTronico can also play as a solo pianist with orchestra, in chamber ensembles and accompanist with singers, even remotely, miles away.
AND BESIDES PLAYING?
Teo can talk, sing and make funny facial expressions. It can reproduce written texts, grant or be dubbed in real time: in both modes, its lips movements are synchronized to the speech, in any language. Thus TeoTronico can interact with its interlocutors, even moving his head, mouth, eyes, eyelids and eyebrows. Equipped with proximity sensors, it can turn to the people who are approach it. When dubbed in real time, TeoTronico can answer questions from the audience. It can also perform with other musicians with an impressive versatility, if in “mirror-pianist” mode, with the assistance of a professional pianist.
WHAT IS IT FOR?
TeoTronico is an innovative and effective instrument of musical education and appreciation. It attracts young audience with its funny appearance and can introduce the founding elements of musical language to school students of any grade, in an immediate, engaging, entertaining way.[/one_full]
Alessandro Carbonare

Alessandro Carbonare, born in Desenzano del Garda (Italy), is principal clarinet of the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome since 2003.
Prior to this, for 15 years he lived in Paris where he served as principal clarinet of the Orchestre National de France.
Carbonare has been awared in many international music competitions around the world, among others, Geneva in 1990, Prague in 1991, Toulon in 1991, ARD Munich in 1991 and in 1992, and Paris in 1992.
He has appeared in concert with among others Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the National Orchestra of Spain, the Oslo Philarmonic Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich, the Wien the Sinfonietta, the Orchestre National de France, the Berlin Radio Orchestra and all the major Italian orchestras.
As principal clarinet, Carbonare has also performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Personally invited by Claudio Abbado, he played with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and under him the Mozart clarinet concerto K622 for Deutsche Grammophon, which won the 49th Record Academy Awards 2013, was recorded live. Many other recordings are available, such as “Alessandro Carbonare, the Art of Clarinet” for Decca.
Alessandro Carbonare plays not only classical music but also Jazz and Klezmer in collaboration with many high calibre musicians.
He is an active member of FESNOJIV in Venezuela, teaching music for free to hundreds of poor young people in Caracas.
He often works together with his famous musician friends, such as Leonidas Kavakos, Pinkas Zuckerman, Alexandre Lonquich, Lang Lang, Martha Argherich, Paquito D’Riveira, Luis Sclavis, Enrico Pieranunzi and Stefano Bollani.
Carbonare is also a professor at Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and during the summer he teacher courses at Accademia Chigiana di Siena.
Highlights
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May 26th, 2016
Festival del Pitic, Hermosillo, Mexico
José Carreras in Concert
conducted by Maestro David Giménez
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June 22nd, 2016
Bulgaria Concert Hall, Sofia
David Giménez conducts the Sofia Philharmonic
featuring Gladys Rossi & Valeri Turmanov
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August 11, 2016
Festival Mecenate, Arezzo, Italy
David Gimenez, conducting orchestra and Charlie Siem
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August 28th, 2016
Iwaki Performing Arts Centre, Japan
Fukushima Fukko (trans: hope of recovery)
Katherine Jenkins charity concert
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August 29th, 2016
Mahanakhon Opening Event, Bangkok, Thailand
Jose Carreras Special Performance
Conducted by David Gimenez
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September 3rd, 2016
Manpukuji Oto-butai Event, Kyoto, Japan
Katherine Jenkins Special Appearance
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December 11, 2016
Resorts World Genting, Malaysia
Julio Iglesias World Tour, Live in Genting
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December 29, 2016
Xi’an Concert Hall, China
Jose Carreras New Years Concert
Conducted by Maestro David Gimenez
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December 31, 2016
Tokyo, Japan
TV Tokyo New Years Countdown TV Special
Katherine Jenkins Special New Years Appearance
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January 1, 2017
Harbin Grand Theatre, China,
Hello, 2017! Jose Carreras in Concert
Conducted by Maestro David Gimenez
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January 3, 2017
Nanjing Olympic Sports Stadium, Nanjing, China
Jose Carreras Farewell Concert
Conducted by Maestro David Gimenez
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January 7, 2017
Stadium of National Taiwan University, Taichung, Taiwan
Jose Carreras Farewell Concert
Conducted by Maestro David Gimenez
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October 31 – November 7, 2017
BRAVO Cruise of the Performing Arts
José Carreras in Concert
Conducted by Maestro David Giménez
Festival del Pitic, Hermosillo, Mexico
José Carreras in Concert
conducted by Maestro David Giménez
Bulgaria Concert Hall, Sofia
David Giménez conducts the Sofia Philharmonic
featuring Gladys Rossi & Valeri Turmanov
Iwaki Performing Arts Centre, Japan
Fukushima Fukko (trans: hope of recovery)
Katherine Jenkins charity concert
BRAVO Cruise of the Performing Arts
José Carreras in Concert
Conducted by Maestro David Giménez
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