Vittorio Ghielmi

Gamba player, conductor, composer. Born in Milano, Italy, still very young he attracts notice for the intensity and versatility of his musical interpretation and for his new approach to the viol and to the sound of ancient music repertoire. His studies on the field, about old musical traditions still living in forgotten place of the world brought to light new perspective in the interpretation of European "ancient music". Winner of "Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco" (Brescia 1995) and Erwin Bodky Award (Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 1997). As viol soloist or conductor (with orchestras as London Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Bowl Hall Hollywood-Graun concerto, Wiener Philharmoniker, Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburger Baroque Orchestra etc.), and in duo with the brother Lorenzo Ghielmi or with Luca Pianca, he plays in the most important halls of Europe, USA, Japan (Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie Berlin, Casals Hall, Tokio etc.). He has been invited to play as soloist the world première of many “new music” composition (Kevin Volans, Teatro Regio di Torino; Nadir Vassena, Berliner Philharmoniker Hall). Played in duo and trio with artist as Gustav Leonhart, Christophe Coin, Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola, Cecilia Bartoli, Enrico Onofri etc. His ensemble" Il Suonar Parlante ", in both the shapes of gamba quartett (Rodney Prada, Fahmi Alqhai, Cristiano Contadin) or orchestra, is devoted to a new investigation of the ancient repertoire, but plays also with important jazz players as Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine, Jim Black, Don Byron, Markus Stockhausen, Nguyen Lê, pop singer like Vinicio Capossela, flamenco star as Carmen Linares etc. Several jazzists and composers wrote new music for this ensemble. The ensemble collaborates as well with traditional asian musicians as the afghans virtuosos of "ensemble Kaboul" (Khaled Arman). Recorded several solo CD winning critic prizes (Decca, Teldec, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi France, Accent, CPO etc.). His last production are for Winter&Winter, München, Germany and Passacaille (Belgium). He is one of the rare gamba players who is normally demanded to play as solo performer with orchestras. In 2007 conceives and conducts a big spectacle around Buxtehude's "Membra Jesu Nostri", with the American film maker Marc Reshovsky (Hollywood) and with the Swedish choir "Rilke ensemblen" (G.Eriksson). He works as Riccardo Muti assistant in Salzburg Pfingstam festival. In 2008 Uri Caine composed and dedicated to him a "concerto for viola da gamba and orchestra", inaugurated in Amsterdam Konzertgebouw. Titular professor in Conservatorio Luca Marenzio (Brescia) as well as in severals master-classes and Universities. In the "Politecnico della cultura, delle arti e delle lingue" Milano, he organizes cycles of studies and concerts on the ancient instrumental techniques and their survival in "ethnical" musical traditions. He published studies on music and unpublished score (Fuzeau, Minkoff, Ut Orpheus) and the integrale edition of Johan Gottlieb Graun's Viola da Gamba Concertos, and direct the scientifical musical research of “Libroforte-Fine Music editions”).

Discography

• Bagpipes from Hell — Music for Viola da gamba, Lyra-viol, Lute, and Ceterone. 17th and 18th century (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 1999_

• Pièces de caractère — Works by: Marais, Forqueray, Mouton, Dollé, Caix d'Hervelois, De Visée (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 2002)

• Short Tales for a Viol — English lyra-viol music of the 17th century (Vittorio Ghielmi)

• Duo - German Music for Lute & Viol (Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca)

• Full of Colour (V. Ghielmi, E. Reijseger, Il Suonar Parlante)

• Johann Sebastian Bach — Preludi ai corali (Vittorio Ghielmi, Italian Viola da Gamba Quartet)

• Telemann, Georg Philipp — Chamber Music with Viola Da Gamba (Ensemble Baroque de Limoges)

• Devil's Dream (Ghielmi, Pianca, Gibelli)

• Johann Sebastian Bach — Sonatas, Preludes and Fugues

• Villa Medici - Nata per la musica Bern, Beschi, Caine

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Lieder zum singen bey dem Clavier

• Johann Gottlieb Graun — Konzertante Musik mit Viola da Gamba

• J. S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord, Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano). Also includes Bach Preludes & Fugues, 1998, [Lorenzo is Vittorio's older brother]

• C. P. E. Bach: Lieder - Zum singen bey dem clavier — Ursula Fiedler (Sorpano) Lorenzo Ghielmi (Clavier), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Ars Musici, 1999

• Der Kastanienball — Vittorio Ghielmi, Il Suonar Parlante — Prinzregenten Theater, Munchen, Germany (2004).

• Dalla Casa: Il Secondo Libro dei Madrigali — Il Terzo Suono Balconi, Dalla Casa, Fabris, Fagotto, Fedi

• Graun: Concerti — Ponseele, Il Gardellino Ensemble

• Graun: Concerti CPO

• Marin Marais: La Force et la Douceur, Pièces de viole, V. Ghielmi and Luca Pianca, Passacaille, 2010

• Barbarian Beauty, Concertos for viola da gamba and orchestra, (Graun, Telemann, Tartini and Vivaldi: the gypsy side), with Marcel Comendant (cymbalon), Dorothee Oberlinger recorder, M.Hirasaki, violin and "Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra", Passacaille 2011

References

video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av20FgeJIok

External links

• [1] www.vittorioghielmi.com
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