European Prize for Culture – Symphonic Orchestra 1997

The Orchestra
The Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia was founded in 1986, carrying on the preceeding experience of the Orchestra Internazionale des Jaunnesses Musicales. Since then it has given more than nine hundred symphonic concerts and opera performances for several theatres, concert associations and festivals in Italy and abroad.


Conductors
In those years its main conductors have been Donato Renzetti, Lü Jia, Antonio Cipriani and Diego Dini Ciacci. The Orchestra was also conducted by Marcello Viotti, Salvatore Accardo, Aldo Ceccato, Massimo Freccia, Peter Maag, Cristian Mandeal, Carlo Franci, Milan Turkovic, Thomas Sanderling, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Alberto Zedda, Ennio Morricone, Bundit Ungrangsee, Manuel Galduf, Pedro Halffter, Ignacio Yepes, Marko Letonja, Tyrone Paterson, Hansjoerg Schellenberger, Corrado Rovaris, Marco Guidarini, Renato Palumbo, Giuliano Carella, Horia Andreescu.  

Soloists
It collaborated with artists such as Mstislav Rostropovic, Viktoria Mullova, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Murray Perahia, Joshua Bell, Jlya Grubert, Alirio Diaz, Natalja Gutman, Radovan Vlatkovic, Kyung-Wha Chung, Leonidas Kavakos, Hansjoerg Schellenberger, Massimo Quarta, Julian Rachlin, Igor Oistrakh, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Rosalyn Tureck, Marin Cazacu, Alexandra Gutu, Federico Mondelci, Gabriele Pieranunzi, e con i maggiori cantanti lirici, tra cui Luciano Pavarotti, Josè Carreras, Renato Bruson, Rockwell Blake, Raina Kabaivanska, Katia Ricciarelli, Nazareno Antinori, Francisco Araiza, June Anderson, Cecilia Gasdia, Patrizia Ciofi, Daniela Dessì, Elena Obratzova, Paolo Coni, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Eufemia Tufano.

National activity
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Since 1987 it is the resident orchestra of the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca and between 1995 and 1998 it was the guest orchestra of the Arena Sferisterio in Macerata Opera. It was also the resident orchestra of the season of 'Concerts Telecom Italia' in the Sistina Theatre in Rome between 1996 and 1998. The Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia has performed with the principal Italian Festivals, Theatres and Concert Season, in Turin, Ravenna, Bologna, Neaples, Rome, Ferrara, Pesaro, Potenza, Taranto, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Mantova. From 2003 it is the resident Orchestra of the Ventidio Basso Theatre in Ascoli Piceno.

International activity
Since 1997 it developed an intense activity abroad, giving more than 200 concerts in Europe, Asia, Central and South America. The Orchestra has also been present in China, Cuba, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macao, with several Symphonic and lyric tour during the last seven years, entitled “On the steps of Father Matteo Ricci”, with more that eighty concerts and lyric performances in the main cities of the countries.

Video-Cd productions
The orchestra took part in more than 30 TV programmes (among which 4 in World broadcast and 2 in Eurovision) in Italy, Spain, Brazil and China and it has made almost 70 CD recordings for Italians, Spanish, English, Japanese, New Zealand, German and Thai labels.

The Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia has been awarded
the European Prize for Culture as Symphonic Orchestra 1997

Numbers

627 Concerts, 268 Operas, ......


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