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Matteo Mencarelli & Filippo Farinelli
Biographie Matteo Mencarelli & Filippo Farinelli
Matteo Mencarelli
was born in Perugia on 24 September 1998. He graduated from the Annibale Mariotti Music High School in Perugia in 2017 and is now a student on the academic programme at the F. Morlacchi Conservatoire of Music under the guidance of M. Maria Grazia Pittavini. He has attended advanced courses in operatic singing with Ms Donatella Debolini and Ms Maria Grazia Pittavini in 2015 and 2019 respectively. He was the winner of the “San Vigilio in Canto” competition in the Operatic Singing category in Rome in 2016. He was a finalist in the “Premio San Carlo” competition at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 2016. He was a chorister in the “Coro Mariotti” from 2013 to 2017. He played the role of Marco in four performances of “Gianni Schicchi” by G. Puccini in 2018 at the Teatro Papini Santo Stefano in Pieve Santo Stefano and at the Teatro Sant’Angelo in Perugia. He took part in three performances of G. Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” as a chorister at the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, conducted by Mirca Rosciani in 2018. He took part in the opening concert of the “Festival dei Due Mondi” in Spoleto, conducted by Carlo Palleschi, and performed in a further concert at the Festival in 2018. He played Don Giovanni in W. A. Mozart’s *Don Giovanni* at the Teatro Papini Santo Stefano in Pieve Santo Stefano in 2019. He played Don Eusebio in four performances of G. Rossini’s *L’Occasione fa il ladro* in 2019. He has recently performed in opera and chamber music concerts in Italy and abroad. Winner of three regional pop music competitions.
Filippo Farinelli
is a pianist and a multifaceted musician, mainly specialized in chamber and vocal chamber music repertoire.
His passion for the French repertoire brought him to realize several monographic recording’s projects with Brilliant Classics, including the complete chamber vocal catalogue by Maurice Ravel and André Jolivet alongside the complete music for Saxophone and Piano by Charles Koechlin together with David Brutti. His engagement on the chamber music repertoire of the last century let him confront with the vocal production of Luigi Dallapiccola as well as with the Entartete Musik. Continuously focused on the contemporary repertoire for solo piano he regularly performs music by Italian composers such as Donatoni, Sciarrino and Momi together with the international repertoire for chamber ensemble including works by (Denisov, Messiaen, Williams). His research on rare and facets repertoire for duo recently led to the co-curatorship of the critical edition of Guido Alberto Fano’s Fantasia Sonata for SEDM.
He has been prize-winner in several international competitions such as Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2007 in Amsterdam, 18th Caltanissetta International Competition, 21st International Competition in Trapani and he founded several ensembles: the Duo Disecheis (dedicated to the historical and contemporary repertoire for sax and piano), Duo Komma (characterized by the desire to rediscover and reassess manuscript works that are part of Italy’s 19th- and 20th-century instrumental repertoire) and the Quartetto Rêves (specialized in the French repertoire of the IX and XX century from duo to quartet).
He works with renowned musicians such as Melissa Phelps, Elisabeth Perry, Federico Mondelci, Mario Caroli, Ivo Nilsson, Patrick De Ritis, Jonathan Williams, and singers such as Monica Piccinini, Alda Caiello, Sophie Marilley, Mark Milhofer, Christian Immler and Roberto Abbondanza. Filippo regularly plays in Italian seasons (Amici della Musica in Perugia, Modena, Foggia, Catanzaro, Terni…) and in Festival such as Ljubljana Festival, MusicaRivaFestival, “da Bach a Bartòk” in Imola, Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello, Automne Musical in Châtellerault, Sagra Musicale Umbra. He has mainly recorded with Brilliant Classics and Tactus.
He got degrees in piano and chamber music as well as in composition and orchestral conducting, he obtained a Postgraduate at the Music University of Wien in vocal chamber music repertoire and he studied with Charles Spencer, Irwin Gage, Dalton Baldwin, Pier Narciso Masi and Dario De Rosa among others. He currently serves as Professor of Vocal Chamber Music in Italian Conservatories and held masterclasses in Europe.
