Final concert of the Valle d'Itria Guitar Festival 2024 with the duo Marco Ramelli (classical guitar) and Enrica Savigni (19th-century guitar) on September 3, 2024 at 8:30 pm at the Municipal Library "Isidoro Chirulli" in Martina Franca. Free admission.
Music by I. Albeniz, R. Schumann, J. Brahms, J.K. Mertz, C. Schumann, N. Paganini, M. Ramelli, F. Sor.
Marco Ramelli
Marco Ramelli is an eclectic figure in the guitar music world, distinguished as a performer, teacher, organizer, researcher, and composer. He is currently a professor at the TU Dublin Conservatoire in Ireland.
Having won important international competitions (Italy, Spain, UK, Serbia, France), he has performed in major venues and international festivals including the National Concert Hall (Dublin), Stevenson Hall (Glasgow), Usher Hall (Edinburgh), Akbank Sanat Conser (Istanbul), Veria Festival (Greece), and Castello Sforzesco (Milan). After his debut album "Energico" (Nimbus Alliance) in 2013, he released an album with Brilliant Classics in 2018 featuring the complete solo music of Federico Mompou and Roberto Gerhard. He has also recorded for Naxos, Dynamic records, and Radio di Las Palmas.
Passionate about contemporary music, Marco has commissioned and premiered over fifty compositions for solo and chamber music. As a composer, he won the World Guitar Composition Competition and his music is performed by internationally acclaimed soloists including Lorenzo Micheli, Sean Shibe, Andrea De Vitis, and Andrea Dieci. In 2022, he published a chapter in the book "Roberto Gerhard: re-appraising a musical visionary" published by Oxford University Press.
Marco is actively involved in promoting music, especially among young people: he is the Artistic Director of several music festivals in Italy, Czech Republic, and Ireland, such as the Centro Asteria Autumn Strings Festival in Milan, the Touch The Sound Project in Carpi (Mo). Marco is also the Director of the Dublin Guitar Symposium and part of the organizing committee of Music Performance Research Ireland. In 2018, he was awarded the “Golden Guitar 2018” for his promotion by the Scientific Committee of the International Guitar Conference “Michele Pittaluga”.
He regularly gives masterclasses and lectures at major music institutions in Italy, Ireland, Spain, UK, Greece, China, and the USA. As a Researcher, he has published for Oxford.
In 2019, he obtained a PhD in performance and composition from the prestigious University of St Andrews and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a research entitled "The composer and the performer: An intertwined relationship".
He began studying guitar with Andrea Dieci, graduating from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan; he later completed a postgraduate diploma at the Luca Marenzio Conservatory of Music in Darfo. He graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a Master Degree of Performance (APEL) with distinction with Alan Neave in guitar, and studied composition with Rory Boyle. He also obtained a postgraduate diploma in “ Chamber Music ” with full marks and a degree in Computer Science from Bicocca University.
Enrica Savigni
Enrica Savigni is a multi-instrumentalist with a varied musical background who now focuses on studying instruments and repertoire from the classical-romantic period.
Enrica began studying classical guitar at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma under the guidance of Maestro Walter Pezzali, with whom she graduated in 2010 with top marks and honors. At the same time, she studied clarinet with Maestro Roberto Saltini and graduated in 2014.
From 2011 to 2015, she collaborated with the Teatro Regio in Parma in productions of operas such as Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Falstaff, Rigoletto, and Nabucco. During the same years, she performed as a banjo player in the production of The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill at Teatro Due in Parma, played with the orchestra in the concert of Antonello Venditti at the Arena di Verona, and accompanied singer Arisa with MG_Inc Ensemble on the Rai program "Che Tempo Che Fa".
In September 2013, she graduated from the Accademia Civica in Milan under the guidance of the Maccari-Pugliese duo in 19th-century guitar, an instrument she is currently dedicating herself to and performing with in concerts.
She performs in a duo with Laura Savigni (romantic guitar and fortepiano), with whom she carries out various projects related to music for guitar and fortepiano performed on historical instruments (originals and copies). They have performed in concerts in Italy and abroad and have trained at the Chamber Music Academy of Duino with the Trio di Parma.
In January 2019, their first album “Duo Savigni: music by Giuliani-Moscheles-Mertz” (Movimento Classical) was released in the music magazine Amadeus, and in 2020 their second album, “Fu?r Beethoven: music for guitar and fortepiano inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven” (M&P Editions). They are currently working on recording the complete works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel for guitar and fortepiano.
In June 2021, she obtained a Master's degree in 19th-century guitar from the department of early music at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels with Maestro Xavier Diaz Latorre.
She is the artistic director, along with luthier Gabriele Lodi and guitarist Marco Ramelli, of the TouchTheSound Project organization, which is dedicated to promoting research and practice on historical instruments.
She regularly holds seminars, masterclasses, and conferences on 19th-century guitar repertoire and performance practices, including participation in PERFROM_Live (2022, Dublin), the I Congresso Guitarristico di Braga (2022, Portugal), SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference (2023, Dublin), Guitaromanie (2023, Rovato), and Mikulov (2024).
She currently teaches guitar at Maynooth University (Ireland) and is in her second year of a Doctorate in Performance (DMus) at the TU Dublin Conservatoire.
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