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🎯 An exceptional TRIO to close the XX Concert Series 2024, featuring **Antonio Tinelli** on clarinet, Finnish cellist **Martti Rousi**, a professor at the Helsinki Academy and silver medalist at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and Russian pianist **Yulia Moseychuk**.

The program includes three absolute masterpieces of chamber music:

- Alexander Zemlinsky - **TRIO op.3**
- Johannes Brahms - **Clarinet Trio op.114**
- Nino Rota - **TRIO**

💥 **Don't miss it**... we look forward to seeing many of you, as usual. Free admission until seats are filled!!

### Biographies

**ANTONIO TINELLI**, clarinet
“…I am very impressed by the beauty of the sound, the quality of the dynamics, the play of timbre colors, the expressiveness, and the musical imagination.” [Karl Leister - historical solo clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan]; “In a word, superb” [Fanfare Magazine, USA]; "...masterful interpretation” [The Clarinet - USA]; "…an interpreter with masterful phrasing and complete musicality" [Musica - Italy].

His career includes exceptional collaborations with artists such as Karl Leister, Fabio Bidini, Yuri Gandelsman, Paolo Pollastri, Francesco Pomarico, the Enesco Quartet (Paris) and Giuliano Mazzoccante, with whom he forms a stable duo. Numerous composers, including Angelo Inglese, Luigi Giachino, Ante Grgin, Giuseppe Garbarino, Giuseppe Ricotta, and Walter Farina, have dedicated works to him. Awarded in major national and international competitions, he has an important artistic activity carried out in Europe, the Far East, and the USA. As a soloist, he has collaborated with orchestras such as the Kiev RTV Festival Orchestra, the “George Enescu” Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest, the International Orchestra of Italy, the Milan Classical Orchestra, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela (Caracas), the State Opera Orchestra of Mersin (Turkey), the Kazakhstan State Academic Symphony Orchestra (Almaty), the Portuguese Navy Band (Lisbon), the “Virtuosi di Kiev” Orchestra (Malta). He inaugurated the 39th International Convention “ClarinetFest®” at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska USA. He has recorded for the RAI and SKY Classic (Italy), Deutsche Südwestfunk (Germany), National Radio and TVR 1 Bucharest (Romania), TV Dubai (U.A.E.), News 24 (Albania), Venezuela TV, Radio Classic (Kazakhstan) and has recorded for Urania Records, Dad Records, VDM Records/RAI Trade, and Phoenix Classics. He has several recorded CDs, including one in Trio with Karl Leister and Giuliano Mazzoccante, published by Camerata Tokyo. Some recordings have been awarded silver medals at the “Global Music Awards” in Los Angeles. He has also received 5 stars from the national magazine “Musica.” The recordings are available on major streaming platforms (Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, iTunes, and Deezer). He is a professor of clarinet at the Conservatory of Music “N. Piccinni” in Bari and teaches masterclasses in Europe, the Far East, and the USA, and is the Artistic Director of the International Clarinet Competition “Saverio Mercadante.” Antonio Tinelli is an official Buffet-Crampon and D’Addario Woodwind International Artist. [www.antoniotinelli.com]

**MARTTI ROUSI**, cello
Martti Rousi is one of the leading cellists of his generation. He has been equally successful as both an international soloist and an educator. In 1986, Rousi won the silver medal at the VIII Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Since then, he has performed with major Scandinavian and European orchestras such as the Radio Orchestras of Helsinki, Stockholm, and Oslo, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the CBSO of Birmingham, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony, the national orchestras of Poland and Hungary, the Statsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Shanghai Philharmonic, and Johannesburg Philharmonics, working with conductors like Esa-Pekka Salonen, Valeri Gergiev, Okko Kamu, Osmo Vänskä, Sakari Oramo, Olli Mustonen, Ari Rasilainen, Leif Segerstam, Emmanuel Krivine, Bernhart Klee, Joseph Swensen, and Muhai Tang. Rousi has a vast repertoire that also encompasses Baroque and contemporary music, performing with chamber orchestras in Moscow, Munich, Ostrobothnia, Tallinn, and Toulouse. During the '90s, Rousi played in a piano trio with violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Peter Nagy, also performing Beethoven’s triple and Brahms’ double concertos. In recitals, he performs with pianists such as Olli Mustonen, Kathryn Stott, Henri Sigfridsson, Laura Mikkola, Massimo Somenzi, and Juhani Lagerspetz. He is regularly invited to major chamber music festivals worldwide. Between 1993 and 2009, Rousi was the artistic director of the Turku Music Festival, programming legendary artists like Sviatoslav Richter, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valeri Gergiev, and Lang Lang. In 2010, he became the artistic director of SIBAFEST in Helsinki, and from 2010 to 2011, he was the artistic director of the Sibelius series at Verkatehdas in Hämeenlinna. In 2012, he was appointed the Artistic Director of Suvisoitto in Sysmä. In 2019, he became the director of a new Cellofest in Helsinki that brings together emerging young soloists in major concert halls across Finland. He has been a jury member at major international competitions such as the XIV Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2011 and 2015, Vittorio Gui in Florence, the International Competition for Duo in Lyon, the Eleanore Schoenfeld Competition, Classic Strings in Vienna, the Mravinsky Competition, the Soloist Prize in Stockholm, and the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki. His most significant teachers include Arto Noras, Janos Starker, Natalia Gutman, Valter Deshpalj, and William Pleeth. Since 1995, Rousi has been a professor of cello at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. His cello class attracts talents from all over the world. In 2016, he was invited as a guest professor to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Rousi is invited to hold masterclasses at major academies and festivals on all continents. His recordings include several solo and chamber music records for the ONDINE and FINLANDIA labels. He plays a Carlo Giuseppe Testore cello from 1690, a J-B Lefevre from 1760, and a Davide Cortesi cello made in Ravenna in 2010. His preferred bow is an FX Tourte from 1810.

**YULIA MOSEYCHUK**, piano
Born in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) in 1991, she began studying music early and graduated from the Regional Experimental Music School of Fine Arts in Rostov for particularly gifted children. She later earned a higher-level professional diploma from the “Rostov Art College” with qualifications as an orchestra teacher and concertmaster. She made her solo debut at the age of 16 with the Rostov Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Felix B. Mendelssohn's 2nd Piano Concerto and Dmitri Shostakovich’s 2nd Piano Concerto. She refined her skills at the higher professional institute of the Rostov State Conservatory "Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninoff", earning the academic certificate. After moving to Italy, she attended and graduated from the Conservatory of Music “Niccolò Piccinni” in Bari under the guidance of Maestro Pasquale Iannone, earning Academic Diplomas of I and II level in Piano with a soloist specialization, with honors and special mention. She actively collaborates with various musical institutions, theater companies, national and international competitions as an accompanist pianist. She has collaborated in training actions with significant names in international concert performances such as Christoph Stradner, Stefano Cerrato, Nikita Zimin, Sharon Kam, Milos Mijatovic, and Andrew Marriner. Recently, she recorded in world premiere “Lacrymosa” for clarinet and piano composed by Angelo Inglese for the “Holocaust Remembrance Day” and dedicated it to Antonio Tinelli. For years, she has worked as a collaborator teacher at the Conservatory of Music “N. Piccinni” in Bari in classes of singing, scenic art, orchestral conducting, and musical instruments. She is a winner of international competitions for piano and chamber music in Finland, Austria, Russia, and Italy.

The event is organized by the Musico Cultural Association of Noci (Bari) in collaboration with the Municipality of Noci and with the support of the Puglia Region - Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture, and Enhancement of the Territory.
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