ARS CHORALIS 2010 - Hrvatska udruga zborovođa

Giovanni Acciai (Italy) • Regular teacher of History of
music, Musical semiography and Performance practice of the
Academy of music «Giuseppe Verdi» of Milan and University
of Potenza. He is graduated in Organ, in Composition and in
Conducting technique at the Academy of music «Giuseppe
Verdi» of Milan; he specialized in Musical paleography
and philololgy at the University of Pavia. Director of the
magazine «L’Offerta musicale», he has published numerous revisions of ancient
music, musicological studies, translations, critical editions. Already conductor
of the «Corale Universitaria di Torino» (from 1975 to 1983) and of the «Coro
del Teatro comunale di Bologna», 1981-1982), at the moment he is artistic and
musical conductor of the «Solisti del madrigale» and of the Collegium vocale et
instrumentale «Nova Ars Cantandi», at the guide of which he attended to an intense
concertistic and discographic activity. Since september 1989 and until the broke
of the ensamble (1995) he has been conductor of the Chamber choir of the RAI of
Rome. He is artistic director of the International choral competition of Riva del
Garda (Trento), and National choral competition of Quartiano (Italy). He is regularly
invited as president and member of jury of the most important international choral
competitions and to give relations at musicological meetings and stages of choral
conducting and of performance practice at national and foreign associations.
In attended to the recording of the Vespri per la festa di Ognissanti by Giovanni
Giacomo Arrigoni and the unabridged editions of Lamentazioni e i Responsori per
la Settimana santa, op. XXII e XXIII by Lodovico Viadana, Missae «Beata es virgo
Maria» and «Illuminare Jerusalem» by Giovanni Contino and Concerti ecclesiastici
by Giacomo Moro da Viadana for the discographic companies «Concerto» and
«Stradivarius» respectively; with the Ensemble «Micrologus» he has recorded a CD
entitled Europa concordia musicae, with polyphonic music of XV and XVI centuries,
ordered by the Cabinet and the RAI (Italian radio and television broadcasting
corporation) on the occasion of the Italian six-months period of presidency of the
European Union. For the discographic company «Nuova Era» he has been attended
the recording of the Quarto and Sesto libro de’ madrigali a cinque voci by Claudio
Monteverdi, performed by the «Solisti del madrigale» and for the SARX of Milan,
the unabridged edition of the Motecta festorum totius anni (1563) by Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina, performed by the Collegium vocale «Nova Ars Cantandi».
For the discographic company «Tactus» he has been attended the recording of the
Vespri della Beata Vergine of Isabella Leonarda performed by the Collegium vocale
«Nova Ars Cantandi».
The First International Artistic and Scientific Symposium on Choral Art, Singing and Voice – Zagreb, Croatia
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