Anfiteatro Andrzej Tomaszewski - Auditorium al Duomo Florence

Daniel Kotlinski
He began his studies in Poland, with Barbara Iglikowska at the School of Vocals and Theater
at the Stanislaw Moniuszko Music Academy in Gdansk, graduating in Vocal Arts with high
honors; he took specialization courses in Italy (in Fiesole, Project Mozart-Da Ponte, and at
the Accademia Chigiana in Siena), honing his skills under the guidance of teachers such as
Giorgio Favaretto, Lajos Kozma, Claudio Desideri, Fedora Barbieri, and Ronaldo Panerai.
In the course of his career as a bass-baritone he was guest starred in many festivals (Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino, Estate Musicale Senese, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano,
Kissinger Sommer, Monte Carlo Festival, Puccini Festival, Festival della Valle d’Itria,
Sankt Petersburg Festival), and he has performed in various countries (Poland, Germany,
France, Monaco, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Russia, USA). His vast concert and
lyrical repertoire varies from Mozart to Bellini and Donizetti, from Rimskij-Korsakov to
Tchaikovsky, from Verdi to R. Strauss, and finally from Schönberg to Szymanowski and Penderecki.
He has collaborated with some of the world’s leading composers such as: Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Spiro Argiris, Hans
Werner Henze, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Arnold Bosman, Jan Latham Koenig and with distinguished directors
such as Jean Pierre Ponnelle, Liliana Cavani, Michael Hampe, Jonathan Miller, Derek Jarman and Lorenzo Mariani. For
health reasons, from the year 1998 to 2005 he has not performed as a singer.
Since 1999, as head of Syrinx-Kotlinski Management & Productions, which he founded, he has organized or collaborated
with many important events in Poland and around the world with the likes of such artists as José van Dam, Renato Bruson,
Dame Felicity Lott, Renata Scotto, Paul Esswood, Katia Ricciarelli, Salvatore Licitra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Misha Maisky,
James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Krzysztof Penderecki, Plácido Domingo, with orchestras such as the Bayerischer Rundfunk,
the Israel Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de
Radio France, the Warsaw Symphony, with baroque ensembles such as Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca and Musica Antiqua
Köln, and with major opera companies like Teatro alla Scala of Milan.
Since 1997 he has even dedicated himself to teaching: he currently teaches at the School of Vocals and Theater and the
Stanislaw Moniuszko Music Academy in Gdansk, and he holds master classes in singing in Poland and abroad. As an expert
of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation ®
he has stimulated the non-profit musical activities of this foundation. In
the 2006/2007 season he was named the first superintendent of the Auditorium al Duomo of Florence.
Recently Daniel Kotlinski has taught singing courses and performed recitals in Berlin, Florence, Parma, and in Saint Petersburg.
For the conclusion of the XXVI Kissinger Sommer Festival in Bavaria he performed Chopin and Liszt in a
recital, along with pianists Semion Skigin and Evgheni Bozhanov, which was enthusiastically received by critics and audiences
of this prestigious international event.
He has also recorded for radio and television, both Polish and Russian, RAI and Bavarian Radio.
Massimo Guidetti
After receiving his Diploma in Piano with top honors from the Conservatory “Arrigo Boito”
in Parma, he went on to graduate from the Accademia Pianistica of Imola and the Scuola Superiore
Internazionale di Musica da Camera del Trio of Trieste. For vocal chamber music he
studied with Erik Werba and Dalton Baldwin. Guidetti was winner of the Premio Speciale
per Duo (Special Prize for the Duo) at the Concorso di Vittorio Veneto and was awarded honorable
mention at the Concorso Lilian Caraian of Trieste dedicated to the pianoforte in chamber
music in 1995, he currently performs concerts mainly in chamber ensemble. He has also
played with I Solisti della Scala and with Sestetto Poulenc. He is currently a member of the
Alma Ensemble, a chamber group with training ranging from trio to quintet, and also plays
in piano duo with Raffaele Cortesi with whom he has in his repertoire some of the most difficult
musical works, both contemporary of the twentieth century.
In 2002 he made his debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York where again
performed in 2003 during a large tour in the United States.
In 2005 he performed live on the radio station RAI in Rome for Concerti del Quirinale. He has also given numerous
concerts collaborating with singers such as Raina Kabaivanska, Mirella Freni, Alfredo Kraus, Michele Pertusi, Leo Nucci,
and many others. He has even been the piano accompanist at the Teatro all Scala in Milan, the Teatro Comunale di Firenze,
and the Teatro Regio in Parma.
Since 2003 he has been the pianist for the Orchestra Symphonica Toscanini with whom he has toured all over the world
under the guidance of conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Georges Prêtre, Jeffrey Tate, Mstislav Rostropovich,
and Yuri Temirkanov.
In the fall semester of 2009, as a visiting fellow at Cornell University, NY, he worked closely with Malcolm Bilson on
his study of the historical performance practice on the pianoforte.
He now teaches at the Conservatory “Arrigo Boito” in Parma.
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