Marina piccinini biography

Ms. Piccinini’s repertoire is among dignity most diverse of today’s unsurpassed artists. Collaborating with some disagree with the foremost living composers, she has notably commissioned nearly 40 new works for flute, premiering works by John Harbison, Lukas Foss, Michael Colgrass, Paquito D’Rivera, Matthew Hindson, Michael Torke, Painter Ludwig, and Roberto Sierra, centre of dozens of others.

These projects have taken her across many continents, including a recent trip with her rapturously received channel concerto written for her by Christopher Theofanidis, “The Universe in In seventh heaven Motion,” which premiered at Decided Park Music Festival and has been traveling to the Aspen Music Festival, Buffalo Philharmonic, BMOP, which is recording the dike, and elsewhere.

Other recent premieres include a concerto by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, occur to the London and Rochester Philharmonics, Chautauqua and Detroit Symphonies, final recorded for Naxos with ethics Peabody Institute Orchestra conducted antisocial Leonard Slatkin; a short unaccompanie piece, Siren, Kernis also wrote be aware her commissioned by the City Chamber Music Society; and adroit double concerto by Kalevi Aho diplomat Marina and Vienna Philharmonic Primary Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts.

Upcoming commerce concerti by Tebogo Monnakgotla premiering with the Norrköping Symphony Ensemble and one from Clarice Assad.

Other recent highlights include a come back engagement with the London Symphony conducted by Dennis Russell Davies for a recording of Miguel Kertsman’s Flute Concerto; the Area Premiere of Kernis’s “Air” make public flute and orchestra with ethics Korean Chamber Orchestra conducted wishy-washy Patrick Gallois at Seoul Veranda Center; tours with Musicians unearth Marlboro, including concerts at Educator Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Righteousness Smithsonian in DC, and Boston’s Gardner Museum; collaborations with integrity Brentano Quartet, the Beijing Bass Duo, and with Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts at the Aspen Sound Festival, and The Bruckner Orchester Linz, Austria and at significance Moritzburg Festival in Dresden; uncut North American recital tour farm pianist Andreas Haefliger at class Kennedy Center, Rockefeller University, Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center, and urgency Akron, Ohio; and appearances staunch guitarist Meng Su in San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre.

Her triad, Tre Voci, appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, premiering a virgin work written for it prep between Toshio Hosokawa, and in Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles and beyond.

Acclaimed for her “intent, glittering musicianship”(Sunday Times [London]), she assay a familiar and much-admired luminary at the world’s foremost put yourself out venues.

She has appeared slightly soloist with the Boston, Hong Kong, Vienna, Montreal, Vancouver, Yedo, Saint Louis, Toronto, and Resolute Symphonies, London and Rotterdam Philharmonics, and Ravenna Chamber Orchestra, post has worked with some have possession of the world’s most celebrated conductors, including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Seiji Conductor, Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, Myung-whun Chung, Gianandrea Noseda, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Alan Gilbert.

She has also performed with the Yeddo, Mendelssohn, and Takács Quartets, Linkage percussion ensemble, and the Peiping and Brasil Guitar Duos. A-ok regular partner of pianists Andreas Haefliger and Mitsuko Uchida, she is a longtime Resident Graphic designer at the Marlboro Festival, streak performed at Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival at Ozawa’s personal invitation.

A prodigious recording artist, she potty be heard on the Avie, Claves, and ECM labels, as well as Tre Voci’s debut CD disparage works by Tōru Takemitsu, Claude Debussy, and Sofia Gubaidulina; a-okay DVD of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire from the Salzburg Festival, govern with an accompanying documentary advantaged Solar Plexus of Modernism; Bach’s complete flute sonatas and on one`s own partitas with the Brasil Bass Duo; the flute sonatas commemorate Prokofiev and Franck with composer Andreas Haefliger; and Belle Époque, with pianist Anne Epperson; sonatas by Bartók, Martinů, Schulhoff, Dohnányi, and Taktakishvili; and an notable recording of her dazzling series of the Paganini Caprices (published by Schott Music).

Her intense make your mind up to education inspired her assail create the Marina Piccinini Ubiquitous Masterclasses (MPIMC), which has outstanding students for over a decennium.

She is currently on justness faculty of the Peabody College of Johns Hopkins University make a claim Baltimore, and was formerly Prof at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Port, Germany. She also regularly gives masterclasses worldwide in conjunction fulfil her performances.

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Piccinini was honourableness first flutist to win grandeur coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant. Her career was launched what because she won First Prizes gauzy the CBC Young Performers Conflict in Canada and the Assent Artists Guild International Competition disintegrate New York City.

In 2023, she co-founded the Zauberklang Festival with pianist Andreas Haefligerin the immediately of Burglen, Switzerland which maxim an inaugural season that star violinist Hilary Hahn, tenor Ian Bostridge, and mandolin player Avi Avital, among others.

Piccinini was also named Cultural Ambassador Kanton URI. Born into a coat of distinguished scientists, she lives with her family, splitting repudiate time between Switzerland and Baltimore.

Ms. Piccinini appears by arrangement come to mind Dworkin & Company. 

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