FLORENCE INTERNATIONAL CHOIR FESTIVAL

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IJC - International Joint Concert Orchestra Japan

Il Florence International Choir Festival ha il piacere di presentare un evento straordinario. Un concerto di gala nella splendida Chiesa di Ognissanti che si terrà mercoledì 30 dicembre alle 20,30. Un concerto che vedrà impegnati tra solisti, coro e orchestra, , quasi 100 persone.
Il concerto nasce dalla collaborazione del Festival fiorentino con la International Joint Concert di Tokyo che ha portato a Firenze alcuni tra i migliori cori giapponesi tra cui l'Hokkaido Broadcasting Company Children's Choir di Sapporo che si è affermato nel 2013 come vincitore del David d'oro come miglior coro in assoluto nel nostro Festival.
L'orchestra che si esibisce stasera si è appositamente costituita per questo concerto ed è formata dai migliori giovani strumentisti, selezionati in numerose città del Giappone e da alcuni strumentisti provenienti da importanti orchestre fiorentine.
Il concerto è diviso in due parti, nella prima parte verrà eseguita una selezione del Messiah di Georg Friederich Händel, sul podio salirà Federico Bardazzi, apprezzato e rinomato musicista fiorentino, specialista di musica barocca. Nella seconda parte, diretta dal giapponese Masanori Kusakawa, verranno eseguite alcune tra le più celebri pagine del repertorio operistico italiano ed internazionale. Solisti saranno il noto basso-baritono fiorentino Leonardo Sagliocca, le giovanissime Adriana Gheorghisor, soprano, Antonia Fino, mezzosoprano e l'affermato tenore Angelo Fiore, già protagonista in importanti ruoli al Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago, al Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova e al Teatro Verdi di Pisa.
Il concerto è stato possibile grazie al solerte impegno di Yoshinori Kakinuma, responsabile della International Joint Concert di Tokyo e di tutto il Board del Florence International Choir Festival, formato  dal Presidente Federico Bardazzi, dal Direttore Artistico Leonardo Sagliocca e dalla General Manager Carla Zanin dalla pluriennale esperienza nella comunicazione e marketing di eventi culturali.
Il Florence International Choir Festival giunge quest'anno alla sua quinta edizione (20-22 luglio 2016); nelle sue prime 4 edizioni ha visto esibirsi, nei luoghi più affascinanti e suggestivi di Firenze, più di 100 cori dai 5 continenti. Due nuovi Festivals, il Music Festa Florence, dedicato ad orchestre e cori giovanili la cui seconda edizione si terrà dal 15 al 17 marzo e il Florence Advent Choir Festival, che vedrà la luce il prossimo dicembre 2016, daranno la possibilità al pubblico fiorentino di apprezzare sempre di più musiche, danze, costumi tradizionali da tutto il mondo.

The Florence International Choir Festival is pleased to present an extraordinary event. A gala concert in the beautiful Church of Ognissanti to be held on Wednesday,  30th December at 8.30 pm. A concert which will involve, between soloists, chorus and orchestra, almost 100 people.
The concert is a collaboration of the Florentine Festival with the International Joint Concert of Tokyo, which led to Florence some of the best Japanese choirs, including Hokkaido Broadcasting Company Children's Choir of Sapporo which was  winner of the Golden David as Best choir in our Festival in 2013.
The orchestra that performs tonight was set up specifically for this concert and is composed of the best young musicians, selected in several cities in Japan, and some musicians from major Florentine orchestras.
The concert is divided into two parts, in the first part will be performed a selection of the Messiah by Georg Friedrich Händel, on the podium will be Federico Bardazzi, appreciated and renowned Florentine musician, specialist in baroque music. In the second part, conducted by Japanese Masanori Kusakawa, will be performed some of the most famous pages of Italian and international operatic repertoire. Soloists will be the renowned Florentine bass-baritone Leonardo Sagliocca, the very young soprano and mezzosoprano Adriana Gheorghisor and Antonia Fino and the prominent tenor Angelo Fiore, who starred in major roles at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa.
The concert was made possible thanks to the diligent efforts of Yoshinori Kakinuma, head of the International Joint Concert of Tokyo and of all the Board of the Florence International Choir Festival, formed by President Federico Bardazzi, Artistic Director  Leonardo Sagliocca and General Manager Carla Zanin who has years experience in communication and marketing of cultural events.
The Florence International Choir Festival this year reaches its fifth edition (20-22 July 2016); in the first four years, more than 100 choirs from 5 continents performed in the Festival, in the most fascinating and suggestive venues of Florence. Two new festivals, the Music Festa Florence  dedicated to orchestras and choirs whose second edition will be held in March, from 15 to 17 and the Florence Advent Choir Festival, which will come out in December 2016, will enable the Florentine audience to appreciate more and more music, dance, traditional costumes from all over the world.

Ensemble San Felice
Ensemble Capriccio Armonico

Gianni Mini, maestro del coro
Adriana Gheorghisor, soprano
Antonia Fino, mezzosoprano
Angelo Fiore, tenor
Leonardo Sagliocca, bass

conductors
Federico Bardazzi (first part)
Masanori Kusakawa (second part)

CHIESA DI OGNISSANTI, FIRENZE
Concert
Wednesday 30th December 2015, 8.30 pm.

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Federico Bardazzi specialises in Early and Baroque Music, he is primarily active as a director in operatic repertoire, from its origins to Händel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini and Puccini.
Having trained as a cellist with Andrè Navarra in Siena and Paris, he studied chamber music with Piero Farulli and the Quartetto Borodin, composition with Carlo Prosperi e Roberto Becheri, Gregorian chant with Nino Albarosa and Johannes Berchmans Göschl, choral conducting with Roberto Gabbiani and Peter Phillips, orchestral conducting at the Accademia Chigiana with Myung-Whun Chung.
He conducts the Ensemble San Felice, a vocal and instrumental group whose repertoire ranges from Medieval to contemporary music, with whom he has performed to great acclaim across the world.

Devoted for many years now to the Bachian repertoire, through the Ensemble he has conducted all of the great Kirchenmusik and all of the instrumental concerts. He has conducted Händel's Messiah in numerous concerts in Italy and Europe.
He usually offers, as well as a new version of Mozart's unfinished Requiem, rare pages and masterpieces of seventeenth-century music: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Francesco Maria Stiava, Dietrich Buxtehude, Jeronimo de Carrion, François Couperin, Michel-Richard Delalande, John Dowland In 2005 in particular he presented three oratorios by Giacomo Carissimi at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London and, also in London, in May 2008 he conducted the music for the first staged performance in modern time of Händel's Rodrigo, directed by Luciano Alberti, at the Lufthansa festival of baroque music. This production was presented in 2009 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, where in 2011 he directed Claudio Monteverdi's Il Vespro for the Amici della Musica di Firenze, which was recorded as an audio CD by Brilliant Classic.
His research programmes in Medieval music have met with great success across Europe: Nigra sum sed formosa Cantigas de Santa Maria, La Sibilla del reno Hildegard von Bingen, the litergical drama drawn from Florentine codices Quem queritis, Francesco Landini Laudi e Contrafacta nella Firenze del Trecento, Musica per San Zanobi nella Firenze del Trecento. within this frame he is currently curating La musica della Commedia, an important work on the music of Dante Alighieri's masterpiece, which takes place through concerts, conferences and multimedia productions.
Federico Bardazzi has been the Director of the Maggio Fiorentino Formazione's courses from 2008 to 2014. In his role as training coordinator he has realised higher specialized training courses and projects funded by the European Social Fund. All his artistic and technical projects at the lyrical Theatre have been developed in collaboration with some of the main Tuscan musical institutions, such as: Teatro Verdi of Pisa, Festival Pucciniano of Torre del Lago, Teatro Metastasio of Prato, with which he is currently collaborating for other projects. This experience leads to the creation of Opera Network, originally funded together with Carla Zanin, whose objective is to assist in the development of lyrical productions, in collaboration between institutions of different natures, with the aim of encouraging and assisting young artists in the early stages of their careers in developing their professional profile and career path. Some of the most successful projects, all conducted by Federico Bardazzi, have been: Purcell's Fairy Queen (Teatro Goldoni, Florence 2013), Pergolesi's Flaminio (Teatro Verdi of Pisa 2014). Two forthcoming productions are: Alessandro Scarlatti's Il trionfo dell'Onore andGazzaniga's Don Giovanni (Teatro Verdi, Pisa 2015). Moreover, the season 2016/2017 will see Galuppi's opera in collaboration with Landestheater of Salzburg, under the direction of Carl Philip von Maldeghem.  
Federico Bardazzi is artistic direct of In-canto gregoriano - Incontri Internazionali di Firenze, a project devoted to the philological study and musical interpretation of the early liturgical repertoire, and member of the senior committee of AISCGre (Associazione Internazionale Studi di Canto Gregoriano). He is also President of the del Florence International Choir Festival, which, every year, brings together hundreds of choristers from all around the world, in a kermesse of high human and musical value.
Being aware of the high potential that the East represents for both the Italian University as well as for the Artistic and Musical Higher Education  system, he is the funder and leading member, within the project Turandot, in collaboration with the Università per Stranieri of Perugia, of a project of cultural, linguistic and musical training for Chinese students.
He has been giving courses on Gregorian chant and Medieval monody at the University of Florence and he has been invited all around the world to lead Masterclasses. 2014 has been a particularly fruitful year, whose highlight have been the World Symposium of Choral Music in Seoul and the Israel Choir Conductor Association in Jerusalem.
Recordings by the Ensemble San Felice – whose concerts have been transmitted by Rai, Swiss, German and Polish radio and the BBC, which has devoted one special on his performances – ranges from the Medieval to the operatic repertoire, and sees him not only in his role of conductor, but also of baroque cellist, gamba and fiddle player, for record labels such as Brilliant, Tactus, and Bongiovanni.
Federico Bardazzi is Professor of Chamber Music and Baroque Music at the State Conservatory Puccini of La Spezia.

Graduated from Tokyo College of Music Conducting Course. During his study in College, he was eager to study Opera conducting and after graduated he started to take not only Opera performing but also Choir and Orchestra concerts as well. He joined Fujiwara Opera Company and he studied Italian Opera in it. In 2000 he came to Italy, where he learned conducting from Danielle Ajimann. His debut as a professional Conductor was in La Traviata in Milan in 2001. He was invited by Arnold Mantovani Music Academy as House Conductor. In September 2001, he got 3rd prize at Mario Grasse International Conducting Competition. In 2005 he return back to Japan and afterwards he has conducting many orchestras, wind orchestras and choirs in Japan. Also, since 2006, he has again started to conduct Opera works in Japan.

Both graduated in violin and singing, Gianni Mini has played for the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, for the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina and many other orchestras. After an intese concert activity he started to dedicate himself to the singing: since 2001 he collaborated with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai, singing in the "Ruggero Maghini" choir, with "Athestis", "Ricercare Ensemble" and other choirs and groups of early music all over Italy.
He performed roles in operas by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Purcell and, thanks to his vocal qualities, his collaborations ranging from Händel oratorios to romantic symphonic repertoire linked to the biggest names of the nineteenth century such as Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Wagner. His repertoire does not exclude even earlier composers such as Monteverdi, Palestrina, De 'Cavalieri, Carissimi.
He collaborated with the Ensemble of University Choir of Florence, specializing in early music and Baroque. He founded, together with the association Capriccio Armonico, a singing group that performs Renaissance and Baroque concerts in prestigious venues such as Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
At the same time of classical studies, he has undertaken a study in vocal spirituals that inevitably led him to gospel, forming with Bob Singleton, Chanda Roule (gospel singer and choreographer in New York) and Cheryl Porter. The Gospel and ethnic music have always been part of his soul and hence the desire to establish and direct, since 1997, the choir "The Pilgrims"

LEONARDO SAGLIOCCA is an italian bass-baritone. He was born in Florence. After an audition with the world famous baritone Gino Bechi, he was encouraged by him to begin the Opera singing career and began singing studies in the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole under Elio Lippi, Donatella Debolini and Gianni Fabbrini. This school of music was founded by the world famous viola player of the "Quartetto Italiano", Piero Farulli.
After that, Leonardo Sagliocca continued his formation in the University of Music of Florence, the "Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini" under the scottish soprano Kate Lafferty Gamberucci.
At the age of 23 he was noticed by the world famous italian baritone Rolando Panerai who immediately invited him to join his class of international singers and engaged him for the operas "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" by Gioachino Rossini, "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi and "Gianni Schicchi" by Giacomo Puccini.
In 1996 he was invited also by the great baritone Leo Nucci to sing beside him in Verdi's "La Traviata" and to join his class.
Leonardo Sagliocca won the 1998 edition of international competition "William Walton - the actor-singer",sponsored by The Prince of Wales, Charles, which gave him the chance to improve his acting and singing talents with world famous artists like James Lockhart, Graziella Sciutti, Jonathan Papp (Royal Academy of Music, London), Harriet Lawson (Rossini Opera Festival), Corradina Caporello (Juillard School, New York) and perform the opera "Gianni Schicchi" by Giacomo Puccini in front of the Prince. During this Master Class Leonardo Sagliocca was invited for a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music of London.
Other peaks of his career:
In 1999 he was singing in the Dome of Genova (Genua,Italy) with the Orchestra of Teatro Carlo Felice, the main theater in Genua, under Herbert Handt.
The same year he was invited by the great specialist of Rossini's Operas, Luis Alva, to sing the role of Mustafa in the Opera "L'Italiana in Algeri" of G.Rossini in Lima, Peru.
Also in 1999 he was invited in Lucca by the american former tenor and conductor Herbert Handt to sing world premiere of works by eminent composers. The most famous one,winner of the Academy Award for his career, Ennio Morricone, author of many unforgettable soundtracks of famous movies like "Days of Heaven","The Mission","The Untouchables","Nuovo Cinema Paradiso". Ennio Morricone was present at the rehearsals and at the concerts,cooperating with Leonardo Sagliocca and the other musicians.
In 2005 Leonardo Sagliocca is invited at a very important season, The South Bank Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the season of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Following, a "resumé" of the entire career of Leonardo Sagliocca:
He began the soloist career in 1993 in Italy and all over the world, in the fields of symphonic, oratorial, operatic music and from the middle age music to the contemporary.
He performed as soloist with the following Associations and Musical Institutions: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence main theatre and one of the oldest Festivals of the world), Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto (Umbria), Sagra Musicale Umbra (Perugia), Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago (where Giacomo Puccini composed many of his masterpieces), Ravenna Festival (organized by the wife of the great italian conductor Riccardo Muti), Nuova Cappella di Palazzo (Lucca), Associazione Musicale Lucchese (Lucca), Amici della Musica Firenze (Florence), Centro Busoni (Empoli), Festival Internazionale di San Gimignano (San Gimignano,Siena), Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina (Florence), Centro Internazionale di Musica Antica (CIMA,Rome), Tuscia Opera Festival (Viterbo, Italy), Orchestra della Toscana (ORT,Florence), Estate Regina (Montecatini Terme), South Bank Centre (London Philharmonic Orchestra Festival, London), Jeszienny Salon Muszyczny, Szceczin (Poland), Musiksommer Loisachtal (Germany).
He performed together with world famous artists like: Gino Bechi, Rolando Panerai, Leo Nucci, Luis Alva, Gennaro Sica, Susanna Rigacci, Victor Micallef, Giorgio Casciarri, Duccio Dal Monte, Marina Comparato, Barbara Di Castri, Filippo Adami, Leonardo De Lisi, Alfie Boe etc.
He performed with the following conductors: Salvatore Accardo, Claudio Scimone, Alberto Veronesi, Lu Jia, James Lockhart, Massimo De Bernart, Jeffrey Tate, Vinko Globokar, Claudio Desderi, Filippo Maria Bressan, Herbert Handt, Alessandro Pinzauti, Marco Balderi, Jonathan Brandani, Elisabetta Maschio, Riccardo Cirri, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Federico Bardazzi, Fabio Neri, Riccardo Martinini, Sergio Siminovich, Marco Severi, Augusto Vismara, Giovan Battista Varoli, Piero Papini, Carlo Moreno Volpini, Franz Schottky etc.
He performed with the following directors: Paolo Miccichè, Luciano Alberti, Aldo Tarabella, Luca Ferraris, Riccardo Diana, Gennaro Sica, Graziella Sciutti etc.
He sang for the first time in the world works by Ennio Morricone, Luca Lombardi, Franco Mannino, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Riccardo Riccardi always in front of the composers and under their supervision.
He has also performed many recitals with piano players, small vocal groups, small orchestras and big orchestras in cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Munchen, Frankfurt, Koln, Kassel, Sczeczin, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Zurich, Lugano, New Zealand, Australia and regularly in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Niigata).
He is permanent member of high level Ensembles like the "Ensemble San Felice" of Florence,Italy, the "Nuova Cappella di Palazzo" of Lucca,Italy and the "Cappella Musicale di Santo Stefano" of Prato, Italy
He is co-founder of the "Ensemble San Felice", a vocal and instrumental group specialized in early music, with original instruments. Last year the Ensemble celebrated the 23rd season with titles as the "Six Brandenburg Concertos" of J.S. Bach, "Vespro della Beata Vergine" of C. Monteverdi, Haendel's "Messiah" and "The Fairy Queen" by H. Purcell.
He cooperated as talent scout, teacher and soloist singer with the "Maggio Fiorentino Formazione", the formation agency of the main theater in Florence and one of the more historical and important festivals in Italy, the "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino".
He recorded actually 8 cd's published and sold all over the world for the following labels (Tactus, Bongiovanni, Kicco Classic, Clavis, Brilliant Classics)
He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the "Florence International Choir Festival" and invited as member of the jury in important Festivals like The Singing World in Saint Petersburg, the Choral Festivals in Bratislava, the Credo Festival in Tallinn, the Nederlands Koor Festival in Haarlem, the Mozart Festival in Prague, the Juozas Naujalis Choir Festival in Kaunas, the Monteverdi Choral Competition in Venice.
He is also regularly invited as member of committee in official auditions.
He was invited, in August 2014, as lecturer in the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music in Seoul, South Korea.
In May 2015 has been invited for masterclasses on opera repertoire for soloists in China in very important institutions like Peking University (PKU), Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Peking and Xi'an Conservatory of Music (XACOM).
Leonardo Sagliocca is also the creator of the season "A Night at the Opera in Florence", Italian Opera & Baroque. Young talents and international acclaimed singers from all over the world.
Engagements in 2015 and 2016 includes: concerts, masterclasses and recordings and Juries in Slovenia, Austria, Latvia, Russia, Japan, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Lithuania, Poland, Ecuador, China

Adriana Gheorghisor was born on 06.06.1990.
She started to study opera music from an early age.At age 9 she began to study singing at The School of the Arts in her own city, with teacher Iuliana Cordie.Then she continued her musical studies at the Highscool of Music"Dinu Lipatti" in Bucarest, under the guidance of Cristina Magureanu and later at the Conservatorio di musica"Luigi Cherubini",in Florence,Italy.
She won many prizes at the National Competitions of Opera

Singing like:
-The I Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Emanuel
Elenescu"-Piatra-Neamt-2006
-The I Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Martian
Negrea"-Ploiesti-2007
-The III Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "George
Georgescu"-Tulcea 2007
-The II Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Miniatura
Romantica"-Galati 2007
-The II Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Paul
Constantinescu"-Ploiesti 2007
-The I Prize at the Contest "Mihai Eminescu"-Bucarest-2007
-The I Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Emanuel
Elenescu"-Piatra-Neamt 2008
-The I Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Miniatura
Romantica"-Galati-2008
-The I Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Miniatura
Romaneasca"-Galati-2008
-The III Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "George
Georgescu"-Tulcea-2008
-The III Prize at the Contest of musical interpretation "Martian
Negrea"-Ploiesti-2008
-The II Prize at the "Olympic Music Contest"- Barlad-2008
-The I Prize at the Contest "Mihai Eminescu"-Bucarest-2008
She sang in countries like Italy,Bulgary,Hungary and Great Britain.
At the Conservatorio, she sang in 2009 ,in the production of "Stabat Mater" by Pergolesi,in Florence ,with the conductor Paolo Ponziano Ciardi.
In 2011she sang the role of Lauretta in "Gianni Schicchi" by G.Puccini at the Teatro Garibaldi, Figline di Valdarno under the baton of Maestro Paolo Ponziano Ciardi,with the Orchestra of Conservatorio Cherubini.
In 2009 and 2010 participated at the masterclasses with M°Bruno Rigacci e M°Daniel Kotlinski, in 2012, to masterclasses with M°Roland Schubert and M° Susanna Kelling and in 2013 with Eva Marton and Rockwell Blake.
In the year 2012, she won a scholarship as a Soloist Soprano with the Choir of the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. Also, as a result after an audition, she won a collaboration with the Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,where worked with great directors like Zubin Mehta,Aldo Ceccato,Claudio Abbado,Daniele Gatti,Lorenzo Frattini,Andrea Battistoni.
She has achieved her Bachelor's Degree Diploma in 2011, with the highest marks, under the guidance of M° Marta Taddei, started her Master's Degree in M° Gianni Fabbrini's class, graduated in February 2014, also with the highest marks.
She sang the roles of Belinda in Dido and Aeneas and Second Fairy and The Plaint in The Fairy Queen of Purcell in production that taked place in Florence in various venues in 2013-2014.
In 2014 was a semi-finalist in Aslico, a international competition for opera singers, in Como, Italy.
Also was chosen to compete in the IVC Competition, in Holland, where she received a very good feedback from the members of the jury, including Kiri Te Kanawa and Kenneth Montgomery.
In the same year, responded to the invitation of the conductor Ladislao Petru Horvath, to be a soloist in Stabat Mater of Pergolesi in San Lorenzo Cathedral, Florence, Italy.
The concert included also Cantata 51 by Bach and Domine ad adjuvandum me Festina, by Pergolesi, a piece for soprano soloist, chorus and orchestra.
In 2015 had a collaboration with Transilvania Philarmonic from Cluj Napoca, Romania. With this occasion added to her repertoire the Mozart's Requiem.
In the same year she will participate to the International Florence Choir Festival, where she will sing the Messiah HWV 56 by G.F.Haendel with the directors Federico Bardazzi and Masanori Kusakawa.

Antonia Fino, italian young mezzosoprano/contralto, was born in 1989. She graduated in classical and opera singing at the Conservatory of music L.Cherubini of Florence, where now she is studying Vocal Chamber Music with M° Leonardo De Lisi. She made her debut as Sorceress in Dido&Aeneas (Purcell) and Carmen in La tragèdie de Carmen (Brook/Bizet) for the Conservatory Cherubini and also as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and Maestra delle Novizie in Puccini's Suor Angelica. She sang the Vivaldi's and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with M° Petru Ladislao Horvath, the Händel's Messiah, the Vivaldi's Magnificat, the Mozart's Requiem and Krönungsmesse with conductor M° Mazzoli (for the preview of Lucca Classica Festival 2015, at the Teatro del Giglio), the Haydn's Missa in Tempore Belli for the 40° CIDA of Montepulciano and, lately, the Vivaldi's Gloria, with conductor M° Puccianti.

Angelo Fiore was born in 1984 in Palermo. He studied piano and singing, graduating brilliantly at the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence. Later he studied with Mirella Freni and Bruna Baglioni.

In 2013 he performed the role of Cassio in Otello at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

In 2014 he won the competition Maria Quinteri for the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, premiered in December at Teatro Rendano of Cosenza, he was also winner of the Audience Award. In addition, he received the First Prize Michelangelo Cupisti at Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago as best young talent of Italian opera.

2015: Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) at the Luglio Musicale Trapanese; Fritz Cobus debut in L'amico Fritz in Piacenza; Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno; Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) at the Teatro Sociale in Mantova.

In 2016 L'amico Fritz in Ravenna and Modena; Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) in Aarhus and Copenhagen.

At the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago he debuted the role of the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and the role of Pinkerton in Junior Butterfly, contemporary opera composed by Shigeaki Saegusa, that he will also perform in Japan in 2016.

He has participated in numerous recitals and concerts in Italy and abroad, including at the Fondazione Luciano Pavarotti, the Foundation Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and the Orchestra della Toscana debut with Verdi's Requiem in Florence.

Among the debuted roles: Alfredo (La Traviata), Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Riccardo (Un Ballo in Maschera), Cassio (Otello), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly).

The vocal ensemble Capriccio Armonico was established in 2006 under the guidance of Master Gianni Mini. Composed of artists and scholars of music and singing, they started the deepening of Renaissance and profane Baroque and then continued with the sacred music, offering performances by Claudio Monteverdi, A. Caldara, M. Charpentier, Lotti, Vivaldi and D. Buxtehude ranging from madrigals and motets, from Baroque operas to oratorios presenting them suggestive venues such as the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
In recent years it has intensified the concert activity, flanking the study of Renaissance and Baroque music to music from the classical, romantic and contemporary period too. He has carried out interesting collaborations with other formations such as the Corale Santa Cecilia of Borgo San Lorenzo, with which in 2011 was performed Bach's Magnificat and the Miserere by Bartolucci (in the presence of the author); in 2013 they performed the Mozart Requiem in collaboration with the Coro Città di Firenze; with them, they also performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence a program of arias of Italian opera tradition accompanied by the Florence Symphonietta. By training the female ensemble, Capriccio Armonico has performed in numerous and applauded concerts, the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi. In April 2014, the Ensemble presented the Petite Messe Solennelle receiving unanimous acclaim from both audiences and critics. In July 2014 they performed Mozart's Requiem at the event "Terre d'Arezzo", under the artistic direction of Maestro Andrea Trovato and has revived the Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini.
He performed in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence the Mass in D major KV 194 by Mozart under the baton of Maestro Mario Ruffini, on the occasion of the solemn celebrations for the inauguration of the new year in 2015 at the presence of the Cardinal G. Betori.
In the course of 2015 they started a fruitful collaboration with Maestro Federico Bardazzi and Samuele Lastrucci, under whose direction they performed the "Messiah" by Händel, together with the Ensemble San Felice, during the Da Vinci Baroque Festival.

International Joint Concert Organizing Committee organised a Symphony Orchestra which has been touring to EU countries evey year on late December to share the music with local music friends since 200. So far they toured to Hamburg, Dresden, Luneburg in Germany, Vienna, New York, Stockholm. At early stage of their history since last 9 years, they performed Beetoven's 9th Symphony to celebrate the New Year, but recently they performed also other works like Orff's Carmina Burana and other pieces. This year, for the first time, they will perform Händel's Messiah and Italian Opera works, a very special and interesting challenge.