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MASSIMO MERCELLI gained his diploma from the Conservatorio G.B. Martini
of Bologna with the highest marks at a very early age. Mercelli, a student
of the famous flautists Maxence Larrieu and André Jaunet, at the age of 19
became the first flute of the Teatro La Fenice of Venice and won the
‘Francesco Cilea Prize’, the International Competition ‘Giornate Musicali’
and the Stresa International Competition. He plays regularly in the most
important concert halls of the world: Carnegie Hall in New York,
Herculessaal and Gasteig in Munich, Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires,
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Auditorium RAI in Turin, Victoria Hall in
Geneva, Saint Martin in the Fields and Wigmore Hall in London, Parco della
Musica in Rome, Philharmonic S. Petersburg, Philarmonica in Warsaw,
Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and at the festivals of Ljubljana, Berlin,
Santander, Vilnius, S. Petersburg, Bonn, Cervantino, Rheingau, Jerusalem
and Warsaw. He performs with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Krzysztof
Penderecki, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Massimo Quarta, Ennio Morricone,
Luis Bacalov, Peter-Lukas Graf, Maxence Larrieu, Aurèle Nicolet, Anna
Caterina Antonacci, Ramin Bahrami, Albrecht Mayer, Gabor Boldowsky, Jiri
Belolhavec, Federico Mondelci, Jan Latham Koenig, Catherine Spaak,
Susanna Mildonian, and with orchestras such as the Moscow Soloists, the
Wiener Symphoniker, the Solisti della Scala, the Prague Philarmonia, the S.
Petersburg Philharmonic, the Virtuosi Italiani, the Salzburg Soloists, the
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the F.Liszt Chamber Orchestra and the Musici.
He is the artistic director and founder of the Emilia Romagna Festival and
since 2001 has been a member of the directing committee of the European
Festivals Association (EFA) and in April 2011 he was elected as vice
president of this prestigious European association.
He played in the first performance of ‘Facades’ by Philip Glass accompanied
by the composer on the pianoforte, he has performed at the Grande Sala of
the Mozarteum of Salisburg and has held a masterclass for the Rostropovich
Foundation. On 11th September 2006 he played at the UNO Auditorium in
New York. During the 2008 season he performed at the Berlin Philharmonic
during the official season and at the Moscow Philharmonic in a Galà with
Yuri Bashmet and Gidon Kremer. In August 2008 as a soloist in the premier
of Ennio Morricone’s Cantata ‘Vuoto di Anima Piena’ directed by the
composer himself and at the Warsaw Philharmonic he participated in the
festival celebrating Krzysztof Penderecki’ 75th birthday. During the 2009/10
season he played at the MITO Festival of Milan, the Prague National Theatre
with Denise Graves, in China with Luis Bacalov at the Shanghai Expo and
performed the world premier of the concert for flute and orchestra by
Michael Numan dedicated to him. In January 2011 he performed at the
Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow under the direction of Yuri Bashmet performing
‘Contrafactus’ by Giovanni Sollima, dedicated to him and played at the
MusikVerein in Vienna. In 2012 he played in Russia, China, Europe and
South America in important concert halls such as The Philharmonic of
Vilnius and Prague.
In September 2012 the CD ‘Massimo Mercelli plays Philip Glass’ came out,
with the integral music for flute by Philip Glass edited from ‘Orange
Mountain Record’. Massimo Mercelli has been a member of the juries for
the following international competitions:
International Competition of Geneva; Concours de Flute Jean-Pierre Rampal
- Concours Internationaux de la Ville de Paris, Concert Artist Guild of New
York (USA), Fischoff Chamber Music Competition of South Bend (USA)
Beijing Flute Competition (China). As a very much appreciated teacher, he
has held Masterclasses and lectures at: Oslo Norges Musikkhogskole
(Norway), Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Finland), Cleveland Institute of
Music (USA), Akron University (USA), Trinity College of Music (UK), Mannes
School of New York (USA), Singapore Conservatory (Singapore), Oberlin
Conservatory
(USA),
Bangkok
University
(Thailand),
North
Carolina
University (USA), Universitad of Santiago (Chile), Taiwan University
(Taiwan), Matan Project – Tel Aviv (Isreal) and Rostropovich Foundation
(Vilnius, Lithuania).
Among his latest commitments of particular importance are: the recording
of the J.S. Bach’s sonatas with Ramin Bahrami under the DECCA label, the
world premier of Sofia Gubaidulina’s new concert, dedicated to him, his
participation in the concert for the celebration of Krysztoff Penderecki’s
80th birthday at the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Sinfonietta for Flute and
Strings, an exclusively performed piece, as well as his participation in the
concert ‘Viva Italia’ as part of the International Winter Arts Festival of
Sochi and the cultural programme of the Olympic games.
For his promotional activity in the music field he has received awards twice
from the European Commissariat for Culture JAN FIGEL and from the French
vice minister of Culture (Prague University and Pompidou Centre, Paris).
February 2012
Massimo Mercelli, flautist
Emilia Romagna Festival Artistic Director
Vice President European Festival Association