Trio di Fiesole, Piero Farulli, Franco Petracchi
Biography Trio di Fiesole, Piero Farulli, Franco Petracchi
Trio di Fiesole
is a chamber-music group, which from their artistic preparation and instrumental quality, have succeeded after only a few years in gaining a space in the world of concert. They have obtained numerous and prestigious acknowledgments in reviews and competitions for chamber groups; one of which was the first prize of the 1975 Sergio Lorenzi Competition, awarded by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena, which was conferred on the three participants; the Diploma d'Onore for the School of chamber-music and first prize for the 1977 "V. Gui" Competition for chamber-music groups. The Trio di Fiesole has been active for more than ten years and has carried out an intense concertistic activity. In Italy, the group has been guest several times of the most important concertistic companies and lyrical organizations. Abroad they gained overwhelming ovation from the public and the critics at the Basel Stadtcasino; at the Hamburg Musikhalle; at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and in other European cities. The Trio di Fiesole has recorded two compact-disks, the first dedicated to Brahms' opera N.8 and the second to Schubert's opera N.100.
Piero Farulli
is a teacher and viola player of international fame. He was born at Florence in 1920. He completed his studies with GioacchinoMaglioni at the Luigi Cherubini State Conservatory in his own city, where he was a teacher of viola later from 1957 to 1977. For more than thirty years he was part of the QuartettoItaliano, contributing with intransigent faithful rigour to the success of this group, whose executions by now form part of the history of the world's great quartet interpretations. For this, he and his colleagues, received the most coveted acknowledgments; in particular, the gold medal for outstanding accomplishment for school, culture and art, awarded by the President of the Republic. Successively, he collaborated with the Amadeus Quartet, the Alban Berg Quartet, with the harpsichord player Daniel Chorzempaand also plays in fraternal collaboration with the Trio di Trieste. In 1984, together with the violinists Chiarappa and Tacchi, and the violoncellist Nannoni, he founded the Nuovo Quartetto. Qualified teacher of quartet at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena; also at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, he has been Gastprofessor at the SalisburgMozarteum for viola. He was several times member of commissions for international competitions such as the Quartet of the Prague Festival, the London Tertis, and the Moscow Ciaikowsky. His presence in Tuscany has considerably influenced many cultural initiatives in the sphere of music. He was ideator and artistic director of "I Concerti dellaNormale" for twenty years.
Franco Petracchi
gained his diploma at S. Cecilia in Rome with Battistelli, also dedicating himself to composition and as conductor of orchestra with Franco Ferrara. He held concerts in all the most important halls of the world. The critics consider him to be not only one of the greatest concertists of our time but also a virtuoso of his instrument. He is teacher of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena and regular teacher for the chair of "Virtuosismo" at Genevre Conservatory. He is also one of the founders of the Cremona "Stauffer" Courses and has held courses and "Master Class" in all the world. His Sermoneta course is famous. Many composers have dedicated their work to him. Amongst these: the works of Rota, Mortari and Donatoni have had particular success. He successfully carries out an intense activity as conductor. In fact, he has conducted in Denmark, Poland, Bulgary, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Sweden and in Italy at Rome; S. Cecilia, Rai, Filarmonica, the Rossini Festival at Pesaro, S. Carlo at Naples and the Rai at Turin. He has won the prize "Premio Italia" for the musical part for broadcasting "Un contrabbasso in cercad'amore" (A double-bass searching for love) and he is the author of numerous revisions and re-elaborations. He also carries out an intense chamber-music activity with the most prestigious names of the concert world (Festivals at Naples, Sarasota, Cremona). He plays in duo with Filippini and in trio with Stefanato - Barton. He has made recordings for Philips, Columbia and Dynamic.
