Biography
Carlo Piazza studied
with Maestro Arnold Östman, considered one of the greatest
interpreters of Mozart. Having graduated in Conducting,
Composition and Violin at the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory in
Parma, Maestro Piazza began his conducting career at a very early
age and has conducted concerts and operas in prestigious theatres
both in Italy and abroad.
In 1994 he was accepted on a course for young conductors organised
by the Emilia Romagna Region in collaboration with the European
Union at the “Gianandrea Gavazzeni” Academy, which he completed
with the best assessment.
He has worked with artists such as the operatic bass Michele
Pertusi (with whom he has also recorded a CD), the soprano
Annamaria Dell’Oste, Bin Huang (violinist winner of the 1994
international “Niccolò Paganini” competition in Genoa), the
pianists Maurizio Baglini and Maria Tretyakova, Christoph Hartmann
(oboist of the Berliner Philharmoniker), Federico Guglielmo
(concertmaster and conductor of “L'Arte dell'Arco”), Alberto
Miodini, Ivan Rabaglia and Enrico Bronzi (members of the “Trio di
Parma”).
He collaborates with various orchestral groups and important
musical institutions, including the Orchestra of the Regio Theatre
(Parma), the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, Gli Archi Italiani, the
“Gian Francesco Malipiero” Philharmonic Orchestra of Veneto
Region, the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, the “Arturo Toscanini”
Symphony Orchestra of Emilia Romagna Region, The “Accademici de La
Fenice” Orchestra (Venice), the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto,
the Filarmonici del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the “Giuseppe
Verdi” Symphony Orchestra (Milan), the Virtuosi of La Scala
(Milan), the “Camerata RCO” - Members of the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra (Amsterdam) and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Of the operas he has conducted we remember particularly Gluck’s Orfeo
ed Euridice, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Don
Giovanni, Così fan Tutte and La Clemenza di Tito,
Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Il Signor
Bruschino (featuring Michele Pertusi) and Il Barbiere di
Siviglia (at Le Théatre de Nîmes and Le Théatre National de
Narbonne).
He has also assisted Maestro Arnold Östman prepare operas and
concerts in Vienna, Stockholm, Trieste, Verona, Venice, Genoa and
Ferrara (with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra) and has collaborated
with the “Symphonica Toscanini” preparing symphonic programmes for
Maestro Lorin Maazel in Italy and abroad.
He is the artistic director of the “Festival di Torrechiara Renata
Tebaldi”, which takes place in the wonderful fourteenth century
castle near Parma and boasts the participation of the
internationally famous artists such as the operatic bass Michele
Pertusi, the violinist Sergej Krylov, the Virtuosi of La Scala
(Milan), Concentus Musicus Wien, European Union
Chamber Orchestra, Europa Galante, Philadelphia
Youth Orchestra, Cameristi del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Camerata
RCO - Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
(Amsterdam), Ensemble Berlin - Soloists of the Berlin
Philharmonic and many others.
The Publishing house “L’Oca del Cairo” has published three
compositions of his: Rapsodia per violino e pianoforte, Recitativo
e aria su testo di Metastasio for soprano and orchestra and
Variazioni per orchestra sulla Marcia dei Sacerdoti dal Flauto
Magico.
