CANTORI VENEZIANI
Cantori Veneziani are active in Venice in choral music field since more than 30 years. In 1973 in fact Davide Liani and Mara Bortolato met each other: the first came from a long experience abroad, even his active taking part with the International Kodály Society. From their common intuition in order to cover a lack of musical offer were born first Piccoli Cantori Veneziani and then (1974) Cantori Veneziani. Since their first performance those groups have obtained concern attracting children, young people, students, belonging to the centre of Venice, but also from the neighbourhood in order to live a great musical experience based on the principle of “learn doing”. First under the guide of Liani, who gave an important “footprint” on music education and on the choose of the repertoire, then with other teachers (Morena D’Este, Pierangelo Conte, Mario Merigo, Giuseppe Zambon and Mara Bortolato), the choir became popular as an important musical reality in Venice. During years the repertoire has moved from polyphony to contemporary authors with an intense concert activity, participating to important events. Cantori Veneziani have recorded a CD of chants from the Russian orthodox liturgy, one based on texts by Jacques Prevert and Ezra Pound, and the others on the Christmas Mass and on the Easter Oratory by Liani. Nowadays the choir is directed by Diana D’Alessio.
DIANA D’ALESSIO, direttore
Got a diploma in piano with Ezio Mabilia at the Venice “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory in 1996, Diana D’Alessio studied choral direction, attending courses of perfection, conducted by Claudio Gavazza, Péter Erdei, Peter Philips, Michele Peguri, Filippo Maria Bressan, Marco Berrini, Lorenzo Donati and Georg Grun. In 2008 she got the Diploma in Choral Music and Direction of Choir and she graduated cum laude in Choral Direction at the Adria “Aldo Buzzolla” Conservatory under the guide of Michele Peguri. At the same time she is interested in the field of musical pedagogy, attending two editions of the summer seminar at Zoltán Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, where she got in 2003 the diploma cum laude as a grant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After that she spread the Kodály Method in Italy as a referent for the Hungarian Institute and a member of AIKEM committee. The analysis of kodálian thinking was also subject of her Language and Literature’s thesis, got at the University of Padova in 2005. From 1998 she works with the prestigious Teatro La Fenice, first as a piano accompanist and substitute teacher of Mara Bortolato, then, since 2008 as choir director of Piccoli Cantori Veneziani for all lyric and symphonic productions. Since 2008 she also conducts the mixed choir Cantori Veneziani. She works with venetian schools on choral chant projects and education to music. She has founded and she is president of Associazione Musicale Idemsentire in order to spread choral music. Inside the association she conducts Coro Femminile Látomás, specialized on Nineteenth century repertoire.
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