The Orchestra Mozart Academy (Italian: Accademia dell'Orchestra Mozart) is an Italian

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based in Bologna.

Creation

The orchestra was created in 2004 by Claudio Abbado as a special project for young musicians within the Regia Accademia Filarmonica (Philharmonic Academy) of Bologna and managed by

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and Caterina Coretti. The orchestra gave several concerts in Italy and abroad.

Composition

The orchestra is basically a chamber orchestra. However, the number of musicians sometimes exceed this format: in the concert performed on May 9, 2010 in the Church of the Holy Cross, Augsburg, the orchestra played

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and Gibelli – conducted by Boris Schaefer – with trumpets, timpani, choir and soloists . The orchestra acts as a meeting-place for young musicians from many countries, selected every 2–3 years by experienced musicians like the violinists

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and Gisella Curtolo, Raphael Christ, Cristiano Rossi, the viola player Danusha Waskiewicz, the cello players , Walter Vestidello, Gabriele Geminiani, the double-bass players Alois Posch, Lutz Schumacher, the flautists Jacques Zoon and Andrea Oliva, the oboist

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, the clarinet player

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, and many others.

Conductors and soloists

Orchestra Mozart Academy was conducted, among the others, by Boris Schaefer,

, Sergej Krylov,

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, Jacques Zoon,

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, Enrico Bronzi,

and many others.

Recordings

The orchestra conducted by Enrico Bronzi is featured on a CD edited by Italian musical review Amadeus with music of C. P. E. Bach Performed on May 9, 2010 in the Church of the Holy Cross, Augsburg, and recorded by Radio Bavaria, Munich (BR) with Christiane Karg (soprano), Angela Brower (alto), Andreas Post (tenor), Günter Papendell (bass), the Augsburg Cathedral Boy Choir and the Accademia dell'Orchestra Mozart; conductor: Boris Schäfer

References

External links

* {{Authority control Italian orchestras 2004 establishments in Italy Musical groups established in 2004 Bologna Mozart music ensembles