- Marina Piccinini
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Marina Piccinini (born 1968) is an Italian American virtuoso flautist. She is noted for her performances of compositions by Mozart and Bach,[1] and has performed with many of the world's top orchestras and conductors.[2]
Biography
Piccinini was born to an Italian father and a Brazilian mother.[3] Piccinini became interested in the operas of Mozart as a young girl at the age of 7, and began playing the flute at the age of 10.[3] She grew up in Newfoundland, Canada and did not have formal flute lessons from a teacher until she was 16.[3] In Toronto, she won First Prize in the CBC Young Performers Competition.[3] She later moved to New York City to commence studying at the prestigious Juilliard School and won First Prize in New York’s Concert Artists Guild International Competition.[3][4] She was awarded a scholarship by the Concert Artists Guild in 1986,[5] winning First Prize in their international competition. In 1991, she became the first flutist to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant from the Lincoln Center.[4] and was named Young Artist to watch by Musical America. She has studied under mentors such as Jeanne Baxtresser, Julius Baker.and Aurele Nicolet.[3]
Piccinini has performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Hanover Symphony Orchestra and many others throughout the United States.[2] She has worked with such conductors as Alan Gilbert, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Peter Oundjian, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Myung-whun Chung, and Gianandrea Noseda.[4]
Piccinini has performed at New York’s Town Hall, London’s Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall, the Weill Recital Hall and Zankell Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and at the Mozart Saal in Vienna's Konzerthaus.[4] She is a regular performer in Japan. She has collaborated with the pianist Mitsuko Uchida and numerous string quartets (such as Tokyo,[6] Brentano, Mendelssohn, and Takács quartets[2]) and has performed at the Casals Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo and at the Saito Kinen Festival.[2] Piccinini is also a frequent guest at the Marlboro Festival in Vermont, as well as at other summer festivals, many within Austria (Salzburg Festival, Mondsee festival) and Italy (Spoleto Festival) and Germany (Rheingau Musik Festival, Moritzburg Festival, Augsburg Festival) to celebrate the works of Mozart and others.[4]
In September, 2001, Piccinini joined the faculty of the Peabody Institute and has made a name for herself as a teacher of flute.[4] Piccinini is married to the pianist Andreas Haefliger; the pair have performed and recorded together, notably as part of the Carmina Quartet, including Haefliger, Piccinini, Wolfgang Holzmair and Matthias Goerne.[4] Piccinin was performing with husband Haefliger at least as far back as 1992, when they put on a performance together on January 31, 1992 at the Sherwood Auditorium of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.[7] Piccinini permanently lived in New York City until 2002 when she relocated to Austria after being traumatized by the September 11 terrorist attacks, but still maintains a home in New York City.[3][4] Piccinini has also requested flute concerto compositions from composers such as Paquito D'Rivera, notably The Bel Air Concerto[8] Michael Colgrass (The Wild riot of the Shaman's Dreams (solo flute) , A Flute in the Kingdom of Drums and Bells (flute and percussion quartet) and Crossworlds (Concerto for flute and piano), Matthew Hindson (House Music) and others.
In 2010 she is scheduled to release an album recording of the Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach in collaboration with the Brasil Guitar Duo,[4] who also won a scholarship at the Concert Artists Guild twenty years after Piccinini.[5]
References
- ^ Highstein, Ellen (1991). Making music in looking glass land: a guide to survival and business skills for the classical performer. Concert Artists Guild. pp. 40–41. ISBN 0962907502.
- ^ a b c d "Marina Piccinini". Avie Records. http://www.avie-records.com/artist_detail.php?id=75. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g Smith, Tim (February 25, 2007). "Gifted flutist and teacher to perform in two concerts". Baltimore Sun. http://www.colbertartists.com/Reviews/PiccininiProfile022507.pdf. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Marina Piccinini Biography". Peabody Institute. http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/1805. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ^ a b "Past Winners". Concert Artists Guild. http://www.concertartists.org/alumni-competition-winners.htm. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ^ New York Magazine'Vol. 27, No. 27. New York Media, LLC. 11 Jul 1994. ISBN 0028-7369.
- ^ San Diego Magazine, Volume 45. San Diego Magazine Pub. Co. 1992. p. 16. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KBMkAQAAIAAJ&q=Marina+Piccinini&dq=Marina+Piccinini&hl=en&ei=EbT-S-GVFJT-mQO5kd2ODA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBQ.
- ^ D'Rivera, Paquito; Stavans, Ilan (2005). My Sax Life: A Memoir. Northwestern University Press. p. 319. ISBN 0810122189. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kLUaodRMn_kC&pg=PA319&dq=Marina+Piccinini&hl=en&ei=A7X-S5J0ktyaA93asa0M&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Marina%20Piccinini&f=false.
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- 1968 births
- American people of Italian descent
- American people of Brazilian descent
- Living people
- American expatriates in Austria
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Juilliard School alumni
- Canadian flautists
- Canadian emigrants to the United States
- Peabody Institute faculty
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