Music Concert: A Tribute to the Great Master ‘Federico Fellini’ on his 100th Birth Anniversary
You can’t think of Federico Fellini without Nino Rota coming to mind. The two names are inseparable in the films of the great director. Rota wrote all of the movie scores for Fellini’s films from The White Sheik in 1952 to Orchestra Rehearsal in 1978. For this reason today, to celebrate the great director on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we are presenting a concert of Rota’s compositions for Fellini’s films by the exceptional musicians Mauro Maur and Françoise de Clossey, friends of Fellini and his wife Masina, and great performers of Rota’s compositions.
ABOUT FRANÇOISE DE CLOSSEY
An enfant prodige who won her first important national competition at the age of 6, DE CLOSSEY started beinginvited by major North American festivals from a very young age. A distinguished Italian-Canadian performer, she was born in Montréal and has lived in Italy for many years. De Clossey has played with musicians like Ennio and Andrea Morricone, Riz Ortolani, S. Sciarrino, H.G. Gorecki, S.A. Gubaidulina, Gilberto Gil, the Paquito D’Rivera Orchestra and the musicians of the Metropolitan Opera of New York. She has performed at some of the most important concert halls in the world. Also active in the recording field, she has participated in numerous recordings for radio and television all over the world. De Clossey was a guest professor and representative of Italy at the prestigious Orchestra of the Americas. She signed an important recording contract for a series of recordings with Mauro Maur that was received very warmly by audiences and critics all over the world, highlighting the talent of these artists and the freshness and resonance of their performances.
ABOUT MAURO MAUR
He began playing the trumpet in Trieste, his hometown. He graduated very young and at the age of 16 he passed the admission exam to the National Superior Conservatory of Paris where he studied with Pierre Thibaud. While a student of the Conservatory, he won the audition for the first trumpet at the Toulouse National Orchestra (conducted by Michel Plasson), with whom he toured the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany and Italy. In 1985, he returned to Italy and won the First Trumpet Competition at the Rome Opera, the San Carlo Theater in Naples and the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. In addition to having performed, during his successful career, major works from the classical repertoire for trumpet, he was requested by the Union of Musicians of Rome to record hundreds of soundtracks by composers like Ennio Morricone, Mikis Theodorakis, Riz Ortolani, Jerry Goldsmith and Georges Delerue.
He collaborated for more than 18 years with Ennio Morricone, who dedicated many solos from his films to Mauro Maur as well as his concert for trumpet and orchestra, “Ut”.
The friendship that linked Mauro Maur to Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini led the soloist Mauro Maur to play at the funerals of both great artists. Giulietta Masina had left a letter in which she asked Mauro Maur, “her trumpet”, to play Nino Rota’s “Improvviso dell’Angelo” for her funeral.
As the First Trumpet at the Rome Opera House Orchestra from 1985 to 2010, he collaborated and recorded with prestigious groups such as the Paris Opera, the National Orchestra of France, Ars Nova, Les Solistes de France, the Ircam of Paris, the Budapest Chamber Orchestra and the New Italian Quartet.
About The Nini Rosso Memorial
Band
It was born to
honor the great musician who passed away 25 years ago, composer of “Il
Silenzio” (“The Silence”) and “La Ballata di una tromba” (“The Ballad
of a Trumpet”) among other famous compositions. Mauro Maur and the Nini Rosso
Band went on a very successful major concert tour in Japan, which culminated in
a concert at the Osaka Symphony Hall—their CD was sold out in two weeks. The
members are Manuel Figheli on the accordion, Tiziano Bole on the guitar,
Lorenzo Mancini on the bass and Daniele Chiusaroli on the drums. Guest star
Françoise de Clossey will be on the piano.