Lorenzo Micheli

Lorenzo

Date & Ticket

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024
7:30 PM, CARLSON THEATRE

Lorenzo Micheli has taken up a busy concert career throughout the world since winning the first prize in some of the most prestigious international guitar competitions (Alessandria, “Guitar Foundation of America”). He has played more than 600 concerts all over Europe, in two hundred US and Canadian cities, in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America, as a soloist and with orchestra. Since 2002 he has been performing worldwide in duo with Matteo Mela – under the name of “SoloDuo” – in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Seoul’s Sejong Hall, Kiev’s Hall of Columns and Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Their duo was welcomed by “The Washington Post” as “extraordinarily sensitive – nothing less than rapturous”.

His discography (more than 20 titles on the labels Naxos, Stradivarius, Pomegranate, Soundset and Amadeus) includes the music of Dionisio Aguado, the Quartets, op. 19, by François de Fossa, the Sonatas by Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay, a CD of 17th Century Italian music for baroque guitar, archlute and theorbo, a collection of Arias and Cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, the complete guitar Concertos and the 24 Preludes and Fugues for two guitars by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a double CD of chamber masterpieces by Mauro Giuliani, the complete guitar works of Miguel Llobet, Antoine de Lhoyer’s Duos Concertants, three anthologies of music for two guitars (“Noesis”, “Solaria” and “Metamorphoses”), and the album “Morning in Iowa” (with David Knopfler). His latest recording, “Autumn of the Soul”, was released by Contrastes Records.

A very active editor and researcher, he has published solo and chamber works with guitar by such composers as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ferdinand Rebay. He is in charge of a collection of music for two guitars for the Canadian publisher “Les Productions d’Oz”.

Lorenzo lives in Milan, Italy, where he studied Greek and Latin literature at the University. He teaches at the University School of Music in Lugano, Switzerland, and he is Artist in Residence at both the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. In addition, he serves as guest faculty at the “Universidad Pedro de Olavide” in Sevilla, Spain, and the Conservatorio “A. Boito” in Parma, Italy.

Program

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Caprichos de Goya op. 195
XII. No hubo remedio
XV. Porqué no fue sensible
XIII. Quién más rendido?

Mauro Giuliani, Grandi Variazioni op. 114

Francesco Morittu, S’acabbadòra
I. Presagio
II. Sa mazzòcca
III. Sonus ‘e memoria
IV. Danza de is animas bias

Frédéric Chopin, 3 Preludes from op. 28 
(Guitar version by Francisco Tárrega)

Three Night Visions for guitar:
Franz Schubert, Der Tod und das Mädchen
W.A. Mozart, Wiegenlied 
Claude Debussy, Minstrels

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Rondo op. 129