{"id":2183,"date":"2022-03-18T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/new?post_type=speaker&p=2183"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:09:55","slug":"francesco-manara","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/performers\/francesco-manara","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Manara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francesco Manara attended the \u201cG. Verdi<\/span><\/em>\u201d Conservatory in Turin where in 1990 he graduated under the guidance of M. Marin with top marks. Later, the \u201cDe Sono Associazione per la Musica\u201d awarded him a scholarship, thanks to which he studied with G .Prencipe, F. Gulli, R. Ricci, S. Gheorghiu and in Amsterdam with H. Krebbers. He went into duo violin-piano repertoire with F. Gulli\/E. Cavallo and with P. Amoyal\/A. Weissenberg. He graduated at the Scuola Superiore di Musica da Camera del Trio in Trieste, even in Trio formation.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1992 Riccardo Muti selected him as Prinicipal Solo Violin at the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In this role he collaborated with the greatest conductors at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was also invited to play with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia as Prinicipal Solo Violin, then with the Bayerische Staatsoper Orchester of Munich and the Royal Concertgebauw Orchestra of Amsterdam.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was awarded with numerous international competitions, including \u201cMichelangelo Abbado<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Sondrio (First Prize), \u201cJ. Joachim<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Hannover, \u201cA. Stradivari<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Cremona, \u201cL. Spohr<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Freiburg, \u201cDong-A<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Seoul, \u201cARD<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Munich, \u201cTchaikovsky<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Moscow (Special Prize), \u201cPaganini Prize<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Genoa (Special Prize), CIEM in Geneva (First Prize).<\/span><\/p>\n

The success in these competitions soon led him to a brilliant soloist career that saw him perform with about a hundred orchestras including the Suisse Romande Orchestra, Bayrische Runfunk of Munich, Stuttgart Radio, Hannover Radio, Wiener Kammerorchester, Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and, on several occasions, the Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1998 he made his debut at the Lincoln Center in New York with Beethoven\u2019s Concerto op.61.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 2011 season he was invited to the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra to play the Tchaikovsky concert in London.<\/span><\/p>\n

His repertoire, which ranges from Bach to contemporary composers, also includes Paganini\u2019s 24 Capricci, performed entirely several times, and all of Bach\u2019s Sonatas and Partitas.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto he recorded the Concerto by B. Compagnoli (Dynamic), with the Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Muti the Symphony Concertante by Mozart (Sony) with the violist Danilo Rossi and with the Cameristi della Scala the 8 Seasons by Vivaldi\/Piazzolla for Musicom. He also made recordings for Radio Monaco, for Radio France and for Suisse Romande.<\/span><\/p>\n

Francesco Manara is the founder of the \u201cJohannes Trio<\/span><\/em>\u201c. With them he recorded the complete Brahms piano trios and quartets (for the \u201cAmadeus<\/span><\/em>\u201d magazine) and the \u201cArchduke Trio<\/span><\/em>\u201d by Beethoven. This chamber ensemble was awarded at the Trio International Chamber Music Competition in Trieste and at the Osaka Chamber Music Competition and was the winner of the \u201cConcert Artists Guild Competition<\/span><\/em>\u201d in New York. In 2002 the trio debuted at New York\u2019s prestigious Carnegie Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2001 he has also been Principal Violin of the \u201cQuartetto d\u2019Archi della Scala\u201d. With them he has performed in Italy, South America, Japan, United States, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria (Mozarteum in Salzburg) and has made recordings for Fon\u00e8 Records with music by Verdi, for the \u201cAmadeus\u201d magazine, for the Decca and Concerto labels (Naxos).<\/span><\/p>\n

He is a violin teacher at the Accademia della Scala and he was invited to give master classes at the Manhattan School in New York, Japan, South America. He has taught professional qualification courses for orchestra at the Fiesole School of Music and the Experimental Laboratory of Spoleto and violin courses at the Istituto Superiore di Musica\u201dL. Perosi\u201d in Biella, at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento in Portogruaro, at the \u201cMusica Riva Festival<\/span><\/em>\u201c, at the Scuola di Musica in Milan and at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has collaborated as a teacher with numerous Italian Conservatories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Francesco Manara is a jury member in prestigious international competitions such as the \u201cRomanini<\/span><\/em>\u201d Competition in Brescia, the \u201cPaganini Award<\/span><\/em>\u201d in Genoa and the \u201cJoachim<\/span><\/em>\u201d Competition in Hanover.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Strad<\/span><\/em>\u201c, the UK famous magazine, has reviewed him several times and defined him as \u201can artist of considerable sincerity and depth, ready to face the most important theater stages around the world<\/span><\/strong>\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n

He plays a Giovanbattista Guadagnini from 1773.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Francesco Manara attended the \u201cG. Verdi\u201d Conservatory in Turin where in 1990 he graduated under the guidance of M. Marin with top marks. Later, the \u201cDe Sono Associazione per la Musica\u201d awarded him a scholarship, thanks to which he studied with G…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"speaker-category":[54],"speaker-tags":[],"location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2183\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-category?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"speaker-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-tags?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}