04 December 2008
Newsdesk
Teatru Manoel in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Malta presents oboeist Diego Dini Ciacci in the next chamber music recital at the Manoel Theatre on December 2, 2008. He was accompanied on piano by his brother Maurizio Dini Ciacci.
The recital will consist of sonatas for oboe and piano by Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns and Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré’s Siciliana for oboe and piano, G. Gariboldi’s Fantasia on La Traviata for oboe and piano and Mozart’s Rondo in D for piano solo.
Diego Dini Ciacci graduated with honours at just 16 and started his career in 1983 as principal oboist with the orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala. In 1986 he decided to embark on a solo career which has made him one of the leading Italian oboists of our time.
He has performed with major orchestras all over the world and has appeared at several festivals such as the WienModern, Salzburg, Alicante, Strasbourg, Geneva, Lucerne, Zurich, New York and Boston. He has collaborated with leading musicians like Heinz Holliger, Michele Campanella, V. Mendelssohn, E. Bour and the late Luciano Berio who pronounced him as one of the best performers of his works.
He teaches at Milan’s Conservatory of Music and regularly gives Master Classes at Salzburg’s Mozarteum, in Koblenz, Beijing and Havana. He is also a busy conductor in Italy. Diego Dini Ciacci is also principal conductor of the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia.
In 2009 he will be releasing 3 oboe concerti by Mozart’s favourite oboist Ferlendis and Wolf-Ferrari’s concertos for oboe and English horn. Both will be released on the CPO label. He will also be recording a number of Bellini’s youthful Sinfonie as well as a premiere recording of Cambini’s Sinfonie Concertanti for oboe and bassoon with the Orchestra di Padova.
Maurizio Dini Ciacci, like his brother Diego, also very closely collaborated with Luciano Berio. He graduated in piano, composition and conducting after studying in Italy and Germany and is active in all three fields. He has conducted orchestras like Rai-Roma, Naples, at Venice’s La Fenice, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with the Orchestra della Toscana, the Haydn Orchestra of Trento and Bolzano, the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia. He has also appeared in Paris, Brussels, Liège, Reykjavik, Strasbourg, Sofia and Tokyo and collaborated with well-known performers such as Stefan Vegh, Barry Tuckwell, Bruno Canino and the London Voices.
