The Magic Flutes

Gottlieb Duo:

Tito Ciccarese, Flute

Pierluigi Di Tella, Piano

Special Guests:

Clarion Winds:

Ellen Fay (Flute), Katie Kelly (Alto Flute), Martha Knight (Flute), Katieanne Marsh (Flute), Tommy Mulligan (Flute), Tara O’Brien (Bass Flute), Jennifer O’Donovan (Flute and Piccolo)

“Die Zauberflöte” K 620, the last opera written by the Austrian composer, a great masterpiece, a fairy tale with many musical meanings and more…!

The Gottliebduo play this “singspiele” with only instruments (flute and piano), without singing in an arrangement where you can listen ouverture, arias, duet and other, as in the original composition; a chamber-style opera miniature where the two musicians of great international experience they are also the protagonists of the opera: Papageno, Tamino, Pamina, the Queen of the night..! There are no scenes, there are no protagonists but there are emotions in a crescendo of sensations, up to the grand finale, a wonderful escape theme… almost a “musical testament” of Amadeus!

Gottlieb Duo: The duo formed by musicians with a long experience performing together. After graduation, they both gained his artistic training with renowned masters (Massimo Neri, Sergio Fiorentino, William Bennett, Patrick Gallois, Jànos Balint, just to name a few) and there have been numerous awards won in various competitions in which they participated. As soloists and in various ensembles have performed in major festivals in Italy and abroad, also playing on a few occasions with famous musicians (Quartetto di Cremona, Alessandro Serra, Giuseppe Ettorre, Mikhail Pethukov, Bruno Canino, Claudio Marcotulli, Jànos Bàlint, Alessio Allegrini, Giorgio Mandolesi, etc..

The duo already has more than 100 concerts in major festivals with larger audience and critics: Invito alla Musica - Forlì, Rocca di Gradara, Amici della Musica Ferrara, Ravenna Alighieri Theater, Amici della Lirica Pistoia, Norway, Denmark, Aosta, Parma, Alpen Classic Festival Bressanone, London, Basilica di St. Antonio Padova, Perugia, etc..The duo, however, is not limited to the already heard and is also interested in unusually project: Biedermeier repertory, The magic flute - opera miniature by W.A.Mozart, Italian nineteenth century House Musik, Opera transcriptions, etc…There have been many collaborations with other musicians in other important festival: Notturni alle Conserve Cesenatico, Petrella Theater Longiano, Accademia Filarmonica Bologna, Amici della Musica Manfroce Palmi, Florence, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Mezzano Romantica, with Janos Balint, Giorgio Mandolesi, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Mario Marzi, Luca Provenzani, Guido Corti, Paolo Carlini, etc.

A truly eclectic flautist, over the course of his career Tito Ciccarese has cemented himself as a skilful chamber music performer, following the invaluable guidance of his mentor Guido Corti. Born in the Italian town of Cesena, Ciccarese began his studies with Professor Giovanni Gatti at his hometown’s conservatory, eventually graduating under Professor Maurizia Maraldi. He then went on to perfect his skills with top-tier flautists such as William Bennett, Auréle Nicolét, Patrick Gallois, and Jànos Bàlint. He has since founded many chamber ensembles, together with which he has performed most of the major compositions written for his musical instrument. His artistic endeavours have not been limited to what had already been seen or heard before – his innovative spirit has constantly urged him to explore original repertoires and experiment with singular instrumental line-ups, as he has demonstrated during more than 950 concerts performed in over 30 years. His inventiveness has also led him to initiate fruitful collaborations with living composers who have produced original pieces specifically written for Ciccarese and perfomed for the first time by him: Mario Pagotto, Marco Betta, Teresa Procaccini, Massimo Di Gesu, Alessandro Spazzoli, Paolo Pessina, Aurelio Scotto, Fabrizio Festa, and Stefano Nanni. Equally appreciated as a solo artist, over the course of his career he has been awarded a number of national and international accolades, and has performed alongside renowned musicians such as Claudio Marcotulli, Guido Corti, Alessio Allegrini, Jànos Balint, Mikhail Pethukov, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Cesare Chiacchiaretta, Scilla Cristiano, Mario Marzi, and Bruno Canino.

He has performed at major music institutes and events in Italy (Gioventù Musicale Italiana, A.GI.MUS., Ente Filarmonico per il Mezzogiorno, Tecne Italiana Musica, Associazione Mozart Italia, Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Società Filarmonica di Trento, A.M.A. Calabria, Associazione Amici della Musica ‘Manfroce’ in Palmi, Società Buzzolla in Adria, Assocazione Amici del Loggione of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Circolo Musicale Sondrio, Camerata Musicale Sulmonese, Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo, Matera, Ravello, Ischia, Capri, Amalfi, Siracusa, Concerti dell’Ateneo in Messina, Avellino, Florence, Turin, Sala Piatti in Bergamo, Siena, Pistoia, Grosseto, Macerata, Palazzo Campana in Osimo, Ravenna, Ferrara, Teatro Cinghio in Parma, Chiesa di Vivaldi in Venice, Perugia, the courtyard of the Capitoline Museums in Piazza del Campidoglio and the Sala Paolina of Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, Naples, Estate Teatrale Veronese, Rassegna Malipiero Asolo Musica, I Suoni del Tempo in Cesena, Petilia Festival in Pitigliano, Primavera Musicale Volterrana, Benevento Classica, Cilento in Musica, Velia Festival, Piemonte Musica, Festival di Bellagio e del Lago di Como, Todi Festival, Cagliari, Festival di Musica da Camera in Iglesias, Concerti d’Altamarca at the Associazione Quadrivium Conegliano, Contrada Larga in Trento, the Area Sismica and the Sadurano Serenade festivals in Forlì, Lecce, Brindisi Classica - Associazione Nino Rota, Festival Chitarristico Internazionale dello Ionio in Taranto, Alpen Classica Festival in Brixen, Alpi Sonanti in Sondrio, Mezzano Romantica), as well as in Austria (Salzburg), Switzerland, Germany (Nordhorn Guitar Festival), England, France, Spain (Villa Navas de San Juan International Festival in Madrid), the Balearic Islands (Festival de Palma de Mallorca), Portugal (Palacio Real de Lisboa and University of Coimbra), Sweden (Vivaldi Festival), Norway, Denmark, Finland (where Ciccarese became the first Italian musician to perform north of the Finnish Arctic Circle), Romania (Sala Enescu in Bucarest and Settimana Internazionale della Musica Italiana in Craiova), Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland (Szymanowski Music Days in Krakow), Russia, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo (ReMusica Festival), Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

Warmly acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, in recent years he has laid out and accomplished even more ambitious achievements: after his appearance at the Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2012, he gave a solo performance at the Kursk Festival, accompanied by the Russian Chamber Orchestra, and executed the entire unabridged version of the Musical Offering by J. S. Bach alongside some of Russia’s top-tier musicians in the White Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

However, Ciccarese’s career has not been limited to classical music – in recent years, as part of the ‘Rock in Frac’ ensemble, he has presented a repertoire inspired by the Italian progressive rock scene (New Trolls’ Concerti Grossi and Premiata Forneria Marconi’s musical, Dracula). As part of his parallel career as a music teacher, Ciccarese has run courses, musical workshops, and acclaimed masterclasses in Italy, Mexico, and the Balkans. In the coming years, he will be performing at a number of concerts in several countries: Ireland, Greece, Thailand, Korea, Finland, Chile, and Peru

Concert performer and director of Music Institute “A. Masini” in Forlì Pierluigi Di Tella has been carrying on a careful and accurate musical research based on the valorisation of unusual and original repertoires; the pianist favours the sharing of music contents of the repertoires that he faces with his hearers interacting with them in an immediate and direct way. His concert career has led him to perform in Italy, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil, Bulgaria, Kosovo and as a soloist in various orchestras including the Philharmonic National Orchestra of the Republic of Vltava, the Chamber Orchestra of the Academy of Tirana, the Ukrainian Symphony Orchestra of Kiev, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau, the ProArte Orchestra Marche, the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Parma, the State Orchestra of Vidin etc. .As a chamber musician he collaborated with the prestigious “Quartetto di Cremona”, The Instrumentalists of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan”, the “Quintet at breakneck speed”; Paolo Carlini, Alessandro Serra and Giuseppe Ettorre (first contrabasses of the Teatro alla Scala). He was pianist in master classes held by Julius Baker, Diego Dini Ciacci, Paolo Carlini; he has been collaborating in summer advanced courses held in Bertinoro by Alessandro Serra and Giuseppe Ettorre. He has won numerous national and international competitions holds piano master class and has often been jury member in piano competitions. He has made several recordings and, for the historic publishing house Carrara, in Bergamo, he coordinates the teaching series in 12 volumes plus CD titled the “Library of the young pianist”. Graduated with honours from the Conservatory “GB Martini” in Bologna he attended further training courses in Italy and abroad with internationally renowned musicians but crucial to his training was the study with Massimo Neri, Sergio Fiorentino and with Gilbert Cook at the “Ecole Supérieure de Piano” in Switzerland for the high refinement of the technique.He teaches at the Music Conservatory “G. Rossini” in Pesaro and at the Music Institute “A. Masini” in Forlì

The Clarion Winds, founded in 2013 includes members: Ishbel Corcoran, Ellen Fay, Katie Kelly, Martha Knight, Tommy Mulligan, Tara O’Brien, and Jennifer O’Donovan, (all current or former students of Julie Maisel). The ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Maisel, rehearses once a month and many of the members are involved in various other musical groups in their schools and communities. The Clarion Winds performed in the 2014, 2018, 2019 and 2020 ESB Feis Ceoil Senior Chamber Music Competitions. In 2014 and 2017 they received first place in the Newpark Music Festival. In December 2016 and 2019 they were featured on the Annual Christmas Concert for the Nás na Ri Singers. Over the past several years they have performed for Charity Balls, for the European Chamber Music Teachers Association Annual Meeting, for the “Five Lamps Arts Festival,” and in March 2017 they performed prior to the Irish Youth Association Annual Concert in the National Concert Hall in Dublin. In May 2019 they were the featured guest ensemble at both the Opening Concert and the Prizewinners Concert for the Castleknock Music Festival and are excited to be playing again this year in at the Closing Concert 2022. They performed in September 2019 on the ESB Feis Ceoil Young Artist Platform Concert Series in the John Field Room of the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

The Clarion Winds are honoured to have been chosen to perform at the 2022 Flute Ensemble Festival of the 50th Anniversary National Flute Association Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Julie Maisel, founder and director of the Clarion Winds, has been a lecturer in flute at the TU Dublin Conservatoire since 2005.