Trio Di Parma Italy
The Trio di Parma – Alberto Miodini (piano), Ivan Rabaglia (violin) e Enrico Bronzi (cello) – was formed in 1990 at the A. Boito Conservatory of Music in Parma, Italy, and went on to further studies with the Trio di Trieste at the Fiesole School of Music in Florence and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. In 2000 the Trio was invited to participate in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in New York.
The Trio di Parma has won for itself the highest acclaim at the Concorso Internazionale “Vittorio Gui” in Florence, Italy, as well as the International chamber music Competitions of Melbourne (Australia), ARD Munich (Germany) and Lyon (France). In 1994, the Trio was awarded the Abbiati Prize by the Italian National Association of Music Critics as best chamber music ensemble. The Trio di Parma has been a guest of the most important musical institutions both at home in Italy (Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, Societá del Quartetto in Milan, Amici della Musica in Florence, Unione Musicale in Turin, Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venice, GOG in Genoa, Accademia Filarmonica Romana) and in other countries (Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, London’s Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus of Vienna, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Lockenhaus Festival, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Barossa Music Festival, Lyon, Hamburg, Dublin, Warsaw, Los Angeles, Washington, Adelaide, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo).
It has collaborated with important musicians such as Vladimir Delman, Carl Melles, Pavel Vernikov, Bruno Giuranna, Alessandro Carbonare, Eduard Brunner and has taken part in numerous TV and radio recordings for the Italian state network RAI as well as various foreign stations (Bayerischer Rundfunk, NDR, WDR, MDR, Radio Bremen, ORT, ABC-Classic Australia). They have also recorded the complete Trios of Beethoven, Schubert (Decca), Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Pizzetti e Shostakovich, as well as the chamber music for trio of Pizzetti, Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
Trio di Parma holds instrumental and chamber music courses at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Conservatory of Music in Parma and Fondazione Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro.
Ivan Rabaglia plays a violin Giuseppe Baldantoni made in Ancona in 1850 and Enrico Bronzi plays a cello Vincenzo Panormo made in London in 1775.
IVAN RABAGLIA
Ivan Rabaglia, born in 1971, has been the violinist of the Trio di Parma since its foundation in 1990. He graduated with top marks, cum laude and honorable mention from the “A. Boito” Conservatory of his city and perfected his skills with Franco Gulli, Stefan Gheorghiu, Giuliano Carmignola, Pavel Vernikov, Ilya Grubert, Zinaida Gilels, the Trio di Trieste (Dario De Rosa, Renato Zanettovich, Amedeo Baldovino) and with Isaac Stern at the Chamber Music Workshop in New York.
Together with his colleagues of the Trio, Alberto Miodini and Enrico Bronzi, he won the 1st prize at the 16th Vittorio Gui International Competition in Florence in 1992, the 2nd prize at the 2nd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 1995, the 2nd prize at the 47th Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD München in 1998 (1st not awarded), the 1st prize at the 1st Concours International du Musique de Chambre de Lyon in 2004 and was awarded the “Abbiati” prize by the Italian music critics in 1994.
The activity carried out with the Trio has led Ivan Rabaglia to play for the most important Italian and foreign musical institutions: Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, Società del Quartetto in Milan, Amici della Musica in Florence, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Unione Musicale in Turin, Amici della Musica in Palermo, Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle Molière in Lyon, Performance Arts Center in Moscow, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and international festivals including Lockenhaus (Austria), Luzern (Switzerland), Melbourne (Australia), Sligo (Ireland), Lake District (England), Bad Kissingen (Germany), Cartagena (Colombia), Orta and Portogruaro (Italy).
He has played with illustrious musicians including Bruno Giuranna, Simonide Braconi, Simone Briatore, Alessandro Carbonare, Fabrizio Meloni, Eduard Brunner, Guglielmo Pellarin, Wolfgang Holzmair and as a soloist with conductors such as Vladimir Delman, Angelo Campori, Carl Melles, Franco Petracchi, Hubert Soudant and Anton Nanut.
In addition to numerous radio recordings for the most important Italian, English, German, American and Australian broadcasters, his recording activity includes the complete Brahms Trios and Op. 65 by Dvořák for UNICEF, the complete trios and the Triple Concerto by Beethoven, the Trio and Sonatas by Ravel, the sonata and the guitar trio by Giuliani for the magazine Amadeus, the world premiere recording of the quartets by De Fossa, the Histoire du Tango by Piazzolla, the Trios and Romances by Shostakovich for the Stradivarius label with which he won the award for best album of the year 2008 by the magazine Classic Voice, the complete trio works by Pizzetti, Liszt, Schumann and Dvorak for the Concerto label, Schubert for Decca and the Tchaikovsky trio, live recording at the Wigmore Hall in London, for the Movimento Classical label.
He has taught chamber music at the International School of the Trio di Trieste in Duino and at the School of Fiesole. Already a violin professor at the “Vecchi-Tonelli” Music Institute in Modena, he continued his teaching activity at the “Guido Cantelli” Conservatory in Novara, at the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory in Parma and currently at the “Santa Cecilia” National Academy in Rome. In addition to this prestigious position, he holds courses and masterclasses at the Academies of Biella, Pinerolo and Portogruaro. He plays a Giuseppe Baldantoni violin built in Ancona in 1850.
ENRICO BRONZI
Cellist and conductor, he was born in Parma in 1973.
In 1990 he founded the Trio di Parma, with which he played in the most important concert halls in Europe, the USA, South America and Australia (Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Cologne Philharmonic, Munich Herkulessaal, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires). With this formation he established himself in international competitions in Florence, Melbourne, Lyon and Munich, also receiving the Abbiati Prize from Italian music critics.
Since 2001, following his success at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris and his victory at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, where he also received the prize for the best performance of the Dvorák concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic, he began an intense solo activity.
He regularly participates in numerous festivals, including: Lucerna, Kronberg, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Melbourne, Turku, Naantali, Stresa, Ravenna, Lockenhaus.
His activity has led him to collaborate with great artists such as Martha Argerich, Alexander Lonquich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, Wolfram Christ, Joshua Bell, Stefan Milenkovich and groups such as the Hagen Quartet, the Kremerata Baltica and the Giardino Armonico.
He has played as a soloist under the guidance of Claudio Abbado, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Berglund, Frans Brüggen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tan Dun, Reinhard Goebel. He followed Jorma Panula's conducting lessons and is a guest of numerous ensembles, including the Mozart Orchestra (at the invitation of Claudio Abbado), Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, the Chamber Orchestra of Mantua, the Haydn Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Virtuosi Italiani, the Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Sinfonica della Val d'Aosta, the Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2007 he has been a professor at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
Among his recordings, in addition to the vast production with the Trio di Parma (Decca), there are all the concerts by Boccherini (Brilliant Classics), the concerts by C. P. E. Bach (Amadeus), a monographic disc on Nino Rota, the Sonatas of Geminiani (Concerto) and the complete Bach Suites (Fregoli Music) which was in second place in the top ten of classical music albums on the iTunes Music Store.
Enrico Bronzi plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello from 1775. He has been involved in musical promotion since 2007, as Artistic Director of the Portogruaro Festival, of the Società dei Concerti di Trieste, of the Festival Nei Suoni dei Luoghi (Udine). It has organized cycles of concerts and festivals, placing the dialogue between music and different forms of human thought at the center of its conception, often through strong thematization and promoting events in the field of chamber and symphonic music, ethnomusicology, jazz, of ancient and contemporary music, of musical dissemination, to promote new talents and in favor of the very young public, also alongside protagonists from the world of culture and through a multidisciplinary vision.
Since 2018 he has been the artistic director of the Perugia Musica Classica Foundation, for which he is responsible for the programming of the Friends of Music of Perugia and the Sagra Musicale Umbra, alongside the close collaboration with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra.
ALBERTO MIODINI
He studied at the Parma Conservatory under the guidance of Roberto Cappello; subsequently, he continued his studies with Dario De Rosa, Trio di Trieste, Maureen Jones, Paul Badura-Skoda, Bruno Canino, Massimiliano Damerini.
He has been the pianist of the Trio di Parma since 1990. The group established themselves at the Chamber Music International Competitions in Florence, Munich, Melbourne and Lyon. In addition the Trio was awarded the Italian Critics’ Abbiati Prize in 1994.
He has performed for the most important musical institutions in Italy (Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome; Amici della Musica, Florence; Grand Theatre La Fenice, Venice; September Music, Turin; Società del Quartetto, Milan) and abroad (Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, KonzerthausWien, Salzburg Mozarteum, Lucerne and Lockenhaus Festivals, the Hamburg Musikhalle, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Colon Theatre Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Santiago in Chile, Warsaw, Dresden, Washington, Hong Kong…), collaborating with musicians such as Bruno Giuranna, Pavel Vernikov, Simonide Braconi, Wolfgang Holzmair, Alessandro Carbonare, Fabrizio Meloni, Eduard Brunner….
Further works with the Trio di Parma includes the complete recordings of the piano trios by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Schostakovich; he also records chamber-music by Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Rota and Pizzetti.
Besides playing with the Trio, he performs recitals as a soloist as well as with important orchestras such as the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, the Piano Festival Orchestra of Brescia and Bergamo, the Emilia Romagna Symphony Orchestra “Arturo Toscanini”, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, etc.
His repertoire ranges from Bach to Nono. He has recorded, for Brilliant Classics, a selections of Martucci’s Piano Works as well as Schubert’s Klavierstucke, Variations, Fantasies, Dances, Miniatures; in addition, Movimento Classical will present his recording of Brahms’s Klavierstucke.
He has made numerous recordings for radio and television for RAI (Italian), BayerischerRundfunk, NDR in Hamburg (German), BBC, ABC Classical Australia and other broadcasters.
Alberto Miodini is Chamber Music Professor at the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory of Music in Parma and holds master classes in piano and chamber music at the Santa Cecilia Foundation in Portogruaro and for the Pinerolo Academy of Music.