Orchestras

AYSO Orchestra is a youth orchestra permanently directed by Maestro Teresa Satalino. The musicians of AYSO come from all over Italy and attend OrchestrAcademy, an orchestral training academy that offers professional paths to support the careers of young musicians. OrchestrAcademy constitutes a valuable trait d'union between the system of High Artistic and Musical Education and the world of work in professional orchestras, as musicians are offered the precious opportunity to work with conductors and first-part musicians of major national and international orchestras. Founded with the aim of enhancing young Apulian talents, AYSO has become in just a few years a reference point in the field of youth orchestras, attracting musicians from all over Italy and now also musicians from abroad, becoming a national excellence.

AYSO guests included Luca Ranieri, Vincenzo Venneri, Andrea Corsi and Francesco Pomarico from the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, Silvia Careddu and Patrick Messina from the Orchestre National de France, Sandro Laffranchini, Danilo Rossi and Emanuele Urso from the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Carlo Parazzoli and Francesco Bossone from the Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, violinist Davide Alogna, violinist Marco Rizzi, international violist Anna Serova, Omar Tomasoni and Calogero Palermo from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Luca Vignali from the Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sergey Galaktionov, Vincent Lepape and Amedeo Cicchese from the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Domenico Zicari from the Orchestra del Teatro della Fenice, Antonio Bossone and Ermanno Calzolari from the Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo, Alex Elia, Roman Spitzer and Emanuele Silvestri from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Cecilia Radic from the Royal Academy of Manchester, Hakan Sensoy, principal conductor of the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra and Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, Nir Kabaretti from the Santa Barbara Symphony.

AYSO Orchestra recently triumphed for the second consecutive year at the prestigious Summa cum Laude International Competition in Vienna, winning over the international jury and winning first prize in the Youth Symphony Orchestra category. Outperforming competing orchestras from Taiwan, the United States and Spain, AYSO played in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, distinguishing itself for the quality of the performance, the attention to detail, and the great professionalism of the musicians and soloists. The Orchestra also performed in several theatres considered temples of classical music, such as the Smetana Hall in Prague, the Haydn Saal in the Esterhazy Palace and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, where the young musicians were honoured in the presence of orchestras from all over the world.

The Teatro Goldoni Orchestra established in 2020 from the main reference staff of the opera and symphonic seasons of the Theater has, over time, assumed connotations of stability, refinement and search for sonorities.

It represents a national and international point of reference for its Symphony Season and its productions such as Sheherazade by Rismky Korsakov performed for the first time in Livorno in November 2022 or Tchaikovsky's Symphony VI repeated 90 years after the first Italian performance conducted by Pietro Mascagni.

The artistic specificities of the orchestra are to be found in the Mascagnano, Pucciniano and Verdian opera repertoire. He actively participates every year in the Mascagni Festival in Livorno, giving new life to works by the composer from Livorno par excellence.

The conductors and soloists with whom the orchestra has collaborated have appreciated its dynamism and availability. The artists who have been able to appreciate it over time are: Anderson Dean, De Lorenzo Giancarlo, Fratta Gianna, Madaras Gergely, NG Wilson, Raskin Daniel, Smbatyan Sergey, Warner John, Blaumane Kristīna – Cellist, Brovtsyn Boris – Violinist, Cafaro Nicolò – Pianist, Chiacchiaretta Cesare – Bandoneonist, de Niese Danielle – Soprano, De Palma Dino – Violinist and Violist, Furia Fabio – Bandoneonist, Itamar Zorman – Violinist, Meloni Fabrizio – Clarinetist. Pellegrino Ettore – Violinist, Quaranta Salvatore – Violinist, Ruggiero Salvatore – Oboist, Semchuk Olexander – Violinist, Taverna Alessandro – Pianist, Yeol Eum Son – Pianist, Zhou Nancy – Violinist.

The Symphony Orchestra “Duchi d’Acquaviva” was formed in Atri in summer 2008 by the Association “Amici della Musica 2000”; the organic orchestra is formed of over 40 musicians, all residents in the Abruzzo region, who already have several years of professional activity in major orchestras.

In 15 years of activity the orchestra has held several concerts in various Italian regions. In addition to being the protagonist in August of the International Festival “Duchi d’Acquaviva” of Atri, every beginning of the year realizes the New Year’s Concert, proposing the famous Strauss waltz and the most famous overtures taken from the opera repertoire. The orchestra, which also takes concerts in the formation of chamber orchestra and string orchestra, collaborated with world famous soloists of international level which pianists Pasquale Iannone, Eugen Indjic, Nina Tichman and Yevgeni Moguilevski, violinists Ida Bieler, Oleksandr Semchuk and Marco Rogliano, cellists Ivan Monighetti, Maria Kliegel and Valentin Radutiu, flutists Angelo Persichilli and Andrea Oliva, bassoonist Valentino Zucchiatti, saxophonist Claude Delangle, guitarist Aniello Desiderio, etc.