Mara Galassi
Mara Galassi (born in Milan in 1956) is harpist,[1] musicologist and recording artist[2] specializing in the music for Early harps,[3] including Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque, in particular double (cross-strung) and triple harps of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, as well as Classical era single-action pedal harps.[4]
She holds degrees from Pesaro Conservatory of Music and the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan. She studied historical performance practice under harpsichordist David Collyer in Amsterdam, lutenist Patrick O'Brien in New York and musicology with Michael Morrow in London.
She currently resides in Milan where she is a professor of modern and historical harps at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. She is also a founding member of the Historical Harp Society.[5]
Mara Galassi is active as a soloist, as well as a member of such noted early music Ensembles in Europe as Hesperion XX (dir. Jordi Savall), Concerto Soave,[6] Concerto Vocale (dir. René Jacobs), Concerto Italiano (dir. Rinaldo Alessandrini), Mala Punica (dir. Pedro Memelsdorff), Cantus Cölln (dir. Konrad Junghänel).
As musicologist she has done extensive research in the field of historical harps. She recorded for Tactus, Symphonia, Ricordi, Harmonia Mundi, Opus 111 and Glossa. Her CD "Il Viaggio di Lucrezia" won the “Cannes Award” and “Choc de la Musique” awards.[7]
Filmography
VOLUPTAS DOLENDI: I Gesti del Caravaggio (а film by Francesco Vitali, with Mara Galassi & Deda Cristina Colonna)[8][9][10]
Discography
- Il Viaggio Di Lucrezia: Solo Harp - Mara Galassi (Glossa CD ASIN: B000047988)
- G.F.Handel: Microcosm Concerto (Label: PID ASIN: B002USOVQO)
- Gabriela Bosio & Mara Galassi: Les Harpes du Ciel
- Domenico Cimarosa: Salon de femmes in Saint Petersburg, Opus III: OP30299 Release Date: 10-Sep-2001
References
- ^ http://yle.fi/radio1/musiikki/konsertteja/gambojen_melankolinen_sointi_31348.html
- ^ http://www.harpmasters.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=134&lang=iso-8859-1
- ^ http://www.esmuc.cat/esmuc_digital/Departaments/Musica-Antiga/Professorat-Assignatures/Mara-Galassi
- ^ www.glossamusic.com/glossa/artist.aspx?id=22
- ^ http://www.esmuc.cat/esmuc_digital/Departaments/Musica-Antiga/Professorat-Assignatures/Mara-Galassi
- ^ http://www.concerto-soave.com/artistes/galassi.html
- ^ http://www.residenzerealilombarde.it/uploads/files/Anamorphosis_Musicae_-_MONZA.pdf
- ^ "MUSICA" novembre 2010 p.92 (recensione DVD) e p.31 (proiezioni all'Ambrosiana)
- ^ http://catacoustic.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-with-francesco-vitali.html
- ^ http://www.fondazionecsc.it/events_detail.jsp?IDAREA=9&ID_EVENT=346>EMPLATE=events.jsp
- http://polyhymnion.org/mus/galassi
- http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/11147.php
- http://www.glossamusic.com/artists/mgalassi.htm
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