Stefano---------------Francesco-------------Alessandro
The AlbatrosEnsemble is a group that has been active on the national and international concert scene since 1990 and which has established itself by the particularity of the ensemble, the refinement of the repertoire, the emotional force of its interpretations which, according to the music critic of the Swiss newspaper Le Quotidien de La Côte, are capable of producing “authentic coups de coeur” in listeners through their ability to combine “nuances and magical atmospheres, sometimes melancholy, sometimes vigorous”. In addition to the public and critical praise that the ensemble has to its credit, there are also glowing judgements from important composers like Ivan Fedele, who considers the Albatros Ensemble to be “one of the most important realities of the young Italian Chamber Music scene” or Andrew Frank, who has said of the group: “Technically the Albatros is perfection, a marvellous ensemble”. Interest in twentieth century and contemporary music has led the ensemble to collaborate with numerous composers, among whom we note Rocco Abate, Alessandro Annunziata, Bruno Bettinelli, Luciano Chailly, Fabrizio Festa, Simone Fontanelli, Andrew Frank, Giorgio Gaslini, Delilah Gutman, Antonio Iafigliola, Luca Mosca, Flavio Emilio Scogna, Alessandro Solbiati, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Alessandro Timossi, Adeline Wong and Danuta Zankowska. The Albatros has an intense concert programme, collaborating with the most prestigious Italian and international musical associations as well as with Italian Culture Institutes. It has toured in Chile, Britain, Peru, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Turkey, and it has performed in theatres and concert halls of note such as the Pump Room in Bath, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James, Piccadilly in London, the Sala Enescu in Bucharest, the Federico II University of Val Paraiso Theatre, Rancagua Municipal Auditorium, the Sala America in Santiago (Chile), the Canneti Auditorium and Sala Palladio in Vicenza, the Capitoline Museums-Capitoline Hill, the Pauline Chapel-Quirinal Palace, La Sapienza University, the Casa del Jazz in Rome, the Auditorium di Milano, the Teatro Raimondi, the Ricardo Palma and Cayetano Heredia Universities in Lima, the San Augustin University in Arequipa, the Small Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, the Shuvalovsky Palace, and the Composers’ House and the famous “Stray Dog” artists’ club in St. Petersburg, etc. It has taken part in innumerabile festivals (Imago Sloveniae, Settimane Musicali di Lugano, Itinerafestival, Festival “Italia on Italianskaya” Str. Petherof’s, etc). It has also collaborated with CEMAT on the Sonora project. The ensemble has been the guest of many RAI radio and television programmes, of the fifth channel of Russian television, of Canale 2 of the RTSI and of other public and private broadcasters. Among its forthcoming engagements, tours are foreseen of the USA, South America and Russia, besides concerts for prestigious Italian and European associations.