Chieti • Italy
Orchestra:
AYSO orchestra (Italy)
Conductor:
Satalino
conductor (Italy)
Soloists:
Alogna
violin (Italy)
Programme
W. A. Mozart:
Violin Concerto No. 5
W. A. Mozart:
Symphony No. 29
Teresa Satalino
Conductor
Teresa Satalino graduated very young in piano with the highest grades and continued her academic education with full marks in Composition, as well as in Orchestra Conducting, in Jazz Music and Music Teaching. Simultaneously with his musical studies he graduated in Literature with full marks and a thesis in History of Music on Laborintus II by Luciano Berio. She won numerous prizes in national piano competitions and in 2003 was selected for Bacchette in Rosa, a training course funded by the Ministry of Labor with internships at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. She then obtained a Master's degree in High School of Conducting studying with Jorma Panula, Bruno Bartoletti, Lu-Jia, Alain Lombard, Donato Renzetti and Piero Bellugi. She specialized in Jazz Arrangement and Composition in Siena Jazz and attended the Music for Film course with Ennio Morricone at the Chigiana Academy of Siena.
From 2018 he is Principal Director of AYSO, Apulian Youth Symphony Orchestra composed of about 70 musicians.
She has conducted concerts collaborating with Nir Kabaretti, musical director of the Santa Barbara Symphony, with the German violinist Gernot Süßmuth, Concertmaster of the Oregon Bach Festival and Intendente of the Nordrhein-Westfalen Festival Westfalen Classic, with cellist Jelena Ocic, professor at the Conservatorium in Amsterdam, with the first viola of the Berlin Staatskapelle, Felix Schwartz, with Luca Benucci, first horn of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with the Brasses of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Mario Barsotti, Gabriele Malloggi, Fabiano Fiorenzani, Claudio Quintavalla, Emanuele Antoniucci, Alberto Serpente, Michele Canori, Simone Squarzolo, Nicola Martelli, Paolo Masi) and with the first trumpet of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Omar Tomasoni. She conducted 12 soloists and symphony orchestra at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the world premiere of Francesco Traversi's The Gret Leap composition under the patronage of the Italian Space Agency. She was Director of the first Italian performance of Ayre, an extraordinary cycle of folksongs by the Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov with material from Arab, Jewish and Sephardic backgrounds with concerts also for the Time Zones Festival and for Matera Capital of Culture.
The German composer Michael Sens also entrusted her with the orchestra's leadership in the first world performance of one of his compositions.
She has been conducting in International Festivals such as the Italian Brass Week, the Walton Foundation International Festival, the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Florence, the Napoli Teatro Festival, the Festival of contemporary music UrtiCanti, the International Festival Carl Orff, the Ritratti Festival.
She has collaborated with the CMC Orchestra of New York.
She has directed shows with interaction between various media (music, dance, graphic arts, actors), collaborating, among others, with Miriam Makeba, Arnoldo Foà, Beppe Barra and with the dance company ResExtensa. She conceived and directed the Apulia project which debuted in Prague in the historic Sala Smetana and which has also been replicated in several Italian theaters.
At the same time he dedicated herself to teaching. She is currently a Professor at the "N.Rota" Conservatory of Monopoli (BA).
Davide Alogna
Violin
Davide Alogna is an Italian violinist known for his diverse and international musical background. Born in Palermo, he graduated with honors in both violin and piano from the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Como. He furthered his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, earning a “Premier Prix à l’Unanimité” in solo violin and chamber music. Additionally, he studied composition at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena under Giuliano Carmignola, who praised him as “a great and extraordinary talent.”
Alogna regularly performs as a soloist in prestigious venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall (Stern Hall) in New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Berliner Philharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Smetana Hall in Prague, Grand Theatre in Shanghai, Salle Cortot in Paris, Gasteig and Herkulesalle in Munich, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Dubai Opera, Cairo Opera House, Mahidol Hall in Bangkok, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, and Auditorium Verdi in Milan.
Throughout his career, he has collaborated with esteemed orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Sinfonica di Milano (formerly LaVerdi), Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, i Cameristi and i Musici del Teatro alla Scala, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Sinfonica Metropolitana di Bari, Sinfonica di Sanremo, Archi dell’ORT, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Thailand Philharmonic, Luxembourg Philharmonia, Chamber Orchestra of New York, North Czech Philharmonic, Porto Alegre Symphony, Armenian State Orchestra, Filarmonica Tama di Tokyo, Cairo Symphony, among others.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Alogna has performed alongside notable artists including Natalia Gutman, Èlisso Virsaladze, Enrico Pace, Bruno Canino, Jeffrey Swann, Roberto Prosseda, Andrea Bacchetti, Simonide Braconi, Èliau Inbal, Pietro Borgonovo, Miran Vaupotic, Francesco Lanzillotta, Lior Shambadal, and Giulio Tampalini.
Featured multiple times as a “cover artist” in leading music magazines such as Suonare News and Amadeus, he has recorded for prestigious labels including Warner Classics, Brillant Classics, and Naxos. The international magazine “STRAD” recently dedicated an article to his solo CD, “Symphonic Stradivarius,” accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra for Navona Records.
Alogna is actively involved in researching, rediscovering, and promoting 20th-century Italian repertoire through national and world premieres. He serves as a reviser for Edizioni Curci and Casa Ricordi. His efforts have revived works by composers such as Respighi, Fano, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Margola, and Wolf-Ferrari. Notably, in 2018, he was selected by Curci and CIDIM to revise three unpublished violin pieces by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, also recording their world premiere for Naxos. In 2021, his revision of Respighi’s Violin Concerto in A minor P.75 was published by Casa Ricordi and recorded with the Chamber Orchestra of New York for Naxos.
In 2021, Alogna collaborated with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano to record all violin concertos, the violin-piano double concerto, and Franco Margola’s first sonata, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the composer’s death.
Awarded in various national and international competitions, he received the first prize at the “Prix d’Interprétation Musicale” at la Cité Universitaire de Paris and the INAEM of Spain in 2009. In 2010, the Municipality of Milan honored him with the “Premio all’Eccellenza nella Musica.” He was also invited to perform for President Mattarella during his visit to Milan in 2021.
Alogna has shared the stage with actors such as Laura Morante, Claudio Santamaria, Sergio Rubini, Violante Placido, and Marco Bocci in solo performances across Italy’s most prestigious theatres. Since 2023, he has served as the resident soloist with I Musici del Teatro alla Scala di Milano.
He initiated the “Progetto Rode,” supported by CIDIM and Suonare News, bringing together 24 Italian violinists during the COVID-19 pandemic to record renowned études, aimed at conservatory students worldwide.
Since 2013, Alogna has been the Artistic Director of the Comoclassica Festival, an international event featuring prominent artists and orchestras such as Enrico Bronzi, Kirill Rodin, Ingolf Turban, Enrico Pace, Otto Sauter, Giuseppe Andaloro, Bruno Canino, Giuseppe Gibboni, Simonide Braconi, Roberto Prosseda, Giulio Tampalini, Filarmonica Toscanini, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Archi dell’Orchestra della Toscana (ORT), and i Cameristi della Scala di Milano.
He has also served as the Artistic Director of the Humanities Festival and its musical event “Limiti, la Notte della Musica” in 2023 for the Villa del Grumello association. In 2025, he will assume the role of Artistic Director for the Barock Festival in Piazza Armerina.
Recently, he was appointed as an “Honorary Member” of the Archivio Musicale Guido Alberto Fano ONLUS.
Alogna holds the position of Professor of Violin at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Como and has previously taught at the IMÈP Institute Royal Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur, Belgium.
He performs on a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume violin (Paris, 1871) and an Anselmo Gotti violin (Ferrara, 1930).
AYSO orchestra
Italy
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.
AYSO also proudly represented Italy by collaborating with the Italian Cultural Institutes and the Italian Embassies in Prague and Vienna and by performing in the concert hall of the Prague Conservatory, one of the oldest in Europe, and in Metternich Palace, seat of the Italian Embassy in Vienna.
AYSO inaugurated 2023 with an important concert conducted by Maestro Teresa Satalino at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari for the Concerti del Mattino season organised by the Petruzzelli Foundation, gaining great success with the public and critics.
In 2022 OrchestrAcademy received the prestigious recognition of the Ministry of Culture by being included, with the AYSO Young Soloists project, in the instrumental ensemble section of the FUS (Fondo Unico per lo Spettacolo).
OrchestrAcademy has started a fruitful collaboration with the Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Territorial Development of the Region of Puglia with a series of activities at the Kursaal Santalucia Theatre in Bari, which has become a precious sound casket, hosting masterclasses with big names from the international classical music scene, concerts and training activities for young audiences. AYSO Orchestra turned out to be the only youth orchestra eligible for the Expression of Interest called by the Region of Apulia
with Executive Determination no. 45 of 17/03/2023 - Regional Law no. 32 of 29 December 2022, art. 64 entitled "Contribution to Apulian Youth Symphony Orchestras".
The Orchestra played for the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague and Vienna and at the Metternich Palace for a concert in cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Vienna. AYSO played at the Teatro Sociale in Como; for the International Festival organised by the Walton Foundation in Ischia; it was a guest of the Napoli Teatro Festival playing at the Palazzo Reale. The orchestra inaugurated the Italian Brass Week at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino performing with the brass soloists of the Maggio in a world premiere under the
patronage of the Italian Space Agency and also collaborated with the CMC Orchestra of New York.
The OrchestrAcademy Association was the winner of the Puglia Sounds Producers 2021 and 2022 calls for proposals with the projects OrchestrAzione and Vita da leggio (directed by Alessandro Piva). The Orchestra has collaborated on several occasions with the Fondazione Nuovo Teatro Verdi in Brindisi and the Direzione Generale Musei della Puglia, with concerts held at the Castello Svevo in Bari. For two consecutive years, with the projects OrchestrAcademy Lab and OrchestrAcademy Lab_Pro Ukraine, it was one of the winners of the 'Orizzonti solidali' (Solidarity Horizons) call for proposals of the Megamark Foundation. The Classica4Youth project 2021 was sponsored by the Presidency of the Regional Council with the support of the Guarantor of the Rights of the Child of the Region of Puglia.