LA GIOVANE SCUOLA: PROTAGONISTS & ANTAGONISTS
SECOND EPISODE Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier
CONCERT PROGRAMME
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Macbeth Pietà, rispetto, amore Szymon Wach, baritone Marek Ruszczynski, piano
La traviata Dei miei bollenti spiriti Damien Noyce, tenor Marek Ruszczynski, piano
GIACOMO PUCCINI
La fanciulla del West Ch’ella mi creda Stefan Djokovic, tenor Marek Ruszczynski, piano
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier La mamma morta Janet Fischer, soprano Marek Ruszczynski, piano
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Alzira Eterna la memoria Szymon Wach, baritone Marek Ruszczynski, piano
FRANCESCO CILEA
L’Arlesiana Lamento di Federico Damien Noyce, tenor Marek Ruszczynski, piano
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier La nostra morte Janet Fischer, soprano Vasili Karpiak, tenor Marek Ruszczynski, piano
MASSIMO IANNONE Tenor Massimo Iannone studied piano and voice at Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella (Naples). He continued his studies with Maestro Ettore Campogalliani and Alfredo Kraus. Being a journalist and expert of opera, he collaborated with several magazines as reviewer and music critic. He debuted with “La maga Circe”, by Pasquale Anfossi, and his early career mainly focused on baroque repertoire. He soon joined Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome) and has been working there for over thirty years, performing with some of the greatest stars of the last decades. In 1995 Massimo Iannone and other members of Accademia di Santa Cecilia created “Voci Italiane”, a vocal ensemble with a vast range of scores, including the Neapolitan repertoire. He toured with this group across Central America, Latin America and most European capitals, and collaborated with Le Cirque du Soleil and artists such as Elton John.
MAREK RUSZCZYNSKI Marek Ruszczynski has given recitals across Europe in concert halls, including the Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Berlin Philharmonie and Musikverein. He has worked and performed under the tutelage of Marilyn Horne in the programme “The song continues” both in Carnegie Hall (New York) and at the Opéra Bastille (Paris). He received his formative musical education from Prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, in Gdansk (Poland), and at 19 he was awarded a prize from the Polish Ministry of Culture and Education for Musical Achievement, and a Gdansk and Brussels Rotary Club Prize for the Best Conservatorium Graduate in Northern Poland. He came to London a year later. Driven by a passion for vocal music, Marek acquired the skills of supporting opera singers, learning the craft from a number of distinguished artists, including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. During his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he was awarded the Gold Medal Accompanist Prize in both 2009 and 2011. Further success followed, when he won the “Prix de Piano” in the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Voice-Piano Competition 2012 (Paris). He has held a position of a vocal coach at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Supported by the Opera Awards Foundation, he trained as repetiteur at the National Opera Studio (London). In 2015 he worked as the language coach for the production of King Roger for the Royal Opera House (London) under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano. Marek Ruszczynski is a Samling Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and an alumnus of Académie Musicale de Villecroze, where he has been working as an accompanist for Teresa Berganza. Currently he is a member of the music staff at the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and he works as a vocal coach at the Royal Academy of Music and for the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation. Marek Ruszczynski has given masterclasses at the Trinity College of Music (London). He also works as a recitalist in Europe and the United States and sits in a jury of the Manhattan Voice Competition.