ARIOSI MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE OPERA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT FRANCESCO IVAN CIAMPA Conductor "... Measured and precise gesture, all-encompassing look around, aware of tradition and authentic nature, not only musical but professional: lead an aria such as -Caro nome-, or the terrible Quartet, is nothing more difficult than conducting the nine symphonies and he does it masterfully. " (Paolo Isotta "Corriere della Sera", February 25th, 2014) Ivan Francesco Ciampa born in 1982 in Avellino, young graduated in orchestra conducting at the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome with Maestro Bruno Aprea, in composition with Maestro Giacomo Vitale and band instrumentation at the "D. Cimarosa" Conservatory in Avellino. He also graduated in Cultural Heritage and Conservation. He continues perfected in orchestral conducting with the major national and international music schools and academies, such as: - Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Carlo Maria Giulini (1999) and with Gianluigi Gelmetti (2008) - Fundacion Eutherpe (Spain) with Bruno Aprea - Academy of Music in Stresa with Gianandrea Noseda (2006 and 2009) - Scuola di Musica in Fiesole with Gabriele Ferro (2008) - "I Pomeriggi Musicali" Foundation with Jorma Panula (2008) Winner of the "National Prize of the Arts" 2010/2011 edition - Conducting Section- Commission chaired by Maestro Piero Bellugi. Winner of the First National Competition for Conducting banned from MIUR in collaboration with the Vicariate of Rome where he conducted the Orchestra of Italian Conservatives for the Christmas Concert in honor of Pope Benedict XVI by performing Schubert’s Symphony no. 8 Winner of the bursary (2007) for the V Master Course for Pianists and Conductors in Leon (Spain). He has been Music Director on Stage and assistant of Maestro Daniel Oren at Teatro G. Verdi in Salerno from 2008 to 2012, a period during which he also attended various opera productions in other important theaters such as the Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and at the Arena di Verona for the opening of the 90th Festival 2012 with Mozart’s "Don Giovanni". In the last three years he conducted opera and symphony productions of national and international festivals such as: Opera Bastille - Paris: "La Traviata", acclaimed production with Diana Damrau, Ludovic Tezier and Francesco De Muro, live broadcasted in cinemas around the world; Teatro La Fenice- Venice: the famous and successful production of "La Traviata" directed by Robert Carsen; Teatro Colon- Buenos Aires: acclaimed production of "L'elisir d'amore" in April 2015, directed by Sergio Renan; The Israeli Opera - Tel Aviv: new production of "Nabucco", with great success for audience and critics; Herkulessaal- Munich: Concert with Diana Damrau and Munchner Rundfunkorchester; National Theatre of Astana - Kazakhstan: the magical Traviata of mirrors by Svoboda / Brockhaus; Teatro Regio- Parma: -Verdi Festival 2012: "Rigoletto" (Leo Nucci, Jessica Pratt); -Lyric Opera season 2013: "Un ballo in maschera" and "Nabucco"; ARIOSI MANAGEMENT SAGL VIA AL LIDO, 9 CH - 6817 MAROGGIA - WWW.ARIOSIMANAGEMENT.COM - [email protected] NUMERO IVA: CHE-458.723.402 IVA - TELEFONO: 0041 91 649 53 31 - FAX: 0041 91 649 53 32 ARIOSI MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE OPERA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT - Verdi Festival 2013: Concert for the Bicentennial of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi and "I Masnadieri" (Broadcasted by Rai Tre with "Prima della Prima"); -Lyric Opera season 2014: Opening with "Pagliacci" and "Gianni Schicchi". Palacio Euskalduna - Bilbao: "Attila" with Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, directed by Ruggero Raimondi. Teatro Giuseppe Verdi - Salerno: "Rigoletto" and "Otello" (with Gregory Kunde and Dimitra Theodossiou), as part of the opera season in 2013 and 2014 and broadcast by Rai Tre in "Prima della Prima" as well as "Turandot" (with Lise Lindstrom and Vladimir Galouzine). Teatro Municipale of Piacenza and Teatro L.Pavarotti in Modena: the successful and extraordinary production of "Simon Boccanegra" with artists such as Leo Nucci, Fabio Sartori and Carlo Colombara, directed by Riccardo Canessa. Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago: "Turandot" (with Giovanna Casolla) as part of the opera season in 2013; Smetana Hall - Prague: Concert with Sonya Yoncheva and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also invited as Conductor in important Opera houses such as the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, the Auditorium Ciudad de Leon, the Teatro Cilea in Reggio Calabria, the Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, the Reggia di Caserta’s Court Theatre, the Roman Theatre in Benevento, the Teatro Comunale in Ragusa, Teatro Mario del Monaco in Treviso, Suita May Theatre in Osaka, etc. He conducted the most prestigious orchestras in Italy and abroad always enjoying success of audience and critics; among all we mention: Orchestra National de Paris; Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Orchestra of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; Orchestra Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma; Philharmonic Orchestra of Emilia Romagna; The Puccini Festival Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana; Orchestra of the Suita May Theatre in Osaka; Orchestra of the Royal Northen College of Music in Manchester; Italian Youth Orchestra; I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra; Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro F. Cilea of Reggio Calabria; Orchestra of the Music Conservatory in Santa Cecilia; Orchestra I Solisti di Napoli; Symphony Orchestra of Valencia; Orquesta Joven de Andalucia; Extremadura Symphony Orchestra; Symphony Orchestra of Bacau; Orchestra of the Italian conservatories; Orchestra Domenico Cimarosa; Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari; Orchestra Umberto Giordano; Symphony Orchestra of Shumen; Orchestra of Radio Television in Moldova; Symphony Orchestra of Sofia; Opera Orchestra of Stara Zagora; Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi. He worked with great directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Lamberto Puggelli, Leo Moss, Federico Grazzini, Maurizio Scaparro, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Gigi Proietti, Riccardo Canessa, as well as with singers like Leo Nucci, Renato Bruson, Diana Damrau, Sonya Yoncheva, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Dimitra Theodossiu, Jessica Pratt, Roberto Aronica, Sergio Frontali, Giovanna Casolla, Marcello Giordani, Kristin Lewis, Carmen Giannattasio, Michele Pertusi, Piero Pretti, Luca Salsi, Anna Pirozzi, Desiree Rancatore, Fabio Sartori, Carlo Colombara etc. He’s teacher of Orchestral Training at the “Nicola Sala” Conservatory in Benevento. In 2009 he founded with director Emanuele Di Muro "Laboratorio Lirico / Orchestrale" creating a close collaboration with the International Festival "Benevento Entertainment". The first work was in 2009 with "Prima la musica e poi le Parole" by A. Salieri. In 2010 he staged the opera "L’Italiana in Londra" by D. Cimarosa at the Teatro Comunale in Benevento and at the Teatro Bibiena of Mantua, thanks to which the “Nicola Sala” Conservatory in Benevento awarded the second edition of the International Prize "Domenico Cimarosa" in Aversa. In 2011 he conducted "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" by G. Rossini at the Teatro Comunale in Benevento and later in the magnificent Royal Theatre inside Reggia di Caserta, in 2012 "L'Elisir d'amore" by G. Donizetti at the prestigious Roman Theatre in Benevento. In 2013 the laboratory staged "La Boheme" by Puccini at the Roman Theatre in Benevento and at the Teatro Carlo Gesualdo in Avellino. Assistant of Maestro Antonio Pappano for the annual review "Memorial Pappano" at Castelfranco ARIOSI MANAGEMENT SAGL VIA AL LIDO, 9 CH - 6817 MAROGGIA - WWW.ARIOSIMANAGEMENT.COM - [email protected] NUMERO IVA: CHE-458.723.402 IVA - TELEFONO: 0041 91 649 53 31 - FAX: 0041 91 649 53 32 ARIOSI MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE OPERA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT in Miscano (Bn) with the Orchestra of the “Nicola Sala” Conservatory in Benevento. Among the future plans, we mention another great production of "Madame Butterfly" directed by Renzo Giacchieri and that will bring him back, after the success of "Turandot" in 2013, at the 61st edition of the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. In Turin-Teatro Regio- he will direct a production of "La Traviata" as part of Expo 2015, "Macbeth" in Piacenza with Leo Nucci and the debut in the conduction of "Nabucco" for prestigious Opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and Teatro Perez Galdos in Las Palmas. June 2015 "... I feel the responsibility to make the composer's musical thought, I study, I pledge to be a link between the past and the present, to return alive the magic of a music genius " Francesco Ivan Ciampa (Lucilla Niccolini, "Corriere Adriatico", February 15th, 2014) ARIOSI MANAGEMENT SAGL VIA AL LIDO, 9 CH - 6817 MAROGGIA - WWW.ARIOSIMANAGEMENT.COM - [email protected] NUMERO IVA: CHE-458.723.402 IVA - TELEFONO: 0041 91 649 53 31 - FAX: 0041 91 649 53 32 .